JT Eaton Anticoagulant Rodenticide Bait Block for Mice and Rats, Made in USA, Peanut Butter Flavor, 9 lb Pail of 144 Blocks

Once rats have moved into your home or your chicken coop (or whatever) you have very few options to rid yourself of the infestation. The reason for this is that rats are super bright and cautious creatures. They have an excellent sense of smell and are keen observers of any food substance that makes their peers ill or brings about their death.They do not tend to jump on and devour whatever poison du jour you have to offer. Instead, they will wait a few days until your scent has worn off. Then a handful of them (probably the younger ones) will venture forth and take a nibble or two while the rest of the gang sits back and watches. When those adventuresome few soon grow ill followed shortly after by their death? All the other rats will immediately stop eating the poison and from then on, your traps will have become useless.I learned this the hard way having built and operated a chicken coop with thirty some chickens in it for several years. The rats soon moved into the coop, building tunnels and nests beneath the dirt floor. At night, they would emerge and help themselves to whatever grain the chickens had left them. In certain instances, when we would add baby chicks to the coop to try and increase our laying hen population, they would pounce on and devour the baby chicks.Over the years I fought and lost rat wars with those bastards using mechanical traps (all failed) and poison (also failed). The reasons for the failure are mentioned above. Rats as a population are very skeptical of anything new that comes into their environment - like traps. Once a few of their ilk venture forth to investigate and end up paying with their lives, the rest of the population will take heed and steer clear.What that means, in a nutshell, is that whatever method you choose to wipe out a rat infestation you have one shot and one shot only at ridding yourself of the problem - and that is by convincing the entire population to indulge themselves in your poisonous offerings all at once. Kill them all in short order or expect the survivors to learn from their peers mistakes and studiously avoid your traps from then on. Meanwhile, those survivors will go right back to breeding and multiplying and it will only be a matter of time before you're overrun with rats once again.Which brings me to why this JT Eaton 709-PN Bait Block is the way to go.After having a seriously rat infested chicken coop for over thirty years we finally decided we'd had enough of trying to raise our own chickens and got rid of the entire setup. What we didn't get rid of were the rats. Once the coop and their food supply was gone - they migrated a couple hundred yards up the hill and into our home. We discovered this when food items in our pantry were suddenly showing multiple signs of rat gnawing s and depredation. There were also visible signs of live rats running about when the lights were turned on.I ordered JT Eaton 709-PN Bait Block and a dozen traps to hold the poison and set about to go back to war again. Because this time I knew that it was all or nothing. A dozen traps may seem like overkill but, they and this marvelous rat killing bait did the trick. The ENTIRE rat population was wiped out!! This was over a year ago now and we haven't seen hide nor hair of a single rat in our home since! This stuff works!!Just remember - if you want to kill off a rat infestation - you have to kill them ALL AT ONCE (no survivors). So put out plenty of traps filled with this bait place them all around the area of the infestation and you won't be disappointed - we certainly weren't.

I have been finding mouse (rat?) poop on my kitchen counter and I can hear one behind my dryer that has been going in and out of the dryer vent. I bought traps that the mouse goes in so that I don't have to touch them. I can just pick up the thing and throw it away. it has a green brick of poison inside with a clear lid. NOTHING HAPPENED. I even paid $20 for the black plastic box that has a mousehole in it and you put batteries in it and it can zap 800 mice at a time and kills them instantly., The green light goes on when you have a mouse inside.Black zapping box did not work. Did not catch anything. I took the green bricks out of the black boxes with clear lids thinking maybe my mouse/rats are too big to get inside them. So since I had the green bricks. I just tore those boxes apart and put green bricks behind dryer and under kitchen sink where I had mouse droppings. To my amazement the green bricks are gone so they must be eating them. But didn't find anything dead.So I bought this big bucket of peanut butter flavored bricks mixed in with the green. I read all the comments and they all said they had success with them. DO NOT TOUCH THE BRICKS WITH YOUR HAND. Mice can sense human smell and will not go near it for a few days. So I wore doctor's latex gloves to put them out so my scent wouldn't be on them.I got a pail of 144 bricks in 2 days from Amazon. Last night I put a few bricks behind the dryer and a few under the sink. This morning, I had a dead rat halfway in and halfway out of my dryer vent. So I was correct that's how they were getting in. Removed rat -- and he was too big to fit in those silly little trap boxes. I put 4 more bricks outside the dryer vent so they can fill up on them before trying to enter the vent again and I put a bunch on the other side of the house where I think they're getting into the kitchen.I had no success with standard green bricks, or zapper boxes or the throw aways. USE THESE PEANUT BUTTER BRICKS. Overnight success!!! Now I'm curious to see how many more dead ones I'll find.Don't waste your money on the other ones. This stuff works fast and they love peanut butter.Good luck.THESE ARE POISON -- DO NOT PUT ANYWHERE DOGS OR OTHER ANIMALS CAN GET TO THEM.

works good. ordered more

Kills mice and rats, and seems to work pretty quickly. It's still an anticoagulant so it's not an overnight thing, but in 2-3 days you'll start seeing dead mice and rats. I do recommend using it in bait traps in order to keep pets off of it, especially this stuff because it smells like peanut butter. Kind of on the spendy side though so I took off a star for that. It works though.