Is mouse poison safe around caged birds?

Question

I have 6 pairs of parrotlet breeders. I have seen mice in the room where I keep them just feasting on the seed that falls to the floor. Is it safe to put poison out since the birds are always caged? I really want to get rid of the mouse problem and I don't like using traps. I wasn't sure if fumes from the poison are an issue, or if it is just the concern of a mouse eating the poison. Please let me know. I really want to get rid of the mouse issue! I hate them!!

I am VERY knowledgeable about my birds and their breed specifically. I wasn't sure about mouse poison. I was not going to put it in the room near the birds. For goodness sake - I am asking a question for information. My home is VERY clean. I clean the floor in the room daily. If you had as many birds as I do, you would understand that keeping seed and fresh foods off the floor all the time is just not going to happen!

Answer 1

Goodness! Some folks are really RUDE on this thing!!! A person can still get mice even if they are clean. And no matter how hard one tries there is no possible way to keep seeds off the floor ALL THE TIME! This person is having a problem with mice & IS trying to find out how to solve it by asking us & some of you people are being so rude it isn't funny.

FUMES WILL KILL YOUR BIRDS though. A good way to get rid of the mice is to borrow you a few cats for a while. Or one to keep around all the time. The Cat will kill the mice & you will not have to worry about poisons or dead mice to toss or anything, the cat does all the work for ya.
Good luck, and just pay no attention to the rude comments. (Please pardon any typos - its late & I'm sleepy.)

Answer 2

This has more to do with YOU not being clean then anything else. It takes more then 30 days to draw mice into your home!

Changing the diet of your birds would be more of welcome to your birds and the mice. If you want to be lazy about cleaning, so be it, but it would also help your birds and stop the mice from coming in.

Mice are a bad husbandry problem on YOUR part. Seeds are not a proper diet and if you were feeding them right, you wouldn't have this problem to begin with.

So with that said, CLEAN UP YOUR ACT, and you'd have healthier birds, plus NO MICE!!

EDIT: Then go look up the Hanta virus and expose yourself and your family to it if you want to. Mice are filthy animals with their urine and feces. Parrotlets are aggressive when it comes to mice in their cages. For everyone mice you see, there are 6 more you don't see. You will soon have to call pest control when you can no longer control the problem yourself. Cleaning once a day is no longer an option, clean 3 times a day to control the problem, or feed different food. If a mouse gets in the cages and a bird kills it that has eaten poison, your bird is also dead. Using live traps don't work, use the old snap traps and check the sexes to check if a female has reproduced or not. this way you know if babies were born and how many you might still have around.

Answer 3

My only concern would be that the mice carry it in to birds cages. A (pheasant) farmer I know said he puts chunks of it into a coffee can laid on it's side with a small hole in the center of the lid so the mice can get in and out and not drag the poison. My boyfriend's been doing the same thing with a poison from Home Depot that's been working well. I forget the name, but it's small black boxes with a clear window, showing appr. 1 inch. square green blocks. It's good, not the hemorrhagic type that makes them bleed to death (you don't want that!), they dry out instead. It has the word "kills" in the title or company name.

Answer 4

Use traps to get rid of mice. Also pick up all of the food that the mice are eating. Keep your home clean.

Birds are very susceptible to poisons. So are humans.

Clean up and use traps. A cat or dog is also helpful.

Answer 5

my house is very clean as well and i too had a mouse problem. there was a small hole on the side of my house, around 1.5 /2 inches all around and the little bastards kept coming in, although *humor forfms* can be a little harsh in her answers, i agree with her completely especially with the fact that you are better off with the traps han the poison, luckily for me we noticed the hole and sealed it because the damn mice used to climb the cages and try to go in, we woke up to see one once. i used the sticky traps and caught them quite efficiently, just make sure your birds cant come out, the poison seems like too much of a risk for me.

Answer 6

POISON KILLS. That is all you need to know.
The poison kills everything, not just what the package says it will kill.

Let's talk about FUMES and BIRDS- you can kill a bird with incense, paint fumes, overheated teflon on cooking pans, too much cigarette smoke.

So if you use fumes around your birds that are poisonous, you will probably kill more birds than mice.

Why is it that people who are "breeders" know next to nothing about thier animals?

Answer 7

Use a trap! Bait it with food. Poison should not be used in the house, it's dangerous for all animals and people.

Answer 8

get a cat then a dog to keep the cat from eating the bird

Answer 9

Yes its fine..