Monday, August 29, 2011

Re: [CHICKENS-101] ]How many chickens in a 10x10 coop?? Now enrichment, also! :)

 

I'll put the alfalfa up on the roost in the main barn, covered with a tarp.  I took McDonald cups from the large lemon-aid with strawberry cups and put mouse bait in them for the feed room. (My husband buys the drink-shudder.)  I melted peanut butter in the microwave and mixed just a bit on mouse bait with a plastic fork in each cup.  I put them where the mice will find them.  I also use  plastic containers that angel food cakes and other products come in.
Cut 2 holes by the bottom, put the mouse bait w/ peanut butter inside, put the lid on, then put outside of the barn with a piece of wood or a small brick on the top.  I started getting after the mice early.   I save anything I can make into a mouse bait station that rain can't get into that I can throw away after the bait is gone.
Last time I put fly bait in pop, under the little barns, corn crib, and the tool shed, there were dead mice all over the yard and garden, plus a little opossum. There were no obvious mouse holes in those areas.  I have to lock my cat up to make sure she doesn't go near it, just in case.  Speaking of opossums, we caught two more last night.
Cathryn
rainbowsilkies MI
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Subject: Re: [CHICKENS-101] ]How many chickens in a 10x10 coop?? Now enrichment, also! :)

 
Yes Catherine, my local feed store manager suggested the alfalfa. Do you have trouble with mice and rats possibly nesting in it? I'll keep mine in a shed near the coop. Haven't seen a mouse yet out there ( coop or shed ) but we've got mice in the house all year long. Always at least a couple and we're overrun with chipmunks outside. Come to think of it since Irene, haven't seen nearly as many chipmunks.
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