Mouse Problem

[Folly's place]

My birds can catch their own mice!
Mary

 

[Taj_MaChicken]

Wait, what?

You’ve gotta cat that never sleeps?

I'm pretty sure my mouser sleeps like 18 hours a day.

And the mice here that escape the snakes make it inside the house, not the coop.

 

[ocap]

I put a mouse trap in an area where my hens could not get to it before or after the mouse was caught

 

[Saaniya]

Forget the sound machine! The old style wire snap traps work best, as traps go. It takes practice to set them, but they do well. Buckets, as described, work for some also.
In the face of a real mouse invasion, poison bait is best. The bait stations can be placed in a box or cage so only rodents can enter, and most poisoned rodents return to their tunnels and die there. Any found can be disposed of in the garbage, never left outside!
Check your coop for access points, and fix whatever you can.
Chickens are not able to hunt or kill rodents, or anything else, at night. That's when the 'mice will play'!
By the time you notice mouse poo and see them, it's likely that there are MANY!
Mary

I am just afraid If we accidentally kill the mouse
Here traps comes like a small cage we set a piece of food and he locked himself in

 

[Saaniya]

Make a bucket trap, they work really well to catch mice.

My friend makes them out of tall 5 gallon buckets with lids and drills a 2" hole in the side near the top, right under the rim. That way he can put the lid on to keep his dogs from licking off all the peanut butter.

A dowel is threaded through a drill hole under the big hole, through a tomato paste can (nice small diameter can) and out the other side of the bucket. Put peanut butter on the can to attract the mice and put 3" water in bottom of bucket (anti-freeze in winter) to drown them when they fall in. Warning, don't put the lid on tight or you will slosh water out the hole trying to get it open. We only snap it in 2 places - the lid is to keep the dogs from licking off all the peanut butter from the can.
We also put a piece of wood as a ramp from the floor to the dowel - place that side against the wall.

This is so cool idea I will try thiz

 

[Saaniya]

My birds can catch their own mice!
Mary

Wow
I think my roosters are so damn afraid they didn't even chase a bug

 

[Saaniya]

I put a mouse trap in an area where my hens could not get to it before or after the mouse was caught

That's what I will do ..they come in night last night I close all windows they didn't come i.cover up all feed bowls

Today will get traps and set them.at night