Hanging your feeders so mice can’t jump up is important.Ī feeder that can keep the chickens from flinging their feed can help with feed waste and excess food for mice. Probably the biggest threat with mice is contamination of feed with their urine and droppings.īut in all the years I’ve kept chickens, I’ve found they are happy to have mice as a snack. In all my years of keeping chickens, I have found that mice will be with us. I never had skunks bother that pen again nor had any chicken foot problems from the wire floor, but mice and the occasional rat would still get in.
I kept 2-3 inches of wood shavings on top of the wire. I’d had predators digging under and killing chickens. I used ½” x ½” hardware cloth on the floor of one pen for years. Mice can climb screen and wire, so unless the entire pen is covered in ¼” x ¼” wire or smaller, with no gaps anywhere, I think you are going to spend a lot of money and energy to attempt mouse proofing and fail. All it takes is one little gap and one or many will squeeze through. I wish you the best of luck mouse proofing.
(We will also make the entire run mice proof). Is this OK, and if so, what kind of covering should I use. I want to put a screen wire on the ground of the chicken run to stop mice from entering, and then put a thick covering on top of the wire.
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