No mice this year..so far..

[bunyip]

Being a charitable sort of a bloke I am concerned for your lack of mice and will quite happily donate the ones we have here, just forwaard me an address and I will take care of the rest....

 

[oosik]

Watch out there - Tomtint. Those "mice" you get from bunyip might be able to leap long distances......

 

[ruffdog]

I have been trapping mice year round for a few years now....it is a pain to check traps often though. We have noticed the tick population has dropped dramatically too.

My TC33D had a cozy spot for mice to build a nest up behind the dash so I zip tied a Fresh Cab rodent repellent bag in that location. I keeps the mice away and the bag smell is nicer than mouse smell.

 

[bironacad]

I have been trapping mice year round for a few years now....it is a pain to check traps often though. We have noticed the tick population has dropped dramatically too.

My TC33D had a cozy spot for mice to build a nest up behind the dash so I zip tied a Fresh Cab rodent repellent bag in that location. I keeps the mice away and the bag smell is nicer than mouse smell.

Ticks are on the rise here north of the boarder. Warmer weather. Sounds like the mice are doing well around other places so must be a predator keeping the numbers down here.

 

[dog13]

No mice so far this year either -- this guy may be part of the reason. Our barn is half a mile from the nearest road, so not sure how this cat found its way to the barn but I suspect he is doing a better job of mouse management than the cut up bars of soap that have been placed around the equipment.

 

[bunyip]

our main problem is when there are a lot of mice there are also a proportionate number of snakes nearby to enjoy the feast, as we have hay and other horse feed there is little we can do to rid the place of them, we do use baits but it doesn't eliminate the problem and no matter how secure you make the sheds they will always find a way in.

 

[fried1765]

They all are up here, vacationing. We have a bumper crop this year. I had to pull the blue Styrofoam out of my crawl space, I never knew that mice would burrow into the stuff but they destroyed it. My neighbor has killed over a hundred mice in just one of his buildings. Sometimes when I go up to check on my turkeys I see one of the little buggers climbing in to get some feed. Downstate my mother has been catching them all fall, last week I made her a bucket trap but they had finally tapered off about a week earlier.

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[Jstpssng]

^^^
Thanks but ever since I killed a cat with secondary poisoning, I try to avoid it.

 

[oosik]

The tick situation here in north Ea WA state is, of course, over for this year but otherwise it was noticeably light this year. All I've ever found in the 37 years out here are wood ticks - no deer ticks.

If you have a bucket trap - lots of mice - the situation can get pretty gross.

 

[check]

No mice so far this year either -- this guy may be part of the reason. Our barn is half a mile from the nearest road, so not sure how this cat found its way to the barn but I suspect he is doing a better job of mouse management than the cut up bars of soap that have been placed around the equipment.

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That Kat definitely looks like a killer!