Single hen

[craftyhunnypie]

Yes - last night, my cat ' Holly' went and sat near to the eglu staring into my bushes. I thought she was watching flies as she soon gave up. I tucked the hens into bed & shut the eglu door, then came inside but left the back door open!

Then next minute the cat comes running in with a tiny field mouse in her mouth, plops it down so proudly and the damn mouse is running round my house!!!!!! It did run out again, but I could have killed my hubby. She shouts in his loudest voice ' Holly's got a mouse'!!!!!

I don't mind field mice, but if neighbours hear that, they will associate them with the chooks! Even though Holly cat used to occassionally bring me a field mouse or vole before we ever had any chickens!

 

Emma.x

[hillfamily]

Husbands and their loud voices

 

Our cats are always bringing in mice and have been for the 11 years prior to the arrival of chooks

 

In fact the other day I was in the lounge thinking there was a strange smell only to discover the remains of 2 dead mice under the sofa I had heard Jack Cat chasing something around the lounge in the middle of the night a few days beforehand but couldn't find anything in the morning so assumed he had taken them back out into the garden or had eaten them

[The Dogmother]

we get the same Pamster - plus birds, voles and newts! I've tried training them to bring in tenners, but to no avail!

[xChicken04x]

yeah, our cats are always bringing us mice. my dozzy cat likes to not play with them but wash them and carry them round like kittens she's never been one to eat her prey.

[Olly]

such a regular occurence since I moved here (and well before I got any chickens) that I have a stock of 'humane' mousetraps. I used to think my cat Welly was on a mouse-rescue mission, he just kept bringing them in and then letting them go.

 

The New Year's Eve mouse, five minutes before I was due to drive to Norfolk to stay with friends, was a real treat ... it took 11 days to catch that one. Peanut butter worked in the end ... it kept nicking the chocolate out of the trap and legging it!

 

I don't think having chooks has anything to do with the mouse population.