Mouse poop in feed

[LoneOak]

Any feed or hardware store will carry many styles of mouse traps and baits. What rottnwarrior is describing is a basic mouse bait station that is designed to put poison bait in, the mice go in the station and eat the bait and die in less than a days time. You can buy extra bait blocks and empty the station and refill it with new bait blocks or you can get ones that are totally disposable with the dead mouse inside. Generally these stores will have a section on a shelf that has several different rat and mice traps and baits for you to choose from. There is no reason for anyone to have more than the occasional mouse show up, you don't have to put up with them hanging out all the time. They are nasty little buggers

One of the best ways to dispose of one still alive in a trap is to dunk it into a bucket of water while it is still captured in the trap. It only takes a couple minutes for them to drown.

 

[ChickenJerk]

Mice are considered enemy number one in commercial poultry houses and are not tolerated at all. They are considered the worst of all sources of salmonella contamination. They can infect the birds and the products.
Commercial poultry houses have mouse bait stations every 15 feet around the perimeter of the building and traps are placed inside. Management of the outside bait traps has to be documented and the capture of a live mouse inside the building has to be reported.
That is how serious the commercial poultry industry and the government is about controlling mice.
If you see "30 mice at a time" you are overrun with the infestation.

 

[mm22kids]

I was told by a very smart man that don't feed your chickens food that mice have walked on the pee on the food and that can kill the chickens. I have huge rats not cute little mice so we get the food trays of poison put it high on the rafters so the chickens don't eat it and it works before long.

 

[Granny Hatchet]

thanks everyone for the mice advice! i have seen 30 at a time and they are discusting, i was told if u use poisen and the chickens eat the mice it will kill them so thats why i havent used it but will def. go get a few traps. again thanks

 

[rottnwarrior]

I don't use poison in mine but like loneoak said those traps are made so you can use it. I personally don't use poison because my birds are meat eaters through and through and will decimate a dead mouse before I ever knew it was there. So I keep it far away from the coop.

 

[Granny Hatchet]

so u use poisen but not by the coop? ive seen mine eating mice and my cat too. doesnt the trap work without posion? like a one way door, mabey put peanut butter in them?

 

[rottnwarrior]

I use poison in the attic of the house which is well away from the coop. I use the traps we spoke about without it. I put a small handful of chick feed in it since the mice love it and check it a couple times a day. Then like I said I feed the mice to the fishes haha. I don't use poison anywhere that the sick mice could wander into the chickens and get eaten. But that's just me.

 

[Granny Hatchet]

sounds about right to me. will be glad to get them nasty things outa here. thanks

 

[rottnwarrior]

It may take some time to get it under control because like chickenjerk said, if you saw 30, there are many more that you didn't see. And the fact that many of them have babies hidden away. No matter what you do, do something. And keep on doing it. The problem won't be solved overnight. But with persistence and patience, it will be solved in time. If you find baby mice, feed them to the chickens. Then even the chicks will get in on the action.

 

[Granny Hatchet]

when i got chickens i never thought about this problem. we moved to the country and my cuz mentioned field mice and some where in the back of my poor brain i heard theres mice in the field.hahah i never expected this. think its gonna take alot and ongoing like u said but i will make a dent in them