“We think like a rodent and understand what a rodent likes. We’ve researched different flavours, different textures; wheat bait, gel bait, block bait, with different shapes to encourage gnawing. Different bait boxes to provide the ideal feeding environment. It’s all about out-thinking rodents, and our competitors.”
Approach
We have produced this guide to help professional pest controllers across the UK communicate the increasing challenge of ensuring safe and cost-effective year-round rodent control.
It sets out a planned approach to controlling rats and mice designed to address the difficulties encountered by many in balancing growing demands for first class rodent control on the one hand with the need to maximise food safety and protect non-target animals on the other.
Actively promoting responsible rodenticide use, it involves three essential elements:
- A good understanding of natural rodent behaviour;
- Better planning of controls around this behaviour; and,
- The best baiting technology to exploit this behaviour
We have combined these elements into practical behaviour-led, best practice control measures that can be integrated simply and effectively into the day-to-day management of any UK livestock or arable unit with the minimum of time and hassle.
We have no doubt that exploiting the natural behaviour of rats as fully as possible in this way has to be the best, safest and most environmentally sustainable route to improving the speed and reliability of control.
We hope you find our approach of immediate and lasting value in help you keep on top of your own rodent control challenges.
One of the Uk's leading independent rodent control specialists, Adrian Meyer provides expert advice to agricultiral businesses and organisations across the world.
Rodenticide development manager with Sorex, Sharon Hughes is responsible for the UK's formost farm rodent control research and development programme.
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