OMG, Big Mouse inside the Coop!!!

[leasmom]

I came home to give the girls a treat and check on them and I notice they were sqwalking like a predator was near but not like they were TOO alarmed, kind of like I was disturbing them but I noticed my Cochin was outside of the coop looking inside a little, and so I looked in to find a big mouse inside. I tried to open up the egg door but it ran out the other door.

Our coop was built by a woman and child using free materials, and the door I have on it doesn't close all the way so it could still get in. What do I do??? I'm scared to use poisons just in case they get ahold of it...do I buy a bunch of bricks and then jack up the coop???

 

[morelcabin]

Mice can jump...you'll have to figure out a way to fix the door

 

[mrsengeseth]

Gosh, I am surprised the chickens didn't get the mouse. Mine are pretty good mouse catchers...and mouse dispatchers...

 

[leasmom]

This one was pretty big...I guess he eats lunch there all the time!!!

This was at 1 in the afternoon, right now they come in and out as they please...how do I fix the door where they can get in but he can't?

 

[lizard7]

I had this problem too. Solution was a mouse trap inside a box with a small hole so just the mouse can get in. Put the box outside the coop and set it until you stop catching mice, where there is one there are more.

 

[moonlitfarms]

I have a mouse problem too! Has anyone tried those sound things? You plug them in and they put off a high frequency sound.

 

[Enchanted Sunrise Farms]

i tried one of those sound things once and it scared the heck out of my cats.

leasmom, are you sure that wasn't a rat instead of a mouse?

 

[leasmom]

Positive. It was just a very well fed mouse.

 

[conny63malies]

THey show those mousetaps on Tv that look like little black round boxes with a hole in it,the mouse goes in and the box shuts.Mouse is trapped and killed and you dont have to touch it , just throw the whole thing away.

 

[Hobbley_Farm]

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I agree with this. Just sort out a box that the chickens can't break into and put a mouse trap in it. There are also mouse traps that already come in boxes...they use a super sticky goo to catch and contain the mice...it probably wouldn't interest the chickens too much.