my feed room is infested with MICE!!!

[Sapphire Sebright]

Chickens can certainly eat mice -- I've seen mine go crazy for them when we toss out a dead one from a mousetrap. Just as long as the mice haven't ingested any poison, it should be fine.

 

[50-45-1]

I recommend the 5 gallon plastic bucket with snap down lid. One 50lb bag of feed fill two buckets. They can be purchased at any box store farm store or hardware. I can move them easily and they double duty as a chair to sit on and visit with the girls.
The large metal garbage cans will produce condensation and mold or rot your feed in the bottom in some situations.
Mice are gross pests!

 

[Mtnboomer]

Find a black snake. Aka black rat snake. Give it about a month.
Sounds extreme, but im not kidding. I find black snakes in my yard every spring and summer. I pick them up and place them in my garage, wood shed, and well house. We purchased our house 2 yrs ago and it along with all the out buildings were also infested with mice. I have yet to kill one this year.

 

[Mtnboomer]

Chickens can certainly eat mice -- I've seen mine go crazy for them when we toss out a dead one from a mousetrap. Just as long as the mice haven't ingested any poison, it should be fine.

Yep! Mine actively peck and kill mice in our yard. I have never spotted a single mouse or dropping in their coop. I have even seen the roosters chasing off squirrels

 

[Sapphire Sebright]

Indeed. Chickens are truly vicious creatures.

 

[Morrigan]

I had a massive mouse infestation a couple of years ago. Keeping all the feed in mouse proof containers and snap-trapping helped, but it was a running battle. What finally did the trick was truly mouse proofing the shed that I stored the feed in -- replacing a loose fitting door, putting hardware cloth over vents, etc. I always make sure the door is shut except of the seconds I'm in there getting feed in and out.

 

[Chickassan]

Your chickens don't eat snakes?
Im amazed!

Find a black snake. Aka black rat snake. Give it about a month.
Sounds extreme, but im not kidding. I find black snakes in my yard every spring and summer. I pick them up and place them in my garage, wood shed, and well house. We purchased our house 2 yrs ago and it along with all the out buildings were also infested with mice. I have yet to kill one this year.

 

[Folly's place]

Metal garbage cans work fine for feed. mine are in the coop, up on blocks over rubber stall mats, and with an empty feed bag in the bottom of each. Then, the feed stays in the bags it came in, so each garbage can holds two fifty pound bag of feed.
Plastic or rubber containers are easy for any rodent to enter!
Snap traps work pretty well, and making the storage room as rodent proof as possible.
Having the right cat helps too!
Wild mice also carry some nasty diseases, ticks, and Leptospirosis in their urine.
Mary

 

[Mtnboomer]

Your chickens don't eat snakes?
Im amazed!

They probably do if they find it in the yard. Or at least peck at it. The 89" black snake i caught last year would have been a lot to handle. Other than the wood shed, the chickens do not have access to the places i put the snakes. They dust themselves on the floor of the wood shed, so i put the snxkes up in the wood pile itself.

 

[50-45-1]

Indeed. Chickens are truly vicious creatures.

Well, they are dinosaurs after all.