Getting rid of mice from gardens?

Question

we have a little family of mice under our water butt and my mum would like them gone asap, this is because we have a vent leading into our living room about 2 meters from where they are nesting. As we have a field behind us, we want to capture the mice and then let them go in the field, how is the best way to go about doing this?

thanks

Answer 1

you need peter piper

Answer 2

Cats, Mice Traps and Mouse Poison

Answer 3

The best way to keep mice away is to keep all areas clean and neat (no wood piles, only properly stacked, no junky areas,etc). Seal off all cracks, screen off any pipes or areas that ventilate. Add a few cats in the mixture. Moving the mice sounds much easier than it actually is. They are very fast and they do bite! Plus for every one you see, there are at lest a dozen that you do not see. Eliminating from an area so near a field is not feasible, so just try to keep the area neat and seal off any openings to the house.  

Answer 4

There's two ways of capturing them alive. Rentikil make a live mouse trap http://www.choiceful.com/choiceful-id-18... or place the neck of a milk bottle on a brick using blue tack to hold it in place. Mice can't climb back up the glass. With either trap chocolate is the best bait.

Agree you might think about travelling further than the field they originally came from, they aren't exactly going to need a map and compass to find their way back and even if you killed them another family will replace them.

Moving the water butt or changing its stand so as to not encourage mice is a suggestion.

Answer 5

C-A-T

Answer 6

If your field is more than 500 metres away then OK.

Otherwise your mice will come back home.

Just remember how effective mice are at breeding!

Make sure that your home is totally secure from mouse ingressions. That include right up to your roof.

Answer 7

The mice are there because there must be a good and regular supply of food in the garden. You cannot erase them from the garden, they don't realise that they are not wanted so other ones will come in in their place. I bet your mum feeds the garden birds, mice love bird food. I have several mice in my garden because I have several bird feeders out there. One of the mice was extremely cheeky and would climb onto the bird table in broad daylight and one day I went into my greenhouse and there was a mouse sitting eating a bulb on the shelf.

Fortunately I am not worried by them but they drive the dogs crazy so occasionally I catch some of them in a live trap then release them a long way from the garden. The chances of them coming into the house are very slim as they have everything they need outside. These will be field mice so they prefer to be outside. They best way to keep the numbers down is to get a cat but even that won't drive them all away, the cat will try bringing them into the house to play with before they kill them. Convince your mum that they are harmless and they wont bother her, they will disperse soon anyway for winter coming. They are really funny and cute little things and amusing part of the country side.