Ideas on eradicating Mice

[waynomelb]

Ok i've built an aviary and did not take the necessary precautions on making it mouse proof.

I have mice and at the moment they are outsmarting me.

Can i please have people ideas on how i can start winning the battle.

So far i have tried Mouse Traps, bait and box trap. I have caught mice but there are still more and have stopped taking the peanut butter off the traps.

Wayne

P.S If this topic has been covered a link to the discussion would be great.

[bleeding green]

Mice can smell death so if you use the same traps all the time without thoroghly cleaning them they won't go near a re-set trap.
You have to get to the root of the problem - where are they getting in from? Once you can solve that and hopefully fix it then you can try and catch whatever is left inside.
I see so many aviaries with wire (12mmx12mm) down to the ground and people swear that they don't have mice, but I have seen mice get through that wire with my own eyes like it's not even there. You need a mouse barrior around the bottom, and a good footing or solid floor to start with.

[shirltra96]

find out where they are getting in cover the holes with large plastic containers set mouse baits, make sure your birds can,t get to the bait, i tried traps for months all kinds of bait (pumpkin seeds works well) but i never catch them all, soon after they took the little bag of poison no more mice.

[Greg41]

Try this , Bromakill granuals mixed in with chocolate flavoured biscuits and next to that a dish of water with a dash of
Bromakill liquid.
Cheers Greg.

[gomer]

Firstly I would try to modify the aviary to stop them getting in.Then have a thorough clean up to remove any food source on the ground and also stop them from getting to existing food.Next put down bait stations in every aviary and leave them there all year round,check them regularly for signs of mice.I have one in every aviary, 95 % of them have never seen signs of mice,since the bait stations went in,While a couple of aviaries are always the first to be infiltrated,But as long as there has been bait there, that's as far as they have got.

[finchbreeder]

Mice have been a problem here the last couple of years. But at the moment I don;t have any. Not recommending the solution though. Husband just disposed of a metre long brown snake who had been appearing in the avairys at 10/7 day intervals for 6/7weeks. As it got a little over enthusiastic and visited Fri/Sat and 3 times Sunday. The last visit did not end to the snakes satisfaction. We had been over the avairy with a fine toothcomb looking to see how the snake got in. Dug over the entire floor about 30cm deep. Nothing worked. Yes - up the mouse holes faster than I could fill them in. And poison and deep foundations had not worked. The good news is that despite living with bush on 2 sides and seeing snakes round the avairys most summers I have only ever lost 1 fledgling Zeb to them. Snakes hunt by smell according to what I have been told.
LML

[jusdeb]

bad here after the floods , poor hubby is digging down around aviary and laying mouse mesh ...every side he does stops them for a few weeks then they find another way in ....

[Roy]

We had a mouse plague in my area last year and this summer is quite bad for them too. I have found that traps are pretty much a waste of time and that poison is the only real way to get rid of them and once you think you have killed them off continue to leave baits around to take care of any newcomers. I have also found that the pellets i.e ratsack green pellets are useless as they will consume ten packets before you notice any decrease in mouse activity, the best baits I have found are the wax blocks like Tomcat, talon and the ratsack 1 feed 1 kill blocks. You can go to town on your avairy trying to mouse proof it but at the end of the day if they cant get into your aviary then they will sure as hell get into your house instead.

[grasswren]

I use bromakill grain bait all year in bait boxes and I dont have a problem in most of my aviaries. In the large walkins, I locate the holes and put a little down the holes then cover them, it works well, under no circumstances allow the mice to spred it around.

[waynomelb]

Thanks for all the ideas.

Will try a few of them.