BYC Café

[sourland]

Good morning, Cafe', and thanks for the coffee DL. I've never seen as many deer mice as are around this year. I've caught a dozen or more in the basement, 26 in the beagle club clubhouse, and 22 in the beagle club pole barn.

 

[aart]

Had it happen in the garage too when we first moved here. It's gross.

Never seen it in 20 years of trapping mice in the garage(under the house)

Only bugs eating/cleaning corpses:

 

[sourland]

Never seen it in 20 years of trapping mice in the garage(under the house)

Only bugs eating/cleaning corpses:
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I think that deer mice are more cannibalistic than the European house mouse.

 

[aart]

I think that deer mice are more cannibalistic than the European house mouse.

Not sure what kind of mice these are.

 

[sourland]

House mice are a dull gray color. Deer mice are a bright 'reddish' color. The ones in Tonya's picture are deer mice. Edited to add that juvenile deer mice are gray in color.

 

[DobieLover]

Good morning, Cafe', and thanks for the coffee DL. I've never seen as many deer mice as are around this year. I've caught a dozen or more in the basement, 26 in the beagle club clubhouse, and 22 in the beagle club pole barn.

Wow, Sour. That's a whole lotta mice. I feel fortunate that I'm only dealing with so few. Well, I'm up to 8 now. I'll have to see how it goes after I install the longer door stop to block the gap.

 

[sourland]

Wow, Sour. That's a whole lotta mice. I feel fortunate that I'm only dealing with so few. Well, I'm up to 8 now. I'll have to see how it goes after I install the longer door stop to block the gap.

Perhaps that 8 is only the tip of the 'mouse iceberg'.

 

[aart]

House mice are a dull gray color. Deer mice are a bright 'reddish' color. The ones in Tonya's picture are deer mice. Edited to add that juvenile deer mice are gray in color.

Will have to look more closely...but IIRC the ones I've caught look like DL's pic.

 

[DobieLover]

Perhaps that 8 is only the tip of the 'mouse iceberg'.

Possible. But the droppings evidence would indicate otherwise.

 

[aart]

A balmy 20° this morning. More snow falling and just shoveled a couple few inches.
Down to single digits S-M-T nights.
EL/Vit 'treat' for chooks today.