Another mouse subject!!

[Mel7610]

?? Ok I may need to appologize for a silly question but I know in the aviaries that the mice are attracted to the seed and any other food available,
but would they take baby finches?
I know i had 3 babies 6 days old yesterday and today there are 2 and there is a mouse hole!!there was no sign of it on the ground.

[Bergerak]

Hi From my experience mice generally disturb the nest but I don't think they eat baby birds .I could be wrong .I suppose the key is to really be diligent to stop the mice getting in I use that mouse wire around the avairys. And make sure your entrance door has a very small gap at the bottom.Because there is nothing worse than mice in an aviary...

[arthur]

It may be debatable as to whether they eat baby finches

BUT

They will certainly eat the seed which is in the crop of a young bird

AND

Rats will eat anything

Now, on to frogs

People say that frogs do not eat bird's eggs . . They may not

BUT

They certainly eat the young birds which hatch from the eggs

Protect your birds from all three

[amalan11]

I have had mice all my life and domestic mice will eat a dead mouse so I would think a bird is possible,they also eat their own young if they are stressed in first 24 hrs

[djb78]

Mice eating young, well I've had dead young in the nest with crops brains and intestines all eaten, eggs will go also. I had a bad year two years ago with the only thing breeding in my aviery were bloody mice. I tried all the prevention methods bait live traps inside snap traps and bait on the outside and even poured a concrete slab on the inside but the buggers chewed trough the wooden frame to make tunnels underneath, by god did I learn from that mistake and when I've built my new aviery I did some real thinking into the plans. As I've said that mice will eat young they will also take over the nest to breed, I've also lost a few birds to night frights and I had a couple of birds lose a toe which would be my thought as to a mouse biting it. Rats are just as bad or worse never came across one yet, some lizards a snakes could also be a problem.

[teg33]

One of our baby king quails was missing, and we searched the entire aviary for him, but we figured the mice dragged him away. I have a friend who has a large aviary, and the mice and rats come in the night and kill, injure, or frighten the birds.

So I think the answer would be yes!