Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[Sammster]

She is OK. Still keeping to herself. I touched her between the legs and feels bloated compared to the others. But she is eating.

On the other hand, I had to get d-con mice bait boxes because saw about 6 mice at night roaming in their yard. Hoping these knuckleheads do not destroy the box to get to the candy,lol

Can you at least put the dcon inside a cage, that the mice can access, but not the chickens? I'd be worried the chickens might eat the poisoned mice

 

[chickflick]

If the mice can get in, they can get out. Wouldn’t use poison at all

 

[Folly's place]

I'm using Victor live traps, the metal ones that can catch multiples overnight. Then they take a drive elsewhere into wild areas. Individual snap traps (the old wood and metal spring traps) work well in places the chickens can't access.
We have used bait, in secure bait stations, next to the coop, when we had rats. Mice are easy, rats are more dangerous and smarter, so very difficult to trap.
Most rodents will return to their burrows and die there, but it's not guaranteed.
Mary