Its the time of year when all the mice come in from the fields. Some of them end up in my attic. And as usual I went around and topped up the mouse poison.
This year the stuff I got from B&Q (but made by Rentokil) looks to be a grain coated in some kind of blue stuff, which I guess is the poison. The stuff seems to be having little effect on the mice. Inspecting the "food troughs" I have left around the attic I note that almost all the grain as been eaten and I am left with a considerable pile of blue skins or husks which was the coating from the grain.
Its remarkable, but I suspect I am feeding rather than poisoning my mice.
Anybody else run into this sort of thing? Or any suggestions on where I can get better mouse poison which actually works. I note that B&Q, and Homebase are both selling rebranded versions of the blue coated grain from Rentokil. I suspect that many other hardware stores are doing the same, but I cant open and inspect their goods.