i'm tired of people wanting to use chemicals for everything
there's too many people on this planet
i'm tired of people wanting to use chemicals for everything
there's too many people on this planet
Mouse Plague Grows to Biblical Proportions Across Eastern Australia - North West NSW towns of Coonamble, Dubbo & Gulargambone and Toowoomba in South Queensland heavily affected, farmers want to use the banned highly toxic pesticide zinc phosphide which would play havoc with native wildlife
(www.theguardian.com)
Zinc phosphide is highly toxic in acute exposure to humans, characterized by acute renal failure and tubulo interstitial nephritis. .
Zinc phosphide is highly toxic in acute exposure to humans, characterized by acute renal failure and tubulo interstitial nephritis. [BioMedCentral.com](https://bmcpharmacoltoxicol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40360-017-0144-7).
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8943499/feral-cats-australia-killed-poison-sausages-shot/ (article from 2019)
So here's how one hand doesn't know what the other one is doing.
The Aussie government has been poisoning the predators that could fix this problem.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8943499/feral-cats-australia-killed-poison-sausages-shot/ (article from 2019)
So here's how one hand doesn't know what the other one is doing.
The Aussie government has been poisoning the predators that could fix this problem.
Both are invasive. But I agree, I'd think the mouse populations would be the priority at this point.
Both are invasive. But I agree, I'd think the mouse populations would be the priority at this point.
I remember a mouse plague from back in the late 90s'. We had a small auger in a bin of oats to bag out sheep feed, before bagging the oats we would run the auger for 10-20 seconds into a plastic bin to auger all the mice out of it, hundreds every time. The smell is something that you never forget. If you lifted up a sheet of iron, the ground would just move with a carpet of mice.
I remember a mouse plague from back in the late 90s'. We had a small auger in a bin of oats to bag out sheep feed, before bagging the oats we would run the auger for 10-20 seconds into a plastic bin to auger all the mice out of it, hundreds every time. The smell is something that you never forget. If you lifted up a sheet of iron, the ground would just move with a carpet of mice.
Just buy a terrier.
Just buy a terrier.
Was just thinking along the same vein - introduce a predator of some sort.
Was just thinking along the same vein - introduce a predator of some sort.
Exactly, a Jack Russell is guaranteed to kill everything, at least double its size within a few km radius.
Exactly, a Jack Russell is guaranteed to kill everything, at least double its size within a few km radius.
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