Andrei
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Cat.
Do not feed the cat.
Do not feed the cat.
Mice!
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Azriel
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What has worked well for me with mice in the coop, don't know if it would work with rats, fill a bucket with oatmeal to get the mice used to eating out of the bucket, then fill the bucket with water to within a few inches of the top and sprinkle the oatmeal over the top so it floats. The mice will think its still feed and will jump in and they don't float so well.
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Lots and lots of reusable snap traps. The bait does not go into the little circle they tell you to use. It goes way in the back, so they cannot just stick their hand in and pull it out.
You can use 5gal buckets filled with 3in of water, soda can covered in peanut butter w/some rabbit food stuck on, then skewer it and stick it through the lip of the bucket on opposite sides. Mouse jumps onto food, can spins, mouse falls into bucket.
You can use 5gal buckets filled with 3in of water, soda can covered in peanut butter w/some rabbit food stuck on, then skewer it and stick it through the lip of the bucket on opposite sides. Mouse jumps onto food, can spins, mouse falls into bucket.
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VickieB
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Right now I've just been using D-con. I put it in a wire dog crate and set it by the rabbit cages. None of my animals can get into it, but the mice and rats can. I haven't seen any in a while now, so it's still working. I know that eventually they will catch on, and I'll need all the ideas I can get, so thanks to all of you. I'm loving these ideas!
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I will have to try the tomcat. We have cats in our shop where our rabbits are and we've never seen mice in there. They are there on occassion, but I think only 'pilot' mice that go exploring to tell other mice about where food is. Once every few weeks we find a cat with a mouse in its mouth, but very rarely.
Our coop, however, is in a bad way with mice. I think the ducks we got a month or so ago have just now started eating them, because they're no longer in the food containers. It took me all summer to put a finger on why I kept losing chicks, and i have a feeling its because they were pecking at and eating mice feces. It wasn't cocci, mareks or any other thing I've ever treated as nothing helped. As an organic-type person, I caved and threw everything I could get my hands on at those babies and nothing worked. Someone on another forum said "Do you have mice?" No, I thought. I picked up the food hopper a couple nights later to move it and mice SCATTERED. I was HORRIFIED. I'ts been a fight ever since.
Our coop, however, is in a bad way with mice. I think the ducks we got a month or so ago have just now started eating them, because they're no longer in the food containers. It took me all summer to put a finger on why I kept losing chicks, and i have a feeling its because they were pecking at and eating mice feces. It wasn't cocci, mareks or any other thing I've ever treated as nothing helped. As an organic-type person, I caved and threw everything I could get my hands on at those babies and nothing worked. Someone on another forum said "Do you have mice?" No, I thought. I picked up the food hopper a couple nights later to move it and mice SCATTERED. I was HORRIFIED. I'ts been a fight ever since.
