Hi,

i have a avairy with bugies in it but i have a problem with wild mice that 'Live' there and they have been eating the budgies food and leaving their droppings every where! i just wondered if there was a Safe way to get rid of them ... i don't want to use mouse traps as the budgies are on the floor of the Avairy sometimes and might get caught! also i think that the poisons you can get are harmful to birds too.

so if anyone could suggest something that would be Great!

thanks

Mice going through budgies food and water sources will make the budgies sick and die....so the need to fix this is urgent !!

 

Put all food sources up on pedestal platforms that mice cannot get up onto. Nothing they can gain a foothold on. No food dishes hanging off the mesh because mice can crawl up the wire onto it. Got some bait boxes for poison and put them around outside the aviary...mice can get into the baitboxes but other things cannot. If you are feeding off floor level change it all...........thats bad news.

 

Soil floors in aviary ? or concrete ?

Soil floors will mean they have a tunnel system in there and nests.

If it was me I would take my dogs in on a leash and let them source the mice and kill, but thats me and I can do that.

More information needed.

Edited October 9, 200915 yr by KAZ

thanks heaps! i have done what you said about the food and am going to get some poison tomorrow. i can't take our dog in cause she is a lab cross great dane and she would scare the living daylights out of the budgies!!oh and i have soil floors so yeah they are would probably have nests!

Edited October 9, 200915 yr by KAZ

You will need to change the fact of the soil floors.............either concrete slabs under the aviary, brick pavers, old aviary mesh ...whatever you can do. You will need to get in there and do some digging and check whats in the soil as there can be nests of baby mice actually in tunnels in the soil. My dogs dug some up the other day and were eating the baby mice they found.

If you want to deal permanently with the mice issue, you can temporarily divide the floor from the top of the aviary with some old aviary mesh......so in effect you have a suspended aviary section for the birds and the birds cant get near the actual floor, and down below you can put traps...once there is no more mice activity, remove the mesh.