Humane way to stop mice from invading quail cage

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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. 😩
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.
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.
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I wouldn't wait for the landlord to resolve this issue for you. Start trapping.
 
I thought about what u just said which is actually a great idea but being that I don't foresee this as being a longterm problem I just want the quick and easy solution.

I wish a quick and easy solution existed. All you can do is use hardware cloth to screen them out, use snap traps, and if you don't have any pets that can get to it, use poison where the quail can't get to it. Rodents are relentless.
 
You mention your cage has legs. Are they able to get in through other means than this? Cuz if they're just climbing the legs to get in, maybe a "climbing shield" would be helpful. You'll probably have to make it stick out a bit far as they can stretch. Hopefully you'd be able to do something like that to keep them out. :)
 
Sorry you have a mice problem. Some of the suggestions here will definitely work: 1/2 inch hardware cloth barrier, creating a "climbing shield," and quick kill and catch and release traps. I would never, ever use poison. Not only does it create unnecessary suffering, it could potentially poison your quail, your other pets, humans, and wildlife. Poisoned rodents also crawl off to die somewhere they think is safe, so the smell of decomposing animals stuck in walls and other places is an issue.

We've used quick kill and catch and release traps and they both work (although you should release the live trapped rodents fairly far from your home). Just curious: why don't you want to use traps?
 
I lived in a building run by slumlords in Brooklyn for many years and mice were a HUGE issue. Snap traps work best in my experience, catch and release is often just making them someone else’s problem. Mice will stay away from areas frequented by other larger rodents. We kept Syrian hamsters and the mice stayed away from them, even crossed the room to pass the cage, and I found mice curled up in my bulldogs arms once, but they don’t like other rodents. I would take some of the hamster bedding and tuck it into the corners of my door on the outside hallway side to try to keep them from running in when they cleaned the trash room down the hall, it seemed to help, they still came in thru other means but I stopped seeing them run in under the door when the trash was emptied. If you like pet rats, I’ve heard they don’t like rats either.
 
I've tried a number of products. After reading more on the effects of poison, I no longer use any. It's bad for more than just the rodents that eat it; it could kill wildlife or your neighbors' pets if they eat the infected mice.

Reusable snap traps are the best. Be sure to tether it with wire so that if a rat is injured instead of killed, it doesn't run off with the trap attached. Here's a picture of the one I like best:

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It's made by Kat Sense. So far, all the ones I've found in these traps were dead, instantly killed by the powerful snap jaws.

On a side note, if you use sticky traps, you can release other animals caught in it by using vegetable oil. I accidentally caught a pigeon in mine. It was fine, but it had to spend the night with me drying off after a bath in soapy water.
 
I've tried a number of products. After reading more on the effects of poison, I no longer use any. It's bad for more than just the rodents that eat it; it could kill wildlife or your neighbors' pets if they eat the infected mice.

Reusable snap traps are the best. Be sure to tether it with wire so that if a rat is injured instead of killed, it doesn't run off with the trap attached. Here's a picture of the one I like best:

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It's made by Kat Sense. So far, all the ones I've found in these traps were dead, instantly killed by the powerful snap jaws.

On a side note, if you use sticky traps, you can release other animals caught in it by using vegetable oil. I accidentally caught a pigeon in mine. It was fine, but it had to spend the night with me drying off after a bath in soapy water.
I hate taking smashed mice out of reusable traps, I always bought the cheap snap traps and I set them inside brown lunch bags so I could just pick the whole thing up and throw it away without touching any of it.
 
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