ot- plugging mice holes!!

If its a barn barn, there probably won't be much you can do cause there's too many places to plug with steel wool. Steel wool works great around pipes and stuff, not barns so much. Barn cat will work great. Not too many barn cats, just one. A barn owl would do it too, but probably don't have one of them. Get the pet store guy to order you a couple of "shrews". They look like little mice, don't mind the cold, will kill and tear a mouse to shreds. They eat 8 times their body weight per day, but don't grow. They are vicious little guys. If were the size of a poodle, would eat people. If were the size of a rottweiler, would eat grizzly bears. They are pound for pound the most vicious animal on planet earth. If your pet store guy can get a couple for you, they may look cuddly and cute, wear leather gloves when you pickup out of the box. Better yet, open the box, lay it on its side, run. You're from Minnesota? I thought you guys had shrews everywhere in the woods and stuff. No? Go out to the woods and catch you a couple of them.

In the old pig barn where my grandpa and my brothers raised poultry, the rats would come up through the concrete floors. To slow 'em down, my brothers patched the holes up with concrete with broken glass mixed in. Most of those patches lasted till that building got torn down.

Donovan from Wisconsin

Mice are welcome, rats are not. I know mice can spread disease and what not, but to be truthfull, what part of farming doesn't carry some risk of disease? Mice can be irritating, but that's why extra seed goes in a steel drum with a tight lid, and we don't bale oat hay.

Donovan from Wisconsin

• Hobby farm

Stop it! See Kenny's advice below.

Barns have mice and the only way to get rid of 'em is to totally quit using the barn and remove all feedstuffs, which is why they are there in the first place.

Not trying to push ya around, but you're working in an equivalent of a black hole there Ol' Son. :>)

Allan