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[EggSighted4Life]

Thanks guys! That was my suspicion. I must make a decision on how to proceed fairly soon as I can see the tiny foot prints in my run every morning.

 

[aldarita]

I am glad to help. If you have a way to put this trap in after they have gone to roost and then take it out early (of course this only works if you have a run). I am very impressed on how effective they have been, I know they are pricey but they do a very good job, like I mentioned before, they kill more than one mouse at a time.

 

[aart]

Thanks guys! That was my suspicion. I must make a decision on how to proceed fairly soon as I can see the tiny foot prints in my run every morning.

I wonder if you could build a little box out of 1x1" or 1x2" cage mesh to put it over/around the zapper trap?
Mice could fit thru 1" and chicks couldn't,
but mice might not as freely investigate trap if it's enclosed in mesh.
Just a thought.

 

[Leahs Mom]

I used one of the zap traps in my run but not with chicks present. I put it into a "rubbermaid" container - the one that's the size of a shoe box - and cut a little entrance into it on one side. That was so that it could be out in the rain without harm. It worked well, but the trap only lasted about 1.5 year before it quit.

I now use these, but I don't use the bait when they are in the chicken area. I use the traps inside them. They work great - I keep one in the barn near the pens and one just outside the door.

These are locked with a key to enter so even someone picking it up and trying to open it can't get in. Only thing I don't like is that you have to open it to see if you've caught anything. (I use the rat traps as my original issue was with chipmunks, but I've also set mouse size traps inside as well.)


http://store.doyourownpestcontrol.com/proteca-evo-ambush-bait-station

http://store.doyourownpestcontrol.com/trapper-t-rex-rat-snap-trap

 

[favman]

I'm starting to notice mice in the coop what's the best way to get rid of them ? Not sure if used poison it would hurt my chickens

 

[favman]

I'm starting to notice mice in the coop what's the best way to get rid of them ? Not sure if used poison it would hurt my chickens

hi, just spotted your post not up with putters, but you can stay on top of most vermin with a big coffee jar 2/3 full raw sugar 1/3 cement shake till sugar is grey fill jar lids and put out of way chooks if chook gets dead mouse only cement rock in the middle.no poison when no top up of jar lids per week not needed 1/2 lids an till they come back. simple but it is a job to keep on like feed ,water ,bedding.,and T L C. luck to you favman.

 

[BigMikeAz]

Tamper proof bait boxes with chunx bait. Don't use pellet poison, it can get strewn about and be eaten by your birds. I keep a bait box right in the run at all times. Tractor Supply sells the tamper proof boxes and has 4 lbs pails of chunx style poison. It lasts a long time. You'll go through half a pail getting rid of the population you currently have grown around you but after that you barely use any except spring and fall when rodents are on the move. Basically you check the box and hardly any is used for months on end then bang! It's empty. That's what happens spring and fall.

is it harmful to your birds if that eat a mouse that has died from the chunk bait?

 

[EggSighted4Life]

is it harmful to your birds if that eat a mouse that has died from the chunk bait?

I'm not sure of the exact bait vector control used, but it was a block inside a locked box. They told me, because I was concerned for my hens back then in the city, that even a cat or chicken consumed the whole dead rat, there was not enough poison to harm the second animal.

I have decided I will do either the bait box or the shock one and just add and remove from my run at night and in the morn. Then I don't have to worry about chicks and my dogs shouldn't be a problem. Should I presume it's a rat problem and get rat sized instead of wasting $ on mice sized? Will rat traps still get mice? Seems like a stupid question, but different creatures..

Then if you use the shock one.. you can build a maggot bucket!

@favman that's a creative solution.

 

[Leahs Mom]

My zap (shock) trap was rat sized and caught mice fine.

The traps just don't last long unfortunately, so I ended up getting the Ambush and using it without poison but with the trap inside. (shown in post 14) Much more cost effective.

 

[Leahs Mom]

OH...and remember that if you use the zap trap, they can't be out in the rain (which is why one of the reasons I put it inside the rubbermaid with an entrance hole cut.