my feed room is infested with MICE!!!

[aart]

I opened the container with the dog food in it and it was disgusting. the food had started to crumble up and it smelled very stale and yucky. good news though, no mice droppings! no mice had been there in over 40 years (one sign on the wall actually said 1981)!!! gross but awesome! I will definitely be using the containers once I give them a good disinfecting! hope it works!

Was the kibble (I assume) in a bag or just loose in the metal barrel?
Might be a date on the bag...just out of curiosity.
Good no sign of mice, that could have smelled worse.

 

[proudchickenmom]

it was dog chow inside of a large (maybe 50 pound) bag. I didn't think to look for a date on the bag though ... I will look at it later

 

[charlie1463]

I use an old freezer that holds about 12 bags of feed. I lost both my cats to predators so mice have been an issue.They are in everything including vehicles doing major damage. I ve made very sucessful bucket traps. This is one of my favourites even managed to get packrats.

https://www.amazon.ca/Rolling-Log-M...296281&sprefix=spinning+mouse+,aps,297&sr=8-6

Hope this helps

 

[diandoodles]

I just read the other day that mice don't like peppermint. They said to mix some peppermint essential oil with water and spray it around your garage and probably where you keep your feed. I am going to try it and will let you know if it works.

 

[Avian Allie]

Please don't use glue traps. They are so cruel. My dad once caught a baby bird in a glue trap and it suffered a lot before it died. He wanted to save it, but couldn't. Nothing with a brain deserves to die that way.

Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely hate glue traps too. But with so many corn fields around us we get BAD mice infestations. After as many humane traps and everything else aside from poison we could find the mice were still horrible, glue traps were our last option and they worked. You just have to check them daily and swiftly kill the mice on them. Also, they can be folded into boxes so no birds will get caught in them. It sucks, but when you have mice that can cause major health issues and are destroying feed and bothering your animals you have to do what you have to do.

 

[Ebony Rose]

Glue traps will easily release unintentionally caught victims if you pour cooking oil on the bird, lizard, cat or whatever else (other than mice/rats) gets stuck in it and gently work the oil into the feathers/fur of the unintended catch.

 

[aart]

swiftly kill the mice on them

Just how do you do that?

 

[Rooapalooza]

Glue traps will easily release unintentionally caught victims if you pour cooking oil on the bird, lizard, cat or whatever else (other than mice/rats) gets stuck in it and gently work the oil into the feathers/fur of the unintended catch.

I'm glad if you have been able to do that. Like I said before, my dad called me a few years ago, frantic and upset, because he caught a baby bird in a glue trap. I know he tried oil, but even then he could not get it loose without tearing it apart. I don't know how common that is.

 

[Avian Allie]

Just how do you do that?

When you find them Put the entire trap in a plastic grocery bag and hit it with a Shovel or likewise. It sucks, but it works.

 

[Avian Allie]

I'm glad if you have been able to do that. Like I said before, my dad called me a few years ago, frantic and upset, because he caught a baby bird in a glue trap. I know he tried oil, but even then he could not get it loose without tearing it apart. I don't know how common that is.

I'm glad if you have been able to do that. Like I said before, my dad called me a few years ago, frantic and upset, because he caught a baby bird in a glue trap. I know he tried oil, but even then he could not get it loose without tearing it apart. I don't know how common that is.

I’ve actually had some friends of mine(they work at a rescue) deal with a bunch of glued animals because someone had put sticky traps on telephone poles. Apparently veggie oils works best, and then you have to treat the cooking oil like an oil spill and use the same protocols to get it off before release. Some made it, a lot didn’t. But when used responsibly are they less dangerous or less cruel than a bucket trap?