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[FORENSICA]

Hi, I have successfully cleaned whole shed and put all pellets and corn into plastic boxes so no mice are living in there now.

 

However, my cat occasionaly catches a mouse and brings it alive into the house which I do not appreciate much to be honest Anyway, yesterday he actually came with two within one hour! I went with him to see where he was waiting for them and they must be coming from under my neighbour's fence and straight to my chooks feeder.

 

Now, what do I do? I would like to get rid of them, so I got some snap traps and one humane trap (bait eaten, mouse nowhere to be seen) from previous trial in the shed. However, I can not use the snap traps outside of the chicken run as the cat could get injured and if I place them inside, then the chooks could get their foot in in it in the morning. The humane trap was useless in the shed so I can not see how it would work outside.Poison is out of the question obviously.

Does anybody have an idea what to do or has been successful with any other type of trap?

 

Any help will be greatly appreciated!!!!!

[Chucky1]

Not much help I'm afraid but our girls love the odd mouse or frog to supplement their diet.

 

Do your chooks let the mice steal their food?

[FORENSICA]

Yes, it seems like it. I have seen the mice coming for the food during the day too. But that was when the fencing was leaning on a shed, and that way the cats could not get to the mice. Now there is a free space where the cats can go and so the mice are coming only in the night I think.

[Egluntyne]

so the mice are coming only in the night I think.

 

I'd bring the food in at night.

[FORENSICA]

Thanks Egluntyne. It seems like a good idea but then they will wake us up in the early morning because they will be hungry. And I reckon that the mice would come for the leftovers on the ground anyway. But I will consider it, thanks.

[Debaser]

I use a treadle feeder.

http://www.flytesofancy.co.uk/chickenhouses/Galvanised_Treadle_Feeder.html

 

If you do get one of these make sure your chooks know how it works before you take there existing feeder away.

 

Cheers.

 

Dan

[C&T]

You can buy snap traps that are fitted and enclosed in a box.

 

Bait it, the mice go in, and then trigger the snap trap in the usual way. Cat's etc are protected by the box, and so can't get caught themselves. (Nor can the cats get at the body, which will save that being delivered to you in your house should your cats have the urge...)

 

It's a bit like a bait box - but with a snap trap inside instead of poison.

 

TBH - I have had more success with traps not in boxes - but might be worth a try where other animals are so obviously at risk, and they are cheap enough. Got ours from Homebase I think...

 

Either that, or close the chooks up in their coop for the night, and put normal snap traps in their run. Then you can just remove them before letting the chooks out in the morning, and again, being shut in the run, the cats are safe.

[FORENSICA]

Very interesting ideas, thanks!!

[Old Speckled Hen]

Can you not just live and let live,let them share?

Is a little mouse worth less than a chicken?

[FORENSICA]

Can you not just live and let live,let them share?

Is a little mouse worth less than a chicken?

 

Well I suppose I could. I do not dislike mice, however they destroyed some stuff in my shed and constantly been leaving droppings and pee everywhere. But the fact that my cat is bringing the mice in the house in the middle of the night (waking me up) and on occasion leaving eaten bits of it on the floor is the major issue. I have a toddler at home and one baby on the way and I do like/need to sleep when I can. We did not have a single mouse for 3 years before we got the chickens and so if I had to choose, the chickens and the cats are staying. The mice preferably not.