Ken05
ArboristSite Member
Ditto on the dog - my guy here will swallow the whole nest- mom,dad,babies and anything nearby in one gulp.
Mice in the woodpile
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charlesfarm
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You can take a 5-gallon bucket and fill it with about 4 1/2 gallons of water. Put a layer of oats floating on top of the water (not rolled oats, but the whole grains) Leave a board walkway from the woodpile to the bucket. The mice will jump right into the bucket after the oats, not realizing that there's water underneath. I have killed dozens of mice this way.
If you do put out poison, you'd be best to put it into a bait station so that only really small critters can get to the poison. Make sure that you secure the station to a wall, heavy board, etc so that a cat or dog can't tip it over and spill the poison out. Something like this would work great for mice:
http://hogslat.stores.yahoo.net/lt83810.html
Be sure to check the station(s) every morning and add more pellets if they're all gone. It can take more than one feeding to kill rodents.
I bought a larger bait station for rats that were eating more feed than my chickens in the coop. I put the paraffinized pellets and once they got over their fear of something new in their surroundings, they ate nothing but the poison. It took over a week of putting out two packages of pellets every day, but it finally got rid of all of them.
Hope this helps!
God bless,
Chris
If you do put out poison, you'd be best to put it into a bait station so that only really small critters can get to the poison. Make sure that you secure the station to a wall, heavy board, etc so that a cat or dog can't tip it over and spill the poison out. Something like this would work great for mice:
http://hogslat.stores.yahoo.net/lt83810.html
Be sure to check the station(s) every morning and add more pellets if they're all gone. It can take more than one feeding to kill rodents.
I bought a larger bait station for rats that were eating more feed than my chickens in the coop. I put the paraffinized pellets and once they got over their fear of something new in their surroundings, they ate nothing but the poison. It took over a week of putting out two packages of pellets every day, but it finally got rid of all of them.
Hope this helps!
God bless,
Chris
