Thank you Laura. We have 4 outdoor cats ,but they are so well fed that they are too lazy to do anything. Besides they are all old tom cats who have had "the operation",even tweety birds don't interest them. Just meal time.
We leave the little door open from the coop to the outside covered pen so they can get out in the morning in case I am late feeding them.My husband put some tin hats on the feeders last night and there were no dropping in them this morning.
We don't use poison either and no to that sticky paper. Did that once and I felt so bad for the mouse that I made ed pull it off the paper and put it outside.
--- In CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com, "Laura A. Roberts" <laura0554@...> wrote:
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> It's that time of year and the rodents are looking for warmer
> places, too. You could close the door at night and that would take care of
> it at night, but mousies are out and about during the day, also.
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> We have cats. That is my solution to rodents..lots of cats.
> Ours came from the horse barn where we board and all eleven are spayed
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> I don't use poisons, but I suppose traps would work, if you
> aren't squeamish about emptying them. Don't use the sticky boards! They
> don't kill the mice and I think they are cruel....the mouse starves to death
> if not put out of it's misery by you and they are terrified. I don't want
> mice, but I don't want to inflict unnecessary terror on any species.
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