Mouse Plague

[straightshooter]

Has anybody had personal experience of this year's mouse plague?
If you have, in which region?

[Oldbloke]

I drove over a heap down Inverell way a bit over a week ago. Lol

[Oldbloke]

Interesting mouse trap.
I think peanut butter is a popular bait

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[Skinna]

No plague...but...Have noticed a few running across the road & in paddocks lately while out spotlighting & driving at night.
Havent seen this for a few years so i wonder if this winter is going to be a a messy one in the sleeping quarters.

Throughout some of the Mallee regions in SA

[on_one_wheel]

Numbers are high in the southern mallee but not in plague proportions. Even if we get good rains in the next month or two they probably won't plague, there's not enough grain on the ground to support it here.

[wanneroo]

I saw some video/pics today on a US gun forum, I'm like get me a flamethrower. It looked like the Biblical end times.

[Dandry]

We have a property near Coonabarabran; loads of mice around and we’ve had bait & trap shortages in town. Driving up here on Thursday night the roads were full of mice in places. They’re just tiny fieldmice but they eat anything (my chainsaw case has been chewed at...) and they stink...

[womble]

We should introduce Canadian Elk to eradicate the mice.

[on_one_wheel]

We should introduce Canadian Elk to eradicate the mice.

ill vote for that

[Die Judicii]

There are literally thousands where I am,, has been for the last 4-5 months.
See em crossing the roads in the headlights,,, see em all over the paddocks,, see em out in the bush.
They glow brilliant white in the thermal.
And in the last month they've moved into the sheds and the house.
The bait shelves in Bunnings are the same as the Dunny roll shelves in Supermarkets were during the covid panic.
As fast as you bait, you have to replace and I'm sure that even more mice are coming in for their cousins funerals.
I've set up the star wine bottles over buckets of water in the sheds, and they always have drowned mice in em every morning.

The last lot of the red baits I bought ($75 worth) The big cheese brand said on the label "Fast Kill" ,,,,,,,,, but when you read the fine print it says
it takes 4 - 5 days before they die.

That's not "fast" in my book.

[bigrich]

Interesting mouse trap.
I think peanut butter is a popular bait

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couple off inches of water in the bottom and this trap is perfect

[Oldbloke]

Interesting mouse trap.
I think peanut butter is a popular bait

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couple off inches of water in the bottom and this trap is perfect

Yep, I think the dude just forgot.

[Oldbloke]

"I've set up the star wine bottles over buckets of water in the sheds, and they always have drowned mice in em every morning."

How do you set that up Die Judicii?

[Die Judicii]

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"I've set up the star wine bottles over buckets of water in the sheds, and they always have drowned mice in em every morning."

How do you set that up Die Judicii?

Simple, Water in bottom of bucket,, bacon or similar in bottle neck,, tape around base of bottle for mice to climb on,, they think they've got
a free feed,, but can't grip on the bottle neck, and slip into water and drown.
Bucket and base of bottle put where mice can easily climb onboard.

[Oldbloke]

Maybe oil on the bottle neck and a board so easier for them to climb up

[Oldbloke]

From another forum.

Used a mix of plain flour and cement powder. Put into trays around the house. Then make sure there's plenty of water options outside for the mice.
They eat the mix, get real thirsty, find water, water and cement powder, I reckon you can work the rest out.....

[on_one_wheel]

Equal parts plaster of Paris and grain works well too. Death by constipation.

[Oldbloke]

Equal parts plaster of Paris and grain works well too. Death by constipation.

[Insert random name]

I used oats and cement powder when the bastards ate all my bread and it was a long way to go back to town. It worked.

[MJW380]

They’re everywhere where I am (Gunnedah, Northwest NSW), have been for the last 3 or so months, but in the last month especially. I work in an animal food factory and it’s been unbelievable the amount of mice and rats that we’ve had lately. They’ve got to the point where they’re hardly bothered be people anymore. Been losing so much stock to rodent damage it’s not funny.

[Blr243]

I have seen other traps where the bucket top is fitted with a balance style walk the plank set up ... as soon as the mouse walks to a certain point he’s too heavy and the plank tilts down and he falls in.

[Oldbloke]

I have seen other traps where the bucket top is fitted with a balance style walk the plank set up ... as soon as the mouse walks to a certain point he’s too heavy and the plank tilts down and he falls in.

That's smart.

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[cz515]

Ahh nice thread. Mice and rats... esp rats the size of 2 grapefruits is what keeps me on my toes, something abouts unlimited supply of feed around here.

So my suggestion don't goto bunnings, their rat bait is like lolly water to a 2 year old.

There are two main types of poison, one is the general stuff like bunnings, the vermin needs to eat it 3 times for it die.. this is just incase a pet dog or cat eats it you would have plenty of dumb upset owners yelling at the poor manager at bunnings or Coles.

I recommend looking for 1 shot kill at your local produce store, some online vendors sell them. I forget the name of the active ingredient but The one i like the best comes in 10-15kg drums (well you can get 500g bottles but bigger drums work out cheaper) and it has rice grain covered with the poison. Works a charm. Plenty of my friends have tried it abs give it their thumbs up

[Blr243]

For anyone who has never done so, google (mouse plague YouTube ). Those suckers must Be the fastest breeding / growing animals around

[straightshooter]

For anyone who has never done so, google (mouse plague YouTube ). Those suckers must Be the fastest breeding / growing animals around

So the environmental tentacle of the NWO has been softening us up to eat insects.
Maybe they might turn their attention to this alternative fast growing protein source.

[cz515]

Just wait for the zombie apocalypse from the cronavirus jab. With shortage of food people left will be looking at all the options.

[JohnV]

They’re everywhere where I am (Gunnedah, Northwest NSW), have been for the last 3 or so months, but in the last month especially. I work in an animal food factory and it’s been unbelievable the amount of mice and rats that we’ve had lately. They’ve got to the point where they’re hardly bothered be people anymore. Been losing so much stock to rodent damage it’s not funny.

We went through a plague at Gunnedah once when I worked on Kurumbede out the Bluevale Road . Now part of a coal mine .
Shame to see the Historic Mackellar homestead , going too seed . It was the home of Dorothea Mackellar who wrote , Sun Burnt Country poem . It was where she wrote the poem not their property at Scone . History was recorded wrong due to the Mackellar's wanting a private residence and using Scone as a their official office and mail drop .
History is very rarely 100% accurate . Owned by Malcolm Waugh when I worked there who was a manager I think for the Mackellars in his early years . I don't think it was as bad back then as this latest plague .

[womble]

Next up is the funnel web plague. They live in the ground and don’t want to drown. Buildings and homes will be their refuge.
They are much angrier than mice. They are like permanently agro plus they can back it up.
Just goes to show, things can always get worse.

[Bugman]

Funnel web control, easy. Just get a heap of ducks or geese, they love eating them....apparently, Bit messy inside though, so I've heard.

[Gamerancher]

We've got them in ever increasing numbers here. Constant job baiting them around the sheds and silos. They've destroyed the barley hay I made last season. We've got a bunch of traps set in the house and it keeps us busy emptying and resetting them. Might have to try a couple of these bucket trap ideas above.