The rodent control program BayTool is based on the allocation of rodenticide baiting points to specific structural elements on the farm. This scheme was discovered when numerous field-trials were analysed. The resulting rat control strategy was then examined on 25 farms in north-west Germany. A 75% level of implementation of the control plan always resulted in complete control success, whereas a significantly lower compliance level of only 51% was recorded on farms that did not achieve eradication. The new method of bait point allocation was incorporated into the self-explanatory computer program BayTool, which was verified to be effective during a rat control campaign in the restricted area after an outbreak of classical swine fever in northern Germany.
Patents are pending for the new control method. The basic investigations were published:
Endepols S., Klemann N., Pelz H.-J., Ziebell K.-L. (2003): A scheme for the
placement of rodenticide baits for rat eradication on confinement livestock
farms. Prev. Vet. Med. 58, 115-123. |
