You don't have a mouse problem

[fishhead]

Trust me. You don't have a problem compared to this farmer. I'm surprised the hogs didn't eat them but maybe they were already full.

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[Danaus29]

I would MOVE!!!!!! How can a problem like that ever get that bad without someone realizing it??????

[fishhead]

Maybe they stay out of sight during the daytime. They need a pack of terriers to keep the breeding population down when it rains and they get a bumper crop from the fields.

[hippygirl]

WOW!!! Can you imagine the STENCH?

[brosil]

guinea hens will eat those. Get some cats or snakes.

[gibbsgirl]

Good grief. That video looks like something that's be on the that's incredible TV show. So glad our rodent wars haven't been as big as that at our place. My goodness that was a lot to contend with!

[light rain]

I try to be tolerant of wild life but that was awful. I agree with the post about where are the cats and snakes. Even though this is a cyclical occurrence I wonder if humans have gone and done something to the natural predators.

That over population of rodents could be the breeding grounds for many diseases, both animal and human.

If people could catch them, dispatch them and cook them up for animal food or fertilizer maybe there is a profit to be made and encouragement to reduce the numbers. Each little mouse has a certain amt. of calcium, protein and iron within it.

[SJSFarm]

Yuck and double yuck!!
I recall seeing a video about it years ago. One segment that sticks in my head is when they were speaking of how after a few days of it the cats simply ignore the mice and the accompanying video was of a few fat cats laying down and mice running all around and over them and they couldn't care less!

[fishhead]

I think the key point to controlling them is to reduce the breeder population as soon as favorable breeding conditions are predicted. If they kept terriers on the farm they might be able to keep the population down. Since terriers kill just to kill they would keep killing the mice even if they were well fed.

They could be composted or frozen for animal feed. Our hogs would eat chickens so I would expect them to eat mice too.

[Forcast]

just dont see how you could not know... think of all the feed that went missing

[fishhead]

I wonder if they weren't living in the fields and came into the barn once the crop was harvested leaving the fields barren with no mouse shelter. That would concentrate them suddenly.

[Maura]

Fishhead has a logical answer to the why.

Mice with enough room and food multiply very quickly. I think I would make several bucket traps to begin with and spend a day dealing with the drowning the pests. I’d dig a ditch and toss the dead ones in, let them fertilize the soil. I’d then find a couple of nice young rat terriers. I’d not use poison because you’d then have all these mouse carcasses everyone, including inside the walls.