Flour & cement powder rat poison - queries (2025 Update)

Gas Bag · 2011-01-26T12:58:22+00:00

I've recently come across some articles that mention you can make your own "non-toxic" rat/mouse posion by making a 50:50 mixture of regular/ corn flour and cement powder. They eat the mixture, then go in search of water. Once they drink some water....game over. I have a few specific questions, in relation to this D.I.Y. rat poison. - How effective is this mixture at killing rats and/or mice? - Assuming you place this mixture indoors (e.g. in the roof space), will this poison ONLY take effect once the rodent goes outside for a drink of water? The reason being, I'd want to avoid at-all-costs having Ratty "snuff it" in my roof space, then having the most God- awful smell to contend with a few days later. - Is there anything that can be added to this mixture that would make it extremely enticing to rats and/or mice? e.g. Powdered parmesan cheese, sugar, salt, a little soy/fish sauce, some type of finely chopped meat (raw or cooked)? I am just taking a wild guess here, as I don't know what would attract them. - Most of all, would tile grouting powder, used for bathroom tiling, work just as well as cement powder in this D.I.Y. mixture? I really would appreciate some advice. Thanks.

lacksey 4 years ago

Only 11 years this time.

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Bill 3 years ago

Most interesting

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Jas 3 years ago

Glen20 (spray) removed odours easily

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Kevinkirk51@gmail.com 3 years ago

I guess you can alter the ingredients if you want but the old man who told me this used cement and flour as do I. There is no guarantee where they will die of course. I always but it outside away from the house and normally it kills everything within quite a distance.

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Garry21 1 year ago

The cement and flour or maize meal mix works very well. when the rodents consume he mix and the drink water the cement powder hardens and there for kill because he guts can no longer function. Because of the way it works the rodents do not seem to relate the mix with death as they do with many poisons or snap traps. An effective way to bait is to put the bait in side old car tires and lie flat on the ground with a cover over so cats and dogs cant get to it. Place several tires around the property. The tires will keep the bait dry. The city municipality were I came from used to do this all around the city and it seemed to work very effectivly.

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Billy 15 years ago

Be careful of where you put the poison. I lost 2 cats last year to poisoning, cats that were encouraged by neighbors, because they were "mousers".

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Brooklyn1 15 years ago

Why did you put your cats outdoors, you ignorant POS... you need to be poisoned... actually I'd be happy to tie you into a sack with a few bricks and toss you into a lake.

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