mice in attic

[bill88 6]

I have been awake since before 5am.Have imagined i've been hearing scurrying and scratching in the loft for weeks now,but i wasn't sure.Now i am! i can here scurrying in fits and starts,and like a scratching come knawing sound from above the bathroom.The house is less than 10 years old,and we're not dirty feckers,but we had neighbours who were.The neighbours had the house reposessed about 3 months ago, and its been empty since.They also left a lot of old furniture and stuff in the garden and some in the house.

What should be my first line of attack,i'm gonna have the day off work and try and sort it out.What should i get,traps or what? should i just buy the cheap ones and load them up with peanut butter? Had mice in the workshop,and we got one of them "ultra sonic" jobs,that seems to work.

Got quite a bit of paperwork and stuff in the loft,should i have a clear out before i start the war aginst the rodents?

 

Edited to say,what about putting the ferts up there for an hour?

Edited September 27, 2007 by bill88

[Kay 3,709]

sounds like there comfey living up in your loft

[bill88 6]

sounds like there comfey living up in your loft

And there was me thinking you were gonna give me a sensible reply with some pest control tips.Should of bloody known better.

[ginga john 268]

Why not put a cat in the loft !!

[Kay 3,709]

sounds like there comfey living up in your loft

And there was me thinking you were gonna give me a sensible reply with some pest control tips.Should of bloody known better.

 

you could always make them a little activity area with a ball pool

[bill88 6]

The best thing to do mate is just poison them ASAP before they get a hold and start breeding like wild fire..

I had the same trouble here last year and decided to use trap's after catching 37 mice i started getting a bit sick.. .. so i aquirred 6 bag's of rat poison and scattered them at all the known spot's around the house and after a week it was silent with no more scratching under the floor board's..

And dont worry about the rotting smell as you get very little if at all any from from small mice..

Millet

 

Cheers Millet,seem to have tracked down the feeding spot,there was a bag of unused groundbait in my net bag I,ve removed the food source,and i've put traps down,but if poison is the way to go,i'll give it a go.We have ivy all up the front of the house,could this be the route into the attic?

 

Ps is it warfarin they still use on the rat? where do i get it? Thanks again.Bill

[bill88 6]

you could always make them a little activity area with a ball pool

 

You bloody wait,i'm giving them your postman.

[Kay 3,709]

you could always make them a little activity area with a ball pool

 

You bloody wait,i'm giving them your postman.

 

I dont want ya vermin thanks very much you keep them

[Guest Ditch_Shitter]

Are ye in uk, Bill? If so, just as well stick with Difenacoum presented in small blocks.

 

Why's this? Because Difenacoum is one of the 'mildest' baits out there, but it's still plenty man enough for mice. I suggest smaller block form because they come with a hole through them, as a rule, and ye can wire them to an anchor point beneath the bricks or what ever ye use to cover them. Little and often is the rule with mice. Small baits 'Everywhere'. But, with so many bait points dotted around, we want to keep the Ammount of active ingrediant available on ye property to the minimum. What if a Dog discovered the joys of brick kicking and bait nicking? See?

 

Ye'd might as well use the same in the roof space. If I was there, I'd give them something a bit stronger up there ~ because I'd be allowed to ~ but no need to complicate things. Either way, remember: ALWAYS READ THE LABEL! All of it.

 

Mheanwhile; Nip up there and give the wiring a good once over, mate. They bite the plastic casing. And ye might try having a word with the council, about next door. Mice utilise ALL the roof spaces in a block. So, even if ye semi d, they'll be next door too. If ye in a terrace? Everyone in that terrace should be looking over their wires and getting some bait down. Every six foot isn't too crowded for mice baits, Bill. They feed differently from how rats do.

 

Let us know how ye get on.

[jrt666 1]

fishning bait=the best mice attractor bar none,shame it dont do the same for fish well not for me it dont anyway

[new2hunting 0]

fishning bait=the best mice attractor bar none,shame it dont do the same for fish well not for me it dont anyway

yep i agree mice love it had a mouse in the basement it must of got through a crack and it ate loads of my carp pellets all the best hope you get those mice

[Ron Weasley 83]

When I'm faced with a situation like this at work, I'd bait up with an Alphachorolase, or other acute rodenticide to start with, for about a week, and I'd then change a chronic rodenticide- probably one containing either Difenacoum, as the Ditch man already suggested, or Bromadiolone.

 

As for the ivy at the front of the house- that is almost certainly an issue!

Edited September 27, 2007 by Ron Weasley

[SNAP SHOT 194]

bill a friend of mine had the same trouble, and he used, small plastic traps, in the loft, the kind you just lever back and they're set, as ditch say's a mild poision, outside, look for any small holes around the building, my friend got them in through a hole to the outside boiler, tiny as it was, he took 26 out in total,

sounded like a disco every morning about 6. keep laying the traps till you get nothing for about a week, good luck.

[stubby 175]

my friend got in through a hole to the outside boiler

 

what's he, a midget then?

 

if you can get a BIC biro pen in the hole, then a mouse will fit no problem

 

the only downside to using poison's aint the smell so much, although if you'vre got a large infestation you'll smell it, but the flies and maggots that come with all these dead rodents in ya attic

 

Id say go with the good old fashion break back traps "little nipper" using either peanut butter or cooked pasta (wired on)

or a multi catch trap

[Guest ragumup]

I normally bung a bucket of rat poison in the loft ever year and then for get it and i never get any mice since iv been doing that ,does the trick, mice love lofts and always get in there so the poison waiting for them, one the of the worse thing you can do is let an anticowalegen {carnt spell }run out before its killed all the mice or rats as they can start to build immunity to the poison