Great idea. Will try this.Yep.
Also put out tick tubes.
6-8" sections of 1 1/2" or 2" PVC pipe (the lightweight stuff is fine, doesn't matter), stuffed with cotton soaked in permethrin , Let the cotton dry before you stuff it in the tubes. Put these tubes where mice can find them. They steal the cotton for nesting material, and the permethrin kills the tick nymphs on the mice. Kill the ticks, and you break the cycle.
This is really cheap to do.