Mouse plague in Aus....... what a mess.

[Cowmansam]

Well it’s not so much misfortune as pee poor planning pile your entire years wage outside with a sheet on top hardly good business

 

[Ukjay]

Some great fun being had there, losing everything and more eh. There is always some asshoole you don't like, but cheering their misfortune on is kind of a dick move.

Whilst I concur with your point made, it is sadly a common form that when people are known for being critically opinionated towards others and their actions / methods, it is often the case that you reap what you sow in terms of feed back from one's whom have been on the receiving end, or close to others whom have.

Someone never said it was easy

 

[kiwi pom]

Next time you have an assurance audit have that video on your office computer and hit play when the inspector starts asking about your pest control policy

 

[Bury the Trash]

Next time you have an assurance audit have that video on your office computer and hit play when the inspector starts asking about your pest control policy

I must admit I do love the banter that goes on between the Aussies and the Kiwis

 

[Steel]

Not much wheat in that shed, probably kept for sheep feed. Very little wheat is stored like that.

The mice have been breeding up in paddocks for months. Most farmers have been baiting, but the areas are to big to bait it all and there is not enough bait. As the weather is cooling down the mice are moving to sheds, houses and hay.
We had another plague about 9 years ago with higher numbers and once disease gets into them they die off quickly. I am worried the better and sooner baiting this time is stopping the population reaching numbers which cause a population crash.
They are eating young Canola plants here I am baiting Canola and irrigating some paddocks to flood their burrows.

 

[Barleymow]

If the mice are out on the paddock a set of rolls would sort a few out I would imagine

 

[cows sh#t me to tears]

Mice.....another piece of s**t thing brought here by inbred aristocratic filthy prìcks. If you bàstards had "worlds best practices " when you were so "superior" we wouldn't have your stinking rodents that came on YOUR row boats....

 

[Cowmansam]

Most of you wouldn’t be there either

 

[Cowmansam]

Lot of anti British sentiments from a lot of not very aboriginal looking people

 

[cows sh#t me to tears]

If the mice are out on the paddock a set of rolls would sort a few out I would imagine

Simple answer. No. They dig deep burrows.....
Ploughing.....No...They dig deep burrows.
Burning stubble... No. They dig deep burrows
Irrigating and flooding burrows. No. They leave they're burrows and wait till they dry out.
Cold weather. Was recently irrigating and it was 3°c one morning. 5am. Watched a mouse swim across channel.

It will run its course as it has in the past.

 

[cows sh#t me to tears]

Lot of anti British sentiments from a lot of not very aboriginal looking people

Lot of people on here wishing a LOT of misfortune on fellow farmers as @Gerbert said too.

 

[Cowabunga]

The standards of grain storage in the video is pathetic it’s no surprise the mice get in surely that only has to happen a few times for a proper grain store to pay for its self

You would surely never pass the Farm Quality Assurance with grain stores like that in the UK. Our grain stores must be rodent and bird proof. Imagine someone eating that grain as bread or breakfast cereal Not fit for cows either as it is probably saturated with Lepto, which makes it Weil's disease in humans. Very nasty and costly.

Could burn it in power stations of course, if there are power stations in Australia that can process it. That's by far the best thing to do with the grain and straw seen in that video .

 

[Cowmansam]

I don’t wish misfortune on anyone but can’t help thinking if this is a regular cycle that when you get good weather you get mice wouldn’t it makes sense to be prepared to store you very valuable crops in a mouse proof store i understand there’s not much can be done out in the fields

 

[cows sh#t me to tears]

As said at the start of the story (and just for reference ACA is a pathetic sensationalist program) that would have been for stock feed only. Any grain marketed for export or human consumption is either sold direct at harvest to bulk storages OR if self marketed in proper silos or grain bags. Yes grain bags are an issue in this situation. But most people load out of them first.

 

[Dukes Fit]

From what I was told they get one every 12-15 years or so.
My friends out there told me you couldn't buy a 2nd hand knackered fridge for love nor money as everyone was buying them to keep their crockery and foodstuffs in.
It was the only thing the mice couldn't get in to.

 

[cows sh#t me to tears]

Despite 4 pet cats. We have numerous mice in the house. Wife has already had to turf a lot of stuff. Yet they are not as bad as they were in 2010. That year they were directly responsible for burning 3 houses down in our shire.

 

[holwellcourtfarm]

And we moan about the odd badger!

 

[Chae1]

Most of you wouldn’t be there either

The mice arrived on same boats as the convicts.

They bred at the ports and continued inland.

 

[Clive]

Farm level assurance ? imports mixed with ours ?

Red Tractor ? …… bullucks !

 

[cows sh#t me to tears]

Farm level assurance ? imports mixed with ours ?

Red Tractor ? …… bullucks !

If you honestly think we export anything that is knowingly contaminated then you are seriously delusional Clive.

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