TheRedBush7
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A group of Mice continue to infiltrate my coop and take food from it! How do I stop them?
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Is there a lot of cover, brush, tall grasses, anything else up against the coop?A group of Mice continue to infiltrate my coop and take food from it! How do I stop them?
Is there a lot of cover, brush, tall grasses, anything else up against the coop?
Clear the area around the coop and also places they can hide and nest inside the coop.
My coop is just part of a storage shed and there's lots of places for them to hide out and nest.
I find nests in the oddest places, the dog often helps me find them.
I put snap traps everywhere and check them daily, the plastic easy empty ones work great,
just dump the carcasses in the run for a high protein breakfast for the chooks.
Quote: Loosing the cover can still help, more for nesting than movement.
I've used the drowning buckets and they worked great until they didn't, put out snap traps and BAM caught a bunch more....
.....ya just gotta keep trapping them with what ever works. I like the snap traps because they are easy and 'cleaner' than the buckets, but I use both.