LPM 121: Fodder Production and Grassland Management (1+1)

RODENTS

• Rodents not only consume food but also foul with their excretions. Further they destroy containers by gnawing holes that results in leakage and wastage of grain.

Control

• Rodent exclusion efforts in store construction.
• Improved sanitation.
• Fumigation with phosphine and other gasses.
• Trapping and hunting.
• Use of cats and dogs.
• Rodent repellants.
• Poison baiting with chlorofacinone, warfarrin, coumarin, zinc phosphate, barium carbonate etc.

Dose

• In acute case :
  • Zinc phosphide
  • Calcium cyanide 0.5%
  • Aluminium phosphide
• In chronic cases:
  • Warfarin 0.05%
  • Coumarin