Curses, mice.

[fried1765]

Click me for live mice video by MinnesotaEric

Click me for live mice getting shop vacced video by MinnesotaEric

Wow those Minnesota mice must have had a rough winter!
They ate the fenders too?

 

[caver]

Wow those Minnesota mice must have had a rough winter!
They ate the fenders too?

:laughing::laughing::laughing:

 

[EddieWalker]

Amazing that they even got up there. All that glass and they still found a way.

We've been raising chickens for a few years now and noticed the mice population explode shortly after the chickens. As messy eaters, their is food all over the place for them. We tried traps, poison and flooding out their tunnels with no improvement. Then we got some cats, and the difference is significant!!!!! Three years ago I killed over 20 snakes, my wife killed a dozen, our dogs killed three that I know of, and the chickens got two that I know of. Last year, after the cats started doing their thing, we all killed a dozen snakes that I know of, and so far this year, I'm at two, and the chickens are at two. Cats are a farmers best friend!!!!

 

[TripleR]

I leave the hood open on all my vehicles - when parked at home. Been doing it for a year and no mice in the engine compartments. It use to be that the engine compartments were "mouse heaven". Never had them in the passenger compartment - knock on wood.

I got three barn cats this last winter. They are doing a WONDERFUL job on all the mice. I'm hoping that they will soon turn on the pocket gophers also.

With the barn cats and the dog - I won't use poison.

3R - what kind of mice do you have? They can eat holes in a metal heater core?? That sounds more like rats.

We've never seen any rats up here, but that doesn't mean they aren't there.

I hate to use poisons too, traps haven't done any good so far. Our barn is pretty big, we keep two campers two or three big John Deeres and my 5740HSTC, lot of area to cover.

 

[RoyKing]

My neighbors cat hunts under my barn, but he can't get into the barn I wonder if I installed a cat door if he would venture in. Was thinking a walk the plank that would dump them outside for the cat.

 

[spitter]

Mice suck !!!:drink:

 

[MickeyDBC]

I leave the hood open on all my vehicles - when parked at home. Been doing it for a year and no mice in the engine compartments. It use to be that the engine compartments were "mouse heaven". Never had them in the passenger compartment - knock on wood.

I don't think I would leave the roof off just for the mice.

 

[oosik]

No, Mickey, you are right. However the pics that Eric the Oracle shows - I would be looking for some potent type of repellent. Unless, of course, you want to dig into that area and extract rotten little bodies every so often.

However - in my case, the open vehicle hood has totally eliminated mice in the engine compartment.

 

[blkqi]

I got them out of both of my trucks by zip tying a couple rodent bait blocks into the engine compartment every couple of weeks. I use the multiple feed bait (low potency) since we also have a few feral cats around.

It's important to clean the area as they leave odor in the form of oils and waste and that is how they navigate. I use Lysol or Pine-sol.

Repellants alone are not going to work great. If you have an ifestation you need to go on the offensive.

 

[JasperFrank]

I use to be very touchy-feelie about other living creatures. But Mice ALL NEED TO DIE. They chew through the wiring in your cars and so you never know if your car is safe to drive. They transmitted to me a flesh eating bacteria that was very difficult to cure. And you just can't do one or two traps. You have to kill all of them in the immediate area at once. Its the one Buddhist tradition that I make exception with, along with Ground Wasps, Ticks and Sketters.