Ot help with mouse question.

JayinNY · Jun 9, 2011

Ok, hay season is here again, and so are the mice! I must have 100 bales the mice chewed the twine on. All that work and the mice ruin the bales. I have tried decon, bait bars, dryer sheets with no success. This year I'm gonna use moth balls sprinkled around, and try stacking the hay twine side down, I always Stack cut side up, but I I'm gonna try it different. Anybody have any good advice on how to stop the mice? Thanks for any help. Ps.. cats don't seem to stick around.

IaGary · Jun 9, 2011

Don't think I would want moth balls in my hay.

What do they do to cattle or horse if ingested?

Yes lay the bales flat so they can't get to the twines.

In all the years we stored hay in the barn we only had trouble one time, with oat hay. The mice and rats loved the grain in the bales.

Taking 35 year old bales out now and none are broke. All are stacked flat.

Gary

JayinNY · Jun 9, 2011

I was gonna put the moth balls around the barn, and around the first layer I stack on, not on the good hay I feed out. Hopefully stacking them flat will help!

Tony in Mass. · Jun 9, 2011

Yeah, I don't like the moth ball idea either. I'm not convinced it works on them in a house. Have a long talk with the cats, you need the cats to return to work... there are others, but people on this site want to shoot skunks, possums, coons and foxes.... they all hunt mice for a living... anything that eats mice is OK in my book.

wolfman · Jun 9, 2011

Mice cutting strings is a huge problem here. Only total solution is a blacksnake or two.

JDseller · Jun 9, 2011

First your hay will not cure as well if you flat stack it. Edge stacked will always cure better. What I have done for many years is put the little throw packs of Havoc between the layers as we stack the hay in the barn. When you are removing the hay the ones not touched can easily be reused. You will fine sections of just empty packs and then whole layers that are not ever touched. It is not always the bottom that is hit.

DO not use moth balls in your hay. It will ruin the hay. Many cattle and just about all horses will not eat it after it has been around moth balls. The smell will go clear through the hay as it cures. Plus the moth balls are poisonous if consumed. That is why I use the Havoc. It would take several lbs to harm any cow or horse. It is an anticoagulant.

jmohr · Jun 9, 2011

Back in 1993 we had a contract to sell straw to a coal mine reclamation crew. First year a quarter of the bales mice destroyed the twine. The next spring we bought a two year old wire tie baler. That fixed the major problem but we still have to put Ramik inbetween the layers of bales to keep some control over the mice. As a bonus we sold straw by the ton and we had some wire straw bales in the 70 lb. range. Good luck.

Bob · Jun 10, 2011

P u s s y, MORE p u s s y is the answer, LOTS of them!

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Anonymous-0 · Jun 10, 2011

Couple of blacksnakes.............

BushogPapa · Jun 10, 2011

Yea, the Havoc works much better than D-con..

Seems you are only FEEDING the critters, with D-con..!!

Ron

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