I need a field mouse snake, I've tried everything I know to catch the little buggers and nothing works for me. They come in the chicken run at night and eat the bits of scratch left by the hens. Anyone have any ideas?
JT
When you say “field mouse”…?
Do you mean voles? Chubby mice with short tails, making holes all over the yard.
That’s what I know as a field mouse, but other folks use that term for other types of mice.
I was losing the vole war, in an overwhelming way a few years ago, so I had to bring in whiskered mercenaries, in the form of a pregnant stray cat and her platoon of kittens.
And they got it done in a big way, on the voles. I seldom see vole holes around now. But when I do it is often by the coop. Generally, within a day or so Bess posts up there for a day or two, takes care of them, and then it becomes yesterday’s weather,
I just happen to know of a very pregnant orange tabby that needs a good home, hint hint!
she showed up at my sister’s recently, and she’s the sweetest, friendliest thing ever… she really deserves a good home with a fella that dotes on his critters. And according to a poll a read in the “ShowMe Grit and Scratch” weekly while getting a hair cut, your chickens rate you as such a fella.
I’ll bring her to Eminence this weekend if you’d like to recruit her into your field mouse war. You might need to pass the approval of my niece though… she really wants to keep her.
Also when I say “very pregnant cat”… I mean be ready to boil some water and rip up some bed sheets next week.
