Why do you not want to use traps? They are a very humane way of ridding your quail of the mice. Death is very swift. I recently had mice visiting my chickens run and eating their left over food and crapping in their food bowl and trough. They carry disease and I don't want my chickens eating mouse droppings.How do I prevent mice from climbing up the quails' cage without using traps? In other words...how can I stop them from climbing up the cage legs? I've already tried oiling the legs and that only worked for the first day until the oil dried up. It's a flight cage so it's not like I could hang it up from the ceiling. I haven't been able to sleep properly in the past 2 weeks...lights on, radio on, one eye open...and still get woken up in the middle of the night to find like 3 or 4 of them chillin' in the cage. If I don't get good sleep soon I think I'm going to lose my mind. Lol. Please help with some humane ideas on how to stop these mice from climbing up.![]()
I started trapping by setting Victor traps inside a small dog crate inside the run at night. I had a cannibalistic mouse that was eating the corpses of his fallen brethren. I finally got it. I thought I had 2 mice. I trapped 8. I have seen no further signs of mice in the run or around it. I would see mouse tracks in the snow.
I wouldn't wait for the landlord to resolve this issue for you. Start trapping.