Red tractor rat poison question

Location
Cleveland
Can anyone tell me the correct answer to put in here so I get a sweetie instead of a smacked bottom please

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The disposal of dead rats and spent bait
 

bitwrx

Member
I dunno...that’s why I’m asking
Have you considered reading the standard? The answers are all in there.

Finding the right paragraph in the pig standard took me 20 seconds.
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When I look on our bait bucket, the label will say "in line with local authority requirements". Your bait manufacturer may be different.
 

AndrewM

Member
BASIS
Location
Devon
Small numbers of poisoned rodents are buried on farmland by farmers, gamekeepers or pest control operatives and this is done without delay. • The burial site: o is at least 250 metres away from any well, borehole or spring that supplies water for human consumption or to be used in farm dairies o is at least 30 metres from any other spring or watercourse, and at least 10 metres from any field drain o has at least one metre of subsoil below the bottom of the burial pit, allowing a hole deep enough for at least one metre of soil to cover the carcass o when first dug, is free of standing water at the bottom of the hole.
 

bitwrx

Member
Yes I saw that but I thought if I wrote that they’d want to know what local requirements were
No, you (we) need to know what they are. Most inspectors only want to see something plausible in the box, and would stop looking at this point. If pressed during the inspection, our verbal answer would run something like this:

Our LA does not require us to dispose of them in a particular way. They aren't livestock, so no need to use fallen stock disposal. Most die in their burrows, so cannot be disposed of. Any that are seen to die outside their burrows, are buried, so end up in the same place as they would if they had died in their burrows.

Realistically, what we actually do if we find a dead rat is poke it down the nearest rat hole with a stick, then fill in the hole. Buried, job done. Just as if it had died in its burrow.

@AndrewM has given a good model answer, but that would be a rod for our own backs here: I'm not digging a 1m deep hole through chalk to bury a rat; we don't have a metre of subsoil; we don't have any field drains (the chalk does that).
 
Small numbers of poisoned rodents are buried on farmland by farmers, gamekeepers or pest control operatives and this is done without delay. • The burial site: o is at least 250 metres away from any well, borehole or spring that supplies water for human consumption or to be used in farm dairies o is at least 30 metres from any other spring or watercourse, and at least 10 metres from any field drain o has at least one metre of subsoil below the bottom of the burial pit, allowing a hole deep enough for at least one metre of soil to cover the carcass o when first dug, is free of standing water at the bottom of the hole.
And a cross on top
 

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