Mouse living with chickens?!

[drumstick diva]

Maybe the bucket trap would work. I do think the mouse(mice) like the warmth from the chickens. You may not be seeing the same mouse-.

 

[sdk]

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I dont have any roosters because I am in a residential area. We are allowed to have chickens, and theoretically could have a rooster, but the neighbors would surely complain about the noise so until we move to an area with more land we are forced to live without a roo.

 

[gryeyes]

I have seen cute little grey mice in one of the coops with the chickens. It lives in the space between the plastic walls of the Little Tikes playhouse and can squeeze into the most amazingly small holes! I've also seen them dash across the yard, and my cats will hunt them, but when a mouse runs through the tiny opening in the fence material, the cats can't follow.

And now that it's Winter and much colder, some mice have moved into my house. I just bought some RatZappers because *I* cannot drown mice, I cannot kill them myself, and putting them outside doesn't do any darned good at all. I can't deal with the squeaking of a mouse caught on a glue trap, and I can't use the snap traps because I have companions in this house with nosey noses and curious paws. So I got a device which will kill the mice - supposedly humanely - with electric shock. Ya just pick up the trap and empty it into the trash. THAT I can do.

They're cute. But I cannot kid myself there is only one in the house. Smudge caught one.

He brought it to ME, where I was sitting in my recliner. It was still alive.

Since then, I still hear mice in the house, and sometimes from two different areas. Usually in the kitchen, and also from behind the entertainment center. What the heck could a mouse want back there???

Once these RatZappers arrive, I hope to eradicate 'em. At least in the house!

 

[Turkeyrangler]

Just an FYI for all you using Victor mouse traps. Use peanut butter non chunky rubbed into a small, very small piece of cotton ball and then place that very well into the small hooks on the trap pan. It's almost impossible for them not to set off the trap if you set it very lightly. Works most every time for me. Very few get away after I started using this method. This works for rats and weasels as well, although with weasels a bit of chicken liver ground up and rubbed into the piece of cotton works better than peanut butter. You will need to use a rat trap for the rats and weasels, but the method is still the same.