MICE / RATS

[ublyhunter]

What are you doing to handle the mice around your coops. I had a huge mouse dart from under my coop into the ground under the fence. Very big and dark brown. No it was not a chipmunk or red squirrel.

I am on 5 acres. Seriously, how can you do anything when the entire area has chicken feed and poop around? I think it's just inevitable.

What do think? Thank You!

 

[Fishkeeper]

You can contain the chicken feed inside the coop so there's minimal things to attract them, you can put mouse traps in boxes with mouse-sized holes so the chickens can't get to the traps, and you can accept that there will always be mice. Unless they're getting into your coop and making a mess, or eating all the feed, you might just want to let them be.

 

[ublyhunter]

Thanks for the feedback!