Mice...seem to breed faster t han rabbits. Help!

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:rolleyes:glad you liked that. another thing that works supposedly is soda. they cant fart or burp. so the carbonation has to go somewhere, evenually they swell and pop. so make sure that if you go that route they are not in your home as it makes quite the mess, apparently.
 
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am wiping the tears from my eyes...way too funny!

Would that be, DeFlater-Mouse?
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With a field and woods near by my coop lots of mice showed up for uneaten chicken feed so what I went and tried was a Victor Tin Cat

LOVE THEM, have two and move them around, bait with bird seed, oats and sunflower seeds and rotate what is used for bait. I the one that get caught, drown and then feed to the ducks.

http://www.professionalequipment.com/mouse-trap-tin-cat-victor-m308/pest-management/?CMP=KNC-Google

They so work and have even helped when a stray mouse went into the house!

It seemed alot cheeper then buying anything else and did not want to use posion around my peeps.

ML
 
I have a kitten a few months old that was born underneath my house to my ferel cats ( got for mouse control ) local tom killed the mom and dad got ran over. the kitten KEKE adores my chickens having been raised about 20 feet from their coop. I also have a large number of raoming cats around here as they come to eat KEKE's food. Roaming cats never get in the run there is a small area in the deer netting on top that KEKE gets through and plays with the chickens naps with them and sleeps in the nest boxes. I have heard that chickens will kill mice ( not sure about this ) but they will mutilate a frog ( too funny watching 2 hens fight over a frog.
 
Keep all food in tightly shut containers with weights on top, making sure there's no crumbs on the ground overnight.

Consider trying Mouse Magic by Bonide - it is a nontoxic repellent of peppermint and spearmint - mice supposedly hate it and also cotton balls dunked in peppermint oil. I would not put these things directly where your feathered friends sleep in case the smells bother them. Place in other areas nearby and hopefully the mice will leave the premises. It did work for me and for a friend of mine who had mice taking up residence in her car engine.

Hav-a-harts do seem to work great for harmlessly catching mice so long as the bait is tasty. You can then choose to release them if you wish away from people at the edge of woods and a field setting so they can find the food they need. Don't beat me up people - I will never kill if there is a reasonable alternative.

I would never use glue traps - they are cruel and medieval. Long suffering and terror when a being gets stuck to those things. I would also never use poison - indiscriminate - there are often unintended victims.

I understand the frustration and dilemma - been there, done that but it all worked out - good luck.

JJ
 

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