Latest reason to hate mice!!!

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I had a friend years ago who rented a college owned house. College rules said no pets. They were on what had originally been the college's dairy farm, but now was mostly leased to local farmers. She and roommates tried everything to get rid of the mice

They initially started with live traps, because one of them didn't want to kill the mice. They would release them in the fields and the mice would be back in the traps before the people got back to the house. All the live traps did was create fat mice.

They tried the sticky pads, but then someone had to kill the mice....

They tried snap traps, but would wake up to "snap, scrabble, scrabble, whimper.....

They finally got a cat. Problem solved. No one reported them; because the person responsible for her building knew about the mouse problem.
 
When we moved here there was mouse crap EVERYWHERE! The no see no touch mouse traps work good. A little to pricey. They were smart man! Licked the p-nut butter off of the wooden traps and didn't get stuck to the sticky traps. My kitty cat handled the rest. So far 8 down and no more droppings.

I hate mice with a passion. I can't believe there is a mouse nest in your car. ewwww!

BTW we have voles outside and field mice inside (well did).

I actually killed a vole that I found under our wood pile. Then my husband had to kill another one. The funny thing is the wood was only in a pile for a few days. When we decided to stack it they had already built nest:(. EWWW
 
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I had never even HEARD of mice making nests in car engines!

The longest we have our car in the garage is maybe 48 hours, we use it almost every day - engine could very well have caught on fire apparently
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Man, were we lucky.

Well, $162 of repairs says we are...
 
Oh yeah they will nest in engines - my dad has had problems with that on their acreage. They now have mice in their house because my dad is not fond of cats. I have offered to loan out one of mine - my mom would take it in a heartbeat, but my dad would rather live with the mice apparently.
 
Someone I know had a mouse build a nest in their car in some part where the nest stuff got sucked into the engine's insides when they turned the car on. Actually ruined the engine.
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BTW--Using feeders (the type that are used to feed pellets to rabbits & such) instead of food bowls can help reduce feed waste so mice don't have so many "resources" that draw them to a coop. The rim around the inside of feeders can help keep chickens from scooping food out on the floor as much (though I have some chickens that are pretty adept at it still)--especially if you don't fill the feeders real full.
Ideal thing is to fill containers in the morning for the chickens and give just enough feed that they're empty by night, or put the feeders somewhere mouse-proof at night.
I feel for everyone with rodent problems. Mice were driving me CRAZY last winter. They got very brazen & traps didn't work.
I begged Tri, who I knew to be the world's greatest mouser, off my former husband. Put him in the coop for a bit & now he & 2 other cats live on the place. Mouse droppings are a rarity now & never see a mouse.
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The rats come to the wasted chicken feed. Will do the same with cat or dog food, even other animals feed. Its the grain they want, not chicken or eggs.

I know they will feed on anything that is "left behind". I called the city and they actually told me that rats will even eat animals poop. I'm still seeing them here and there even after my chickens have been gone. I cleaned the coop from top to bottom....in tears of course...after they left to their new home. So I am curious to see just how bad the infestation is when spring rolls around...without my chickens being here.
 

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