Posted by paul on May 05, 2021 at 08:30:10 from (66.60.196.195):
In Reply to: Mice eating ear corn posted by Winchester1 on May 04, 2021 at 15:58:37:
1. Rat terrier dogs. Crosses are often just as good or better.
2. Cats.
3. Move the corn into a structure the mice and rats cant climb. That is more difficult than it sounds.
We are having troubles keeping kittens around here, with no dog the bigger garments are coming in and killing the little kittens. Have a batch now in the machine shed, they and their mom go poop in the gravel side of the shed. Its a problem but I much prefer that to having no cats.
Tom cat walks past the outdoor camera 3 times a month with a rabbit in its mouth, it doesnt parade the smaller catches he makes. The momma cat stays away from the camera but I know shes working when shes outside.
Back in the day when I ground feed out of the crib we had an orange and white kitty, when I would start the grinder tractor in winter she would run to the corn crib. She knew the corn was going to be disturbed and an easy meal was coming that day.....
Grew up with cross rat terrier dogs, they are very persistent at killing things. Almost had to do some building repair now and then. But it was worth it, they really keep the rodents down. I had white rabbits in a pig part when I was a kid, the barn was not animal proof. I remember the day a cottontail got chased into the barn by the rat terrier, he was very determined. He jumped into the rabbit run and out again, he wanted to kill that cottontail! But he left my pet bunnies alone, they were on his approved list..... not that I would trust that 100%, but he knew what were pets, the bunnies and the cats, and anything else was fair game......
Poisons can work for a small population where you can control the feed sources. If you have a shed and remove and seal up any food source and put out poisons, it will work. In a crib or trainers or feed shed, no way. The feed or grain is more tasty than the poison, you wont get them to consume the poison in any quantity. If you get rats, they have a social structure where they learn what kills their buddies and refrain from eating that. You need to rotate the type of poison pretty often and really work at it with poisons. But wont work if they have free access to real grain and feed.
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