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I will try to catch some, preferably with a live trap of some sort. I will contact a conservation biologist to see what are best methods. My experience is limited to golden mice and white-footed mice as by-catch where voles where never caught even though we knew they were present. Once in a...

IMAGE OF RODENT BURROWS The rodents have move large amounts of soil forming hills I can not straddle with blade deck without cutting into soil. The burrows are everywhere.

Not all will agree with that, but thank you none-the-less. It is important to me that more dimensions be considered with respect to food production, especially when it comes to natural resource conservation. I do the intensive side of fish production and see that long-term efforts will need...

Trained as Zoologist / Fishery Biologist. Work in Aquaculture. Grew up around diversified agriculture including row crops, hogs, cattle, poultry (games and grandmothers egg production flock) and horses. Woodland vole I think is the brown species I have. Meadow vole is in the fen and the...

As the mouse in the house season approaches we will be seeing mice move into house briefly and most will be what look like deer or white-footed mice. They do not persist long indoor like house mice do. The rats in question are not to hard to find down in the woods and do not get as big as...

Tall stuff (mostly cool season grasses like fescue and cheat grass) does not provide much directly with respect to nutrition but it is refuge for insects making so chickens do not overgraze. Cover value, especially from heat is vey important as well. The cut grass and legumes provides bulk of...

Same neighbor shooting rats off his porch has at least a dozen cats. They do not control rodents on his place although they do put a good dent in the rabbits and songbirds. My dogs keep those cats of our property. Our cats are allowed by dogs to roam but they are too well fed to put a dent in...

I have my predators of all sorts (foxes, hawks, owls, raccoons, opossums, snakes etc.) very much under control. This has come at a cost where the number of rats and mice has greatly increased and they are causing damage. Most of my birds are in small pens that can be moved. The rodents are so...