Md. Shah Alam
Senior Scientific Officer
Vertebrate pest Division, BARI,Gazipur
Dr. Gobinda Chandra Biswas
Principal Scientific Officer
Vertebrate pest Division, BARI,Gazipur
Md. Anwar Zahid
Senior Scientific Officer
Vertebrate pest Division, BARI,Gazipur
The effectiveness of cow dung and poultry litter for controlling rodents was evaluated in the poultry farm during January to May 2013. Five different concentrations of cow dung and poultry littler solution i.e. 10%, 20% and 30% cow dung solution and 20% poultry litter solution including untreated control were used for controlling rats. At poultry farm 30% and 20% cow dung solution was found effective (70% success) followed by 20% poultry litter solution (60% success) and 10% cow dung solution (50% success).
study , efficacy, cow dung, poultry litter, controlling, rat
Kapasia, Gazipur, and VPD, BARI, Gazipur
Pest Management
i) To know the efficacy of cow dung and poultry litter for rat control
ii) To find out the most effective concentration of cow dung and poultry litter for rat control
For preparing 30%, 20% and 10% cow dung solution; 300g, 200g and 100g cow dung was mixed with 1 (one) L of water respectively. For preparing 20% poultry litter solution same procedure was also followed. This mixture was blended for about 5 minutes and put in a water pot.
Two liters of cow dung and poultry litter solution were applied by water pot in one active burrow system in each treatment. The prepared solution was applied in the evening and application was continued for consecutive two days. In case of untreated control treatment, active burrow systems were treated with pure drinking water only. After applying the treatments the entire burrow opening were closed by soil. After application of the treatments, rodent activities were observed up to seven days. The post treatment tile index data was taken. Efficacy of the treatment was judged on the basis of rodent activities based on active burrow opening and foot print on the tracking tiles.
Annual Reporty, VPD, BARI
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It is revealed that the rodent controlling success differed significantly (1% level) among the treatments. In active burrow count method, the rodent controlling efficacy for 30%, 20% and 10% cow dung solution was 70.00%, 70.00% and 50.00% respectively in poultry farm (Table 1). Poultry litter was also found effective against burrowing rat with 60% success. Thirty and twenty per cent cow dung solution showed the highest success (70.00%) which was identical with twenty per cent poultry litter and ten percent cow dung solution. Only 10.00% success was recorded in case of untreated control treatment where no cow dung was used. The result showed the more or less similar efficacy in case of tracking tile count methods (Table 2). The findings of the experiment could be used as a eco-friendly tool for integrated rodent management, which will be used as environmentally sound and cost effective technology for controlling burrowing rats compared with the present method of rat control.
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