2016-03-21 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – March 21, 2016 that there was Vitamin K in their feed. So anyway, it’s a long story… But it wasn’t Forestry and Wildlife and the person that did that lost their job. TL: Richard Hoeflinger… RH: \[Not speaking in mic\] are they rats, are they mongoose or a combination of two… TL: Yeah… RH: It’s my understanding that, ah, rats will take peanut butter flavored Diphacinone, which is what you get at the feed store, ah, but the mongoose will not take it. Mongoose used to take fish flavored Diphacinone but it is my understanding that is no longer manufactured or no longer available, so you’re not going to get mongoose on peanut butter flavored Diphacinone. ?: I’m not positive about that – I’ve done a bunch. I think the mongoose eat just about anything. RH: Ah, we tried it at Pu’uwa’awa’a for some time and they would not take – mongoose would not take the peanut butter flavored rat \[unclear\]. I think Eaton used to make fish flavored… ?: Yeah, there was a fish formulation. RH: I don’t think they make them anymore. ?: Yeah, they’re – we’re a pretty small market, I mean, we use just a tiny fraction of that produced and so a lot of these manufacturers aren’t really even interested in dealing with us and coming up with special formulations because we really don’t, you know, they manufacture a muck greater quantities for other industries. NP: So how – excuse me – so how long does it take once a rat or a mongoose consumes the poison till they actually die of hemophilia or whatever – bleeding out? ?: It’s usually four or five days… NP: Yeah, so in that time they could travel outside of the fenced area – die – and pigs could eat them because pigs will eat dead animals. ?: Yeah, but… NP: And then a hunter could hunt that pig and… 6