Thank you very much!! Sounds like you were at the end of your rope with mice, as I am. I am definitely going to do these things. I will buy snap traps and steel wool tomorrow. I have several cameras and will install those as well. I don’t like killing anything either, but I am...
I have 8 Tom Cat Bait Stations around the outside of my coop and run now and that has not helped at all. Thank you very much, I will try a different brand.
I have mice inside the coop, I have approached the problem many different ways, but continue to lose. First of all I have 10 hens and a rooster and I purchased their coop from the local Amish. I have been raising chickens for 5 years now and I never had this many mice. It has been a constant...
I noticed about two weeks ago that one of my hens was not roosting with the other hens and rooster, she was sleeping in a nesting box. She would go out in the run with the others during the day, then back to the nesting box at night. After observing this for 3 days/nights, I noticed she was...
I do completely clean out the coop and run area once a week. I spray the coop, nesting boxes, roost, floors walls, ceiling, doors and windows, then I put fresh bedding in the coop. I do let them out of the coop and run into the yard, if I can be outside to watch them, otherwise they roam off...