What did you do in the garden today?

[akroberts1085]

I got the pomegranates picked and now I'm going to weigh them to see how crazy my canning is going to be

 

[WthrLady]

We're up to 43 over the course of 4 trapping nights. This is the worse I've ever seen it, but we're coming off years of drought, and we're still green and the fertility rate of these monsters is insane.

Sadly, they've out smarted the bucket tip traps, and the snap traps, and you obviously can't poison in the chicken houses.

I've had to resort to large, rat sized glue traps, which I loathe and are terrible, but with the cold nights, they expire from hypothermia.
I lock the hens up at dark and screw the traps to boards so they can't drag or tip them, then go out in the morning and get them out of the run before the hens get up.

By watching the cameras, I can see about a dozen more, out there. So I'll keep going.

I also have single mouse tip trap tunnels, but the older mice are too smart for them. The young ones, not so much.

The chickens don't even want to EAT mice anymore, they've had so many. It's like the end of tomato season here!

I was so tired when I posted last night that I couldn't finish my post. Was falling asleep while trying. I had to give up and just submit without explaining the photos. Lol

 

[Rick589]

Please tell me your methods for such success

We just used bait. Of course that had me in search mode for all of the dispatched mice. Eventually I was, believe it or not, able to catch them and with tail in hand smack them against a wall or something else hard.

 

[CatInTheHenHouse]

Ooh fun! Can't wait to read what you got.

Coneflower seeds! Not a lot of new-to-me seeds this year.

 

[akroberts1085]

We just used bait. Of course that had me in search mode for all of the dispatched mice. Eventually I was, believe it or not, able to catch them and with tail in hand smack them against a wall or something else hard.

I had caught mice in a wooden box my mom and dad made for me and I used a really big spatula to bash them in the head. Problem solved