A single family of barn owls eats somewhere between one and three thousand rodents a year. Not as a service you hired. Just as a thing that happens, every night, over your field.
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Standard rodent bait doesn't kill quickly, and it doesn't stay in the bait station. A poisoned rat wanders for days before it dies, slow and easy to catch — which makes it exactly the rat an owl takes home to its chicks.
This is measurable, not theoretical. In one study, a third of barn owls tested carried anticoagulant rodenticide. In another, seven out of ten spotted owls did.
We use a bait with substantially reduced secondary-poisoning risk, and out here that isn't an upgrade you can decline — it's a condition of us taking the work. If you'd rather we used no rodenticide at all, we'll trap instead.
We'd rather keep your best rodent control alive.
Not every property should get the same bait. On rural and acreage land, where owls and hawks are hunting the same rodents we're managing, we offer a different active ingredient — one that carries a substantially reduced risk of secondary poisoning compared with the anticoagulant baits this industry uses as standard.
It costs a little more per visit. On a property backing onto fields or woodland we'll recommend it anyway, and tell you plainly why.
And if you'd rather we used no rodenticide at all, that's what our Wildlife-Safe option is for — trapping only, no rodenticide on your property.
If your property backs onto fields or woodland, the owls and hawks nearby are already hunting your rodents for free. Our trapping option costs more than baiting, because traps need checking far more often. On a property like that we will still tell you it's the better choice.
You see the price on each and you choose. We'll recommend, and on rural property we'll push hard for the safer option — but it's your property and your call.
Sources, if you want to read further: UC Davis Veterinary Medicine on raptors and rodenticides and a Kentucky barn owl study.
On rural property we offer a bait with substantially reduced secondary-poisoning risk compared with standard anticoagulants, and we'll recommend it there. It costs a little more per visit. If you'd rather we used no rodenticide at all, our Wildlife-Safe option is trapping only.
It carries a substantially reduced risk of secondary poisoning compared with the anticoagulant baits this industry uses as standard. That is a comparison the product label supports. We will not tell you any rodenticide is safe for wildlife, because none of them are.
Trapping only, with no rodenticide used on your property at all. It costs more than baiting, because traps need checking far more often. On a property backing onto fields or woodland we will still tell you it is the better choice.
Flat contract pricing, and we answer the phone locally. Tell us about the property and we'll get you a number.
Or call (360) 670-3367 — we answer locally.
