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Fighting mice - forced and necessary measure.
Small rodents cause serious harm in homes, summer cottages and backyards, gardens and fields.
In addition, they multiply rapidly, constantly increasing their population.
Common Methods
Ways to get rid of mice can be divided into cardinal (aimed at destruction) and humane (deterrent).
Chemical
Is to use poisons of chemical origin... It is recognized as the most effective and fastest, but not cheap. The disadvantages include risk of poisoning people and animals.
ATTENTION! The chemicals can act very quickly (zinc phosphide) or gradually build up in the mouse (coumarin).
Application methods:
- Bait. The poison is added to the rodents' tasty food and is located near their habitats.
- Pollination. The poisonous powder is sprayed where mice live. Clean rodents get dirty in the poison and begin to peel it off their skin, licking it.
- Aeration. Rodent-infested areas are treated with poisonous gases. They enter the body of mice with the air. Hydrogen phosphide, carbon dioxide, chlorine, sulfur dioxide, ethylene oxide and carbon dioxide can be used.
Physical
Implies using glue traps and mouse traps, pouring boiling water over the minks, filling the minks with a mixture of glue and foam.
There is no way such a method won't hurt people, but it is also ineffective against mice. Physical means will help to catch or destroy single specimens.
Biological
Small rodents have enemies in the animal kingdom. They use mice as food, especially when they hunt them. These include owls, martens, cats... The latter may well help in the fight against harmful rodents.
IMPORTANT! Not all cats are good mouse-catchers, in addition, in any case, they will not be able to destroy all the livestock of rodents that have settled nearby.
Means of fighting mice in the photo:
Scare away
The repeller helps in the fight against mice by electronic means - this is the most modern and innovative method that does not cause them any harm at all.
Scarers with ultrasound emit signals inaudible to humansbut unpleasant for rodents. They cannot withstand such a neighborhood and leave the site.
The scarers are mains or battery operated and can be used anywhere. Devices have been developed to combat mice in the field, in a private house, apartment, room, greenhouse or greenhouse.
Not the slightest harm to people and pets... The main disadvantage is the relatively high cost.
ATTENTION! At the moment, this method of struggle is considered the most effective, safe and fast-acting.
They do not always and everywhere help. It is absolutely impossible to prevent mice from settling in a large field planted with cereals or entering a large garden.
Prophylaxis
Prevention works only in closed rooms and in small summer cottages.
- Keeping clean. Rodents are attracted by mouth-watering odors that exude plant, food and feed residues. Therefore, they must be disposed of immediately.
- Proper storage of supplies and food. They must be carefully packed and placed in places inaccessible to mice.
- Clean regularly cowsheds, calves, pigsties and chicken coops, freeing from the remains of feed and waste products of animals.
- Sewer openings and close ventilation frequent metal nets.
- Store grain and food stocks only in premises with high solid foundationwhich will make it difficult for mice to get inside.
- Constantly inspect risk areasby detecting the arrival of pests in a timely manner.
Fighting mice with folk remedies
IMPORTANT! Barriers between fields prevent rodents from moving from old fields overgrown with grass to new ones planted with valuable crops.
To combat mice in the fields, use poisoned bait, which are laid out around the perimeter and inside the field.
It can be done mechanically or manually... The latter method is more effective and safer. The poison is placed inside the mink and trampled so that the birds do not see it.
To fight mice in a private house with folk remedies it is recommended to combine several methods immediately, using poisoned baits, mouse traps and glue traps.
If possible, get a cat that will not only reduce the number of mice, but also scare away the rest.
How to deal with mice in the country and at the site? Experience shows that a combination of methods gives the best results.
- Attraction of all surrounding cats to the site and simultaneous installation mechanical traps.
- Acquisition helps a lot mouse repeller and a cat-hunter. These two "devices" are perfectly combined, working in the same direction.
- The most dangerous and risky method for health - gassing or pollination of an infected area. It is carried out only in the absence of residents.
Mousetraps are placed only where pets and small children cannot reach!
Most of the folk remedies are aimed at scaring away rodents. For this harsh smells of chemicals and plants are used.
- Forest and peppermint. You can lay out bundles of grass in the habitat of the mice.
- Sagebrush. Mice can't stand it and try to get away. Wormwood grass can be laid out not only in cellars and basements, but also under haystacks.
- Kerosene, formalin, turpentine. If you spray the premises with these substances, the rodents will surely leave them.
- The smell of burnt rubber. You can take a piece of an old tire and set it on fire.
In order to radically get rid of the mice by physically destroying them, the people came up with other means.
- Mix wheat flour with gypsum in equal shares and place in the affected area. Place containers with water nearby. Mice happily eat such a mixture, unaware of its destructive effect.
- Works no worse mixture of semolina with putty or sugar with quicklime.
Conclusion
To be guaranteed to get rid of mice in the country forever, it is always recommended to combine several methods at once.
Video
To fight mice in an apartment, in a country house and in a private house, this interesting video will help: