Thanks Kaz, I think that That Patterson guy is wrong and a lot of people around would be saying the same thing, Maybe normal for this time of the year if we hadn't been in drought but serious, this is not normal as I and almost everyone else around say it is bad.

If not controlled it will get much worse and if it's normal how come all the bait and mouse traps in most of the stores are sold out, never seen that before.

The video clip how horriable, I would die if that happened here.

Any way No not like that thank god, but I have seen a few run across the yard.

 

Thanks Nubbly, yes I am baiting but I can't keep up with it, as soon as I put it out it's gone. I put one under the roof of the aviary, between the iron and the cement sheeting and went and checked it about hour later to see if it was getting wet because it is raining now, WHICH means more mice, ugggrrhhh, any way that block was alomst gone, couldn't believe it.

So far Jake grabs the mice if he sees them dead or a live and plays with them in his mouth and then spits them out. But If I do see a dead one I bin it straight away.

 

I guess tomorrow I will find heaps more in the traps and seed hopper not looking forward to that and I made to water bait traps, one with cans and one with a plate, see how they go.

 

 

a plate how did the plate one work like how did you make that ???

Oh Gb forgot to say, Sorry that you are going though this, rotten sods.

here is the link. It is really easy to make too, just hope it works.

 

http://www.backwoodshome.com/articles2/easterly110.html

Splat can you show a photo of your seed hopper so we can work out how best to stop them getting into it.

 

My seed is in one of these and nothing gets into it. Metal band tightens around the top and not even moths get past that. Holds 120 kilos of seed

Edited March 9, 201114 yr by **KAZ**

No Kaz they aren't getting into the storage bins, the seed hopper is in the aviary, it is metal seed holder with glass on the front or back so you can see how much seed is in it. This one has the glass at the back and the draw pulls out from the back too.

The seed husk fall through a small piece of mouse proof wire into the draw, it use to be in the wire in the escape part of the aviary, facing into the aviary but I took it out and sat it on a small table in the aviary, this one can't go on the wall like the other ones because of where the draw is.

Well every morning there is a mouse or 2 in behind the draw. No where else. They must think it is a safe hiding place.

No Kaz they aren't getting into the storage bins, the seed hopper is in the aviary, it is metal seed holder with glass on the front or back so you can see how much seed is in it. This one has the glass at the back and the draw pulls out from the back too.

The seed husk fall through a small piece of mouse proof wire into the draw, it use to be in the wire in the escape part of the aviary, facing into the aviary but I took it out and sat it on a small table in the aviary, this one can't go on the wall like the other ones because of where the draw is.

Well every morning there is a mouse or 2 in behind the draw. No where else. They must think it is a safe hiding place.

 

Gotcha I thought it was one of those large wooden seed hoppers kept in birdrooms for mass storage of seed.

No Kaz, Thank God they aren't getting into the storage bins. Ihave over 200 kilos of seed in storage bins, I would really cry if they got into them. I use wheelie bins for the marjority of my seed.

I am just guttered, this morning from the rain , 5 out in the old bird room that I caught god knows how many more. @ in that same aviary but this time not in the seed hopper but behind the piece of wood that keeps the seed in place , well that piece of wood has been removed. Wood shavings have been replaced everyday , well they are going for good now, at least until the problem is sorted. the other aviary is fine, so I must of solved that problem. I still have to work on the 3rd one yet but there are no birds in there at the moment.

I couldn't catch these 2 this morning because I was so scared because I one up my leg. I thought I was dead.

Anyway I went and got the vacuum cleaner and sucked them up, when I took it out side to put the soapy water in one jumped out but I did drown one.

I can not for the live of me work out where they are getting in but they are, determine little buggers. They have to be squeezing through the wire above the tin.

Anyway Greg is sick of my winging about mice so I have to shut my trap and say nothing from now on, suffer in silence.

He hasn't even helped me one little bit.

 

I caught nothing in my bucket traps.

Edited March 9, 201114 yr by splat

Greg is sick of my winging about mice so I have to shut my trap and say nothing from now on, suffer in silence.

He hasn't even helped me one little bit.

 

 

If they were ruining his pigeons ? he would soon have it sorted out. He's not the most supportive man around is he

NO he is p...... off at the moment. I have to sit there and listen to all his talk about work and I am never rude even though I am not interested because I don't even know these people.

The only reason the mice are getting because he did a crappy job building them in the first place. SO really it is all his fault.

The rotten gaps that I really didn't know existed, specially in the old birdroom unbelievable. But as for the aviary, they must be going through the rotten wire that is above the tin. As far as I can see all gaps are sealed.

The stench I am so sick of it.

See with his pigeons he is lucky because they don't have seed there all the time, they get fed at a ceratin time of the day and that is the only seed that is there, Most times the pigeons eat it all in one go, no seed hanging around.

Budgies need access to seed at all times. plenty of seed for mice. Ugrhhhhhhhhhhhh

UPDATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I think I did it.

Checked the aviary this morning and I had one in the trap in the escape part and a live one in the aviary I have not yet done, it was in the corner just sitting there so I got the courage up and banged it with a piece of wood.

I went into the other 2 aviaries where the birds are and I couldn't see any signs of them, NO SMELL either. Doesn't mean much BUT Maybe I did did it.

Yesterday i found a couple little spots in the wire where they could squeeze through so put a few more screws in, I put clear PVC about 7 inches deep along the very top on the wire next to the roof because they could be coming down from there, which I think they are.

I also put wire up the top of the middle one.

Today I am working on the one that is empty because I am sure that is where the ones that I caught last night are coming from.

I caught nothing in my buckets as yet.

Out in the old birdroom I caught 5 in the traps and nothing in the bucket. Greg got 5 in the shed.

Jake found 2 in the yard but I took them off him in case they were baited, luckily he only licks them and doesn't eat them yet.

Once I finish this last aviary I am going to work out there but that is a huge job.

I caught 3 in the house last night, not enough traps to catch them all, little suckers, sick of it

I think I have good news, I think I have bet the little suckers, after sealing every little nook and cranny, and screwing wire to certain parts and stuffing bits of poly bats and glue in certain places, I believe I have done it. YES!!!! YES!!!!YES!!!! YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

There is NO smell anymore, and I haven't found a mouse in the aviaries at all in the mornings. GREAT.

Today I finished the 3rd aviary and tomorrow I will be doing the new perch set up and then the birds in the indoor part are coming out away from those rotten mice out there. Because I noticed yesterday that they are getting in there now.

 

I caught 5 in the snap traps in the birdroom this morning, none in the other part though but evidence that they have been in the aviary part though.

I caught 2 in the plate bucket trap out near the out side aviaries. Last night I made up some flour and cement and put on top of the out side aviaries and one down the side where they are coming from my next door neigbours place, I have seen them go in the whole under the fence, and last night just before dark I saw them come from the same place and jump over to the aviary. I noticed that they were in the flour mixture because there were little foot prints everywhere in it.

Today I put some out in the birdroom and plus another tin bucket trap, SO have my fingers crossed I get some tomorrow.

 

Tomorrow after I do the perches in the 3rd aviary Greg is going to help me move some breeding cages so I can block off some areas out there, I had a look today and I think I can do it, the aviary looks harder BUT where there is a will there is a way.

God I hope can block them out.

Couldn't believe it today i got 5 mice in my plate water bucket trap. Yesterday i got 2 in it.

My tin water bucket traps in the bird have yet to trap a mouse. But the plate one works like a dream.

 

The outside aviary is totally finished and I am now waiting for Greg to get off his lazy but and move my breeding cabinets so I can start work out there but looks like it won't happen today.

He got out of bed and straight on the couch and hasn't moved since and it is now 1.55pm. And he isn't even sick today, unbelievable.

The DRAMA continues!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This morning I found 7 mice in my plate water bucket trap couldn't believe it.

I only got one in the bird room.

Today I moused proof most of the indoor aviary and half the first part of the bird room. Can't do much more until Wednesday now, out of wire.

Seems ongoing mate

Getting there Kaz but taking all my time though.

I have a show next weekend and the weekend after but I can't see myself having the time to get them ready. I have been spraying them but not as much as I would normally do but they are not really show caged trained, have being to scared to leave them in any small cage for long periods and plus I have been far to busy.

I normally have them in flight cages by now so they are quite for the show and the build themselves up but can't do that either and finding the time to despot them, just not enough time in the day.

I am actually more excited about putting them down to see what I get this year than showing actually.

So I guess I will decide in the next couple of days what I will do.

Today I got 5 in the bird room, every trap was filled, Out near the outside aviary I got 4 in my plate water bucket, they ate all the bait so I missed out on get any extra, the little guts, The other buckets none again , so I am going to change them over to plate ones today.

Good news though, there is NO sign of them in the out side aviaries so I managed to mouse proof them and I am very proud of myself, but they are all around them at night all over the aviaries on the roof just everywhere.

More work today out in the old bird room, out of wire though but I can still do some things to block them out.

urrghhh, Geoff was asking me about the snake today and I said it must be gone or it is having a great feed on the mice.

Well today at about 5 o'clock Jake went crazy, barking and carrying on but instead of going for what ever he was barking at he was more careful, he would bark and then step back and bark and step back further, not normal behavior for him, his bark was very concerning. So Greg got the shovel and his boots on and went to investigate, this is near the back veranda where we sit, along side the fence every year cherry tomorrows grow, self seeded I guess any way its keeps us in tomatoes for ages, but not anymore, Greg carefully lifted up the bushes and he saw the tail go under the fence, he said he wasn't sure because it was so fast. So he carefully pulled out all the tomato planets and cleared the area. I told him that I would never pick another one from there, because I normally just walk in amongst the plants with out any thought, never again.

Rotten snake and rotten mice, I am so sick of it all. I am catching baby mice and now the say we have a plague coming, on its way, what ever that means anyway I thought we already had a plague.

At least my out side aviaries are totally snake proof and I am 99% sure mice proof, have found any evidence of any since I finished mice proofing it. But those baby mice are so small, they can fit in the small wire I think.