Mice

jimbo · Guru

Mice

Happywanderer · The Master

Rat pellets or traps with peanut butter on it. Good to see Echuca hasn't been forgotten by those darn mice.

Cruising Granny · Guru

I've been negotiating grasshoppers and locusts on the roads of SA.
I then spend my time removing the resulting "jam" off the windscreen, headlights and other extremities of my car.
If the mice plague gets really full on, the roads become quite treacherous with the slippery fur coating and mice bits. Be careful.

Happywanderer · The Master

CG. Have just been reading the local news from home, Echuca, online. A parasite has been killing off the locusts flying in from NSW which means they will now be a lot less than other years. Good news for the people.

DeBe · Guru

To stop mice chewing up wiring etc under the bonnet of my vehicles i use mothballs in plasic holders, the smell seems to keep them out & we have mice every where. Badly need a cold snap with rain to thin them out.

jules47 · The Happy Helper

Read somewhere about peppermint oil on cotton wool repelling mice - worth a try?

Cruising Granny · Guru

Don't send them this way, although they say they're coming here anyway. Stinking little furry things get into everything.

milo · Guru

ive had mice in my house overe the years at verious times,
i use the rat sack drop packs, dont know how well they work?

jimricho · Guru

I've related the story on Happywanderer's recent thread about the one I picked up on my return from my recent trip to South Aus.

ChiChi1 · Guru

Daughter travelled from Canberra to Griffith the other night. Said there were mice jumping all over the road. Also grasshoppers. Being a city girl, it took her a while to work out what they were. lol

BobnBev · Senior Member

Had this little sucker in the van some where and tried all ways to get it.. Had to get up to go to the loo one night put one slipper on then when I went to put the other one on yep it was in the slipper .I got a bit of fright and dropped the slipper ..Yep it was back in the van...made a big effert and got it the next day.. nothing worse than a mouse in your van.....

jimbo · Guru

Well! It seems too me that the mouse is not going to be removed no matter what....Some say pepermint others say no way....I just don't know what too do...They breed so fast 10 per litter and then mature after six weeks to breed again...."Wow! What a problem

jimbo · Guru

Well it seems that there is no sure way of getting rid of them...To think that they breed like mad 10 per litter and mature to breed again after six weeks.( The babies).."Wow ! What a problem we have...I guess one will have too just try and starve them

blaze · Guru

I know things like flood and fire will either kill them or make them move very rapidly but these dont seem like an option for you smile

cheers

blaze

BobnBev · Senior Member

Just up town and was talking to a friend that camped on the Hayplains, The mice were so thick that they had to get up in the night and move on, PLUS, the mice got in the motor and made the timing belt break which stuffed the motor. The racv brought them home on the back of a truck.. They have a Jayco Feit MH....that was last week.... not very happy

Happywanderer · The Master

Spent the morning cleaning out the van as thought had got rid of mice after sitting here since last Wednesday night with pellets throughout. Cleaned out the back, found they had eaten into the pellet boxes well and chewed a lot up into powder and spread throughout.
Then went to the side sliding door, remembered had left some spare towels and winter clothes under one of the back seats so took the seat out to clean that out, only for a very healthy mouse to come scurryng out, saw me and headed back and out the open back door.
This is 4 days after arriving and having pellets down all that time which proves there was more than one. Every cupboard has chewed up pellets in there, some I haven't put there so the mouse must have carried them.
Have on my list to get steel wool, peppermint oil, moth balls and anything else that weill gt me home without attracting more.
Not looking forward to picking up more on the way home if between Canberra and Griffith is that bad.

Pejay · Guru

Thanks for the warning, heading for Canberra in 2 weeks, will get some moth balls in the shopping this week to spread around the van. Pejay

jack biggles · Senior Member

Happywanderer wrote:
Spent the morning cleaning out the van as thought had got rid of mice after sitting here since last Wednesday night with pellets throughout. Cleaned out the back, found they had eaten into the pellet boxes well and chewed a lot up into powder and spread throughout.
Then went to the side sliding door, remembered had left some spare towels and winter clothes under one of the back seats so took the seat out to clean that out, only for a very healthy mouse to come scurryng out, saw me and headed back and out the open back door.
This is 4 days after arriving and having pellets down all that time which proves there was more than one. Every cupboard has chewed up pellets in there, some I haven't put there so the mouse must have carried them.
Have on my list to get steel wool, peppermint oil, moth balls and anything else that weill gt me home without attracting more.
Not looking forward to picking up more on the way home if between Canberra and Griffith is that bad.

Wow mate,

Sounds like you certainly had a few of the little blighters alone for your maiden journey.

Many years ago I was camped in western NSW at a shearing shed & there was a mouse plague. You couldnt walk anywhere without treading on them. The were running up the walls.

I fired a shot gun round to the ground and must have killed about 2 dozen of them with one shot.

There use to be a device you could plug in back home, into the 240volt, it use to emitt a certain frequency of sound which would send these little critters running. I'm guessing those devices didnt draw much power, could probably run off a cheap $99 dick smith inverter & be turned on in the evening. Any critter that got on board throughout the day would do the harold holt.

Smokeydk · Guru

My mate went over to SA Eyre Pen.....and said the mice were bad there.......ate the wiring of his Patrol over night......and ate his favourite jumper completely...ate through his plastic storage bins too......

Gerty Dancer · Guru

We are in beautiful Wilmington Bush camp dealing with mice too. They got into the Prado somehow as we drove from Balranald to here, plus theres lots of them here too. We're a bit worried they might get into the caravan but so far its mouse-free. The helpful owner here gave us a couple of baits for the tug, will go shopping tomorrow for moth-balls, peppermint oil, and more baits.
Thanks!

Sheba · Guru

jack biggles wrote:

There use to be a device you could plug in back home, into the 240volt, it use to emitt a certain frequency of sound which would send these little critters running. I'm guessing those devices didnt draw much power, could probably run off a cheap $99 dick smith inverter & be turned on in the evening. Any critter that got on board throughout the day would do the harold holt.

Never thought about that. I have one that I loaned to a friend once . She was very pleased with it. Fixed her problem in a few days.

And it cleaned my place out when I came back from my Cruise. Had been away a couple of months, and came home to find mice running over my Kitchen benchtops. Got rid of them nicely.

Cheers,

Sheba.

Ma · Guru

If anyone finds one of these contraptions let us all know. I think we might just corner the market if we can find the outlet.

Cruising Granny · Guru

Gerty Dancer wrote:

We are in beautiful Wilmington Bush camp dealing with mice too. They got into the Prado somehow as we drove from Balranald to here, plus theres lots of them here too. We're a bit worried they might get into the caravan but so far its mouse-free. The helpful owner here gave us a couple of baits for the tug, will go shopping tomorrow for moth-balls, peppermint oil, and more baits.
Thanks!

I went to Lyndhurst with a job last week, going up through Jamestown and Orroroo, and came back through Quorn and Stirling North. I saw one dead mouse at the Gladstone Roadhouse, but no others.
Locusts on the other hand were plentiful. I found the "locust jam" washed off easier than the "grasshopper jam". There has to be an upside to these things.
I'm heading to Qld this week I think, via Broken Hill.
Anything I need to be aware of through Cobar, Bourke to Roma and points north?
When I worked on the trawlers I found crickets will chew a Chux cloth to bits overnight.
Ants are still the enemy. I admire their tenacity to find a meal and nesting place, but they're such a nuisance when they find it.

-- Edited by Cruising Granny on Sunday 1st of May 2011 10:04:15 PM

jack biggles · Senior Member

Sheba wrote:
Never thought about that. I have one that I loaned to a friend once . She was very pleased with it. Fixed her problem in a few days.
And it cleaned my place out when I came back from my Cruise. Had been away a couple of months, and came home to find mice running over my Kitchen benchtops. Got rid of them nicely.
Cheers,
Sheba.

Shot gun or electronic device? wink

Ma · Guru

Think maybe the electronic device Jack the shotty might make a few more holes for those critters to get in

jimricho · Guru

BobnBev wrote:
Just up town and was talking to a friend that camped on the Hayplains, The mice were so thick that they had to get up in the night and move on,

That's where I picked mine up while changing a wheel

Smokeydk · Guru

Hey Gert....what you think of the Bush Camp ???....is the creek flowing yet??

Ma · Guru

Just had word from Firefly who is enroute to Rocky to pick up their new van.

Camped at Nindygully last night and the mice were running up the leg of her chair while she was sitting in it.

Crawled into the sleeping bag in the tent and the mice crawled up one side of the tent and used the other side as a slippery dip.

Our Coles supermarket has sold out of moth balls and bait blocks.

Father Ted · Senior Member

Ma wrote:
Just had word from Firefly who is enroute to Rocky to pick up their new van.
Camped at Nindygully last night and the mice were running up the leg of her chair while she was sitting in it.
Crawled into the sleeping bag in the tent and the mice crawled up one side of the tent and used the other side as a slippery dip.
Our Coles supermarket has sold out of moth balls and bait blocks.
I wonder if they were "Duck Billed Mice.?

jack biggles · Senior Member

Ma wrote:
Think maybe the electronic device Jack the shotty might make a few more holes for those critters to get in

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