The chances of secondary poisoning by chickens consuming the feces left behind by rodents that consumed Contrac Blox is extremely slim. Normally animals have to consume multiple entire rodents in order to ingest enough poison to have any effects. Unless the chickens are getting direct access to the poison itself there should not be any issue if they consume a few pellets here and there.
No, you do not need a license to use Contrac All-Weather Blox Rodenticide.
You should rotate Contrac All-Weather Blox Rodenticide every 4-6 months with a bait that has a different active ingredient to prevent resistance. Fastrac or Final are great options.
The risk of secondary poisoning with Contrac Blox is very minimal. A rodent only consumes a very small amount of bait at a time and passes it very quickly only keeping a smaller amount in their liver until they succumb to the effects of the bait. For expample, a cat would have to actually eat 20-30 mice that have consumed the bait for it to have an effect. In most cases well fed domesticated animals will not actually eat a mouse or a rat that they come across. Instead they will play with it, chew it and then leave it behind.
For a rodenticide, we would recommend Contrac Blox. It is a single feed kill. It comes in an 18 lb. pail. We would recommend putting these in rat bait stations, such as Protecta Rat Bait Stations. If you are in CA, we would recommend Fastrac Blox. Although they are not a single feed kill, they still will work wonderfully.
For spiders, we would recommend using Bifen IT. This can be sprayed indoors and outdoors. It does have a residual of about 90 days indoors and 30 days outdoors. Indoors, it needs to be sprayed in the cracks and crevices and along the baseboards. Outdoors, this product can be used around the perimeter, in the lawn, on shrubs, trees and on flowers. This product should be used on edibles.
Yes, both the 4lb and 18lb buckets of Contrac Blox utilize the same label.
Unfortunately Contrac Blox is only labeled for rodents like rats and mice. Therefore we cannot recommend that it be used for ground squirrels. We do not have any products that are labeled for squirrels specifically other than live catch traps.
We do not advise using Contrac Blox Rodenticide to treat for moles as it is not labeled to used for that treatment. Moles' primary food source is actually earthworms, and they stay underground to feed, so it is unlikely they would even consume a bait such as Contrac. Please refer to our guide on How to get rid of Moles to help further asisst you.
By law Contrac Blox Rodenticide needs to be used inside a bait station, we would not recommend to toss loose blox in the drop ceiling. We would recommend using traps instead.