I have several barns; I have to use bait. I use the jut one bait bars, warfarin bait, blue death, the green balls, dark green bars, and green bait pellet packs. My cat leaves her mice in the yard and comes in to eat. Because owls are nocturnal, hopefully no mice will be out for them to eat after eating bait. I bait under both baby barns, under the car ports, 4 rooms of the cattle barn including the feed room, under the corn crib, under the crate shed, the supply shed, and my garage. My bait bills are horrendous. I need to make more bait stations and put more of them around the premises because it's fall and the mice are moving in. I took the last 4 I made to my parents for their barns and garage.
Cathryn
rainbowsilkies MI
rainbowsilkies MI
From: deb <perchie.girl@gmail.com>
To: CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 1:57 PM
Subject: Re: Non poison mouse trap.... was Re: [CHICKENS-101] ]How many chickens in a 10x10 coop?? Now enrichment, also! :)
How about when the rodent goes from the coop outside where it gets
consumed by an owl or a house cat. Those Mouse bars use Coumedan
(Warfarin) which causes the blood to stop clotting. Look I know its in
small doses. And relatively safe. I dont care if you use it and am
glad you are responsible with it.
I just wanted to offer a non poison solution that was easy to build.
I lived in a house once that had rats the size of bedroom slippers and
believe me I used Poison for them. I made up dog proof bait stations
made of five gallon pickle buckets cut some rat holes i the sides and
top, and hung the buckets where I saw the rats going into the house. It
worked.... though I had to live with the smell of Decomp in the house
for a few weeks.
FWIW if you happen to get the wrong critter stuck on one of those papers
you can get them off by using vegetable oil. I tried that paper for the
rats and caught a couple of sparrows.... I like the idea of rolling it
up and putting it in pipe too. Brilliant.
deb "who really isn't trying to stir up controversy...."
On 8/30/2011 10:10 AM, lafleche49 wrote:
> I have yet to poision a nontarget species with well constructed bait stations. For rats and mice I use one bite bar bait. The bars are so hard that poultry cannot eat them and being locked inside a well constructed wooden box the birds can't get to them anyway. All permanent bait stations are best kept outside of the areas where your birds are housed such as a feed room or a hallway within the hen house.
>
> An alternative to poison baits is mouse paper which I have found to be much better than the best mouse trap I have ever owned. In a poultry house it can be rolled and placed inside of a 2 foot section of 4 inch sewer pipe and placed along a wall where mice are often seen. When it is full take a long stick and shove it out the other end. Mouse paper also catches snakes, spiders, and other things that can pose a threat to us and our birds. As a foot note never place one of these sticky pipes in a coop with or near baby chicks. I am sure they would get caught in greater numbers than the mice. Dean
consumed by an owl or a house cat. Those Mouse bars use Coumedan
(Warfarin) which causes the blood to stop clotting. Look I know its in
small doses. And relatively safe. I dont care if you use it and am
glad you are responsible with it.
I just wanted to offer a non poison solution that was easy to build.
I lived in a house once that had rats the size of bedroom slippers and
believe me I used Poison for them. I made up dog proof bait stations
made of five gallon pickle buckets cut some rat holes i the sides and
top, and hung the buckets where I saw the rats going into the house. It
worked.... though I had to live with the smell of Decomp in the house
for a few weeks.
FWIW if you happen to get the wrong critter stuck on one of those papers
you can get them off by using vegetable oil. I tried that paper for the
rats and caught a couple of sparrows.... I like the idea of rolling it
up and putting it in pipe too. Brilliant.
deb "who really isn't trying to stir up controversy...."
On 8/30/2011 10:10 AM, lafleche49 wrote:
> I have yet to poision a nontarget species with well constructed bait stations. For rats and mice I use one bite bar bait. The bars are so hard that poultry cannot eat them and being locked inside a well constructed wooden box the birds can't get to them anyway. All permanent bait stations are best kept outside of the areas where your birds are housed such as a feed room or a hallway within the hen house.
>
> An alternative to poison baits is mouse paper which I have found to be much better than the best mouse trap I have ever owned. In a poultry house it can be rolled and placed inside of a 2 foot section of 4 inch sewer pipe and placed along a wall where mice are often seen. When it is full take a long stick and shove it out the other end. Mouse paper also catches snakes, spiders, and other things that can pose a threat to us and our birds. As a foot note never place one of these sticky pipes in a coop with or near baby chicks. I am sure they would get caught in greater numbers than the mice. Dean
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