Mice in the house is a fact of life around these parts - wood in the house or not.
I've got a 9 trap trapline going year round in my basement. Been slim catchings lately though.
I did feel a tad guilty about all the critter homes I destroyed today moving wood.
Some little fella had spent a lot of time making a nice little moss&feather lined chamber in a hollow in my stack.
None came in with me, though
I had told the story back in April when I was splitting wood and a field mouse bolted out of the round I was splitting, and there were 4 babies in there that didn't even have their eyes open. I took them to a woman who works for a local animal rescue organization, they actually had a "foster" mouse that nursed them and they were released into the woods. I am the typical "he wouldn't hurt a fly" type guy, henceforth the "rescue"
I've brought in ants... in suspended animation, or whatever "they" call it.... they explode spectacularly in am already lit stove :DI've brought wood into the house . . . just wood . . . nothing so exciting as bees, mice, werewolves, etc.
Chickens love baby mice.....I always give them a snack when I find some!
A chicken will eat anything, I try not to feed them chicken lunch meat because that is wrong! But they eat all are other left over lunch meat.I never knew this about chickens. We've often humoured the idea of keeping a few laying hens, but never actually pulled the trigger on the idea. Just another critter around the house to take care of. We have two cats (lazy lump Maine Coone, and a rescued barn cat). The barn cat is a through and through mouser...the Maine Coone likes to lay in front of the wood stove when it's on full blaze...then move to lay somewhere else. We don't have mice per se, but we do have moles...which I just found out are carnivorous...meaning they eat mice and other moles and such. Funny little creatures if you ever catch one....I hear the super loud high pitch screech every time the little barn cat catches one!
Ian
A chicken will eat anything, I try not to feed them chicken lunch meat because that is wrong! But they eat all are other left over lunch meat.
I never knew this about chickens. We've often humoured the idea of keeping a few laying hens, but never actually pulled the trigger on the idea. Just another critter around the house to take care of. We have two cats (lazy lump Maine Coone, and a rescued barn cat). The barn cat is a through and through mouser...the Maine Coone likes to lay in front of the wood stove when it's on full blaze...then move to lay somewhere else. We don't have mice per se, but we do have moles...which I just found out are carnivorous...meaning they eat mice and other moles and such. Funny little creatures if you ever catch one....I hear the super loud high pitch screech every time the little barn cat catches one!
Ian
And celery! But we found if you rip it up they will eat it. They are a nice garbage disposal.well not quite anything... my birds don't like broccoli... they do LOOOOOOOVE the slugs and grubs I find in the woodpile..
Hate to tell you this, but mice will eat steel wool if they've a mind to. A couple of them broke into the below-sink cabinet in my kitchen by chewing through the insulation around the drain pipe, and in one night, they ate up 3 bars of soap, several sponges, both natural and plastic, and an entire box of Brillo, among other things.Maybe it's that I built this house myself way out in the woods tens years ago and I sealed every little hole and crevice but, knock on wood, I've never had a mouse in this house that I know of. Others on the road have said they use steel wool to plug the holes where mice will come into their places.
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