No one ever forgets living through a mouse plague

[Farmer Roy]

‘No one ever forgets living through a mouse plague’: the dystopia facing Australian rural communities, explained by an expert

Imagine constantly living with mice. When you go to sleep they run across your bed, the stench of dead mice fills the street. As an expert on mouse outbreaks, let’s look at the issue in more detail.

theconversation.com

 

[Kevtherev]

I send @Cab-over Pete out with this during an outbreak

 

[Cab-over Pete]

I just need some string around me trouser bottoms.

 

[Bury the Trash]

‘No one ever forgets living through a mouse plague’: the dystopia facing Australian rural communities, explained by an expert

Imagine constantly living with mice. When you go to sleep they run across your bed, the stench of dead mice fills the street. As an expert on mouse outbreaks, let’s look at the issue in more detail.

theconversation.com

Sounds uncomfortable to say the least
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Does the onset of winter kill them?

 

[Barleymow]

I just need some string around me trouser bottoms.

You'll be in shorts out there , or better still budgie smugglers mice wont get inside them

 

[Cab-over Pete]

Well, of course, I would need eagle smugglers.

 

[Kidds]

Sounds uncomfortable to say the least
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Does the onset of winter kill them?

Everyone hopes so but I was reading a few days back that it can't be relied on to sort them out.

 

[Ribble]

So the feral cats are a problem, but so are the mice

 

[Farmer Roy]

So the feral cats are a problem, but so are the mice

did you even read the article ? ?
i doubt it



they are cyclical
there is no way any predator can keep up with their numbers

and feral cats would rather eat other things than stinking dirty f#cking mice.
like native marsupials, birds & reptiles . . .
feral cats are just c%nts of things anyway




PS - ALL introduced feral animals are a problem here, be it mice, rabbits, cats, foxes, dogs, goats, pigs, donkeys, horses, camel, buffalo or people . . .

 

[Farmer Roy]

Sounds uncomfortable to say the least
...
Does the onset of winter kill them?

not really, due to recent good season they have plenty of food & shelter & they also have extensive & deep tunnels / burrows

a really good hard cold snap following rain, combined with disease pressures from overpopulation & cannibalisms ( yes, mice eat mice when their numbers get high enough ), is about the only way to get rid of them

 

[Kevtherev]

Ideal for Peter

 

[David.]

I remember reading about a rat plague in the 1880s, when they ate Kidman's saddle and bridle etc, bar the metalwork, overnight in the tree where he had hung it for safekeeping.

 

[Badshot]

Red tractor would love that!!!!!

 

[Cab-over Pete]

Ideal for Peter

Roast mouse on Sunday

 

[Breakthru]

Racumin foam at least they go outside to die.
I think I would surround my house and buildings with a 12"+ high board with a 210 ltr / 45gallon drop trap every 10 or 20m. The old pivot system with peanut butter at the end of stick. They worked well with rabbits and rats.

 

[7610 super q]

Roast mouse on Sunday