Aussie Finch Forum

unbelievable

Looks like the buckets containing talon blocks in my shed. Always get broken into before I get use them all. Very believable. Any plastic garbage bins I keep outside always end up with a hole chewed through them at the base eventually too.

wow, tiaris what do you store your seed in?

Through trial and error I have learned to use galvanised steel garbage bins available at Bunnings or Mitre 10

shnapper20 wrote:wow, tiaris what do you store your seed in?

My seed is all kept in chest freezer shells (dead freezers) in a mouse-proof bird room.

Plastic containers DO get brittle after a while.
Metal should be the go.

Allways had my seed bags sitting there for a couple of years. Then noticed holes in them, plenty of mouse activity. Now store them in plastic bins from Woolies, 20ks at a time. 4 years now, Talon mouse feed stations. No probs.... but used to store the dry dog food in similar type of plastic in the kitchen. One night rats came in and chewed through the plastic on the kitchen benchtop. Talon, talon. talon.

Very lucky though that aviary is "rat" proof but not so much mouse. Just keep up the bait stations.

Ok now.

Ken.

I use old chest freezers as Tiaris does.
In all the years I have used them never had a mouse enter, the units are insulated so temperature variation does not
happen as if seed is stored in bags. So much tidier and accessable

I use a combination of metal bins and council wheelie bins and have had no problems with either.

Have been fortunate to have had very few mouse problems over the years. I permanently have several bait stations at various points in my shed and am very careful not to leave any possible rodent food sources (seed spills open containers etc)

To date it has worked fine

Alf 63

thanks for the replies, I have a variety of baits. traps etc. The baits are in the aviaries, where as the traps are in the garage. I have 2 labs who im sure would devour a bait if I left one lying around, even in stations its a worry as mice may drag part of the bait to where the dogs can eat it, any suggestions ? I like the idea of chest freezers, ill keep my eye open next hard rubbish day. I winnow a lot of seed in my shed, I probably need to be a bit more diligent with the clean up.