Fighting mice - necessary and necessary measure.
Small rodents cause serious harm in homes, cottage and garden plots, gardens and fields.
In addition, they multiply rapidly, constantly increasing their livestock.
General methods
Ways to get rid of mice can be divided into cardinal (aimed at destruction) and humane (frightening).
Chemical
Is to use poisons of chemical origin. It was recognized as the most efficient and fast, but not cheap. The disadvantages include risk of poisoning people and animals.
ATTENTION! Chemicals can act very quickly (zinc phosphide) or gradually accumulate in the mouse (coumarin).
Methods of use:
- The bait. The poison is added to the tasty food of rodents and is located near their habitats.
- Pollination. The poisonous powder is sprayed where the mice live. Clean rodents get dirty in the bane and begin to clean it off from their skins, licking it.
- Aeration Places contaminated by rodents are treated with poisonous gases. In the body of mice get air. Phosphorous hydrogen, carbon dioxide, chlorine, sulfur dioxide, ethylene oxide and carbon can be used.
Physical
Implies the use of glue traps and mousetraps, pouring mink with boiling water, filling mink with a mixture of glue and foam.
This method does won't hurt people, but also against mice it is ineffective. Physical tools will help catch or destroy single instances.
Biological
Small rodents have enemies in the animal kingdom. They use mice as food, specifically hunting them. These include owls, martens, cats. The latter may well help in the fight against harmful rodents.
Means of fighting mice in the photo:
Scare
The repeller helps in the fight against mice with electronic means - this is the most modern and innovative method that does not cause them any harm at all.
Ultrasound repeller make signals inaudible to manbut unpleasant for rodents. They can not stand such a neighborhood and leave the site.
Repellers are mains or battery powered and can be used anywhere. Devices have been developed to fight mice in the field, in a private house, apartment, room, greenhouse, or greenhouse.
Harm to humans and pets do not represent the slightest. The main drawback is the relatively high cost.
Help is not always and not everywhere. It is absolutely impossible to prevent mice from settling on a large field sown with cereals or to come to a large garden.
Prevention
Prevention is valid only in enclosed areas and in small summer cottages.
- Keep clean. Rodents are attracted by mouth-watering smells that exude the remnants of plants, food and feed. 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 barns, calf houses, pigsty and chicken coops, freeing from the remnants of food and animal waste products.
- Sewer holes and ventilation close frequent metal mesh.
- Stocks of grain and food stored only in rooms with high solid foundationwhich makes it difficult for mice to get inside.
- Inspect risk areas at all times.By timely detecting the arrival of pests.
Fighting mice with folk remedies
IMPORTANT! Barrier barriers between fields prevent rodents from moving old grass fields to new ones planted with valuable crops.
To fight the mice in the fields use poison baitthat 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 is trampled down so that birds do not see it.
To fight mice in a private house with folk remedies It is recommended to combine several methods. immediately, using poison baits, mousetraps and glue traps.
If possible, get a cat that will not only reduce the number of mice, but also scare away the remaining ones.
How to deal with mice in the country and the site? Experience shows that a combination of methods gives the best results.
- Attraction of all neighboring cats to the site and simultaneous installation mechanical traps.
- The acquisition helps a lot mouse repeller and the cat-hunter. These two "devices" are perfectly combined, working in the same direction.
- The most dangerous and risky method - aeration or pollination of an infected area. It is carried out only in the absence of residents.
Mousetrap put only where there is no reach pets and small children!
Most folk remedies are aimed at scaring rodents. For this used sharp odors chemicals and plants.
- Forest and peppermint. You can lay out bunches of grass in the habitats of mice.
- Sagebrush. Mice do not tolerate it and try to get away. Wormwood grass can be laid out not only in cellars and cellars, but also under haystacks.
- Kerosene, formalin, turpentine. If the premises are sprayed with these substances, the rodents will probably leave them.
- Smell of burnt rubber. You can take a piece of an old tire and set it on fire.
To radically get rid of the mice, physically destroying them, the people came up with other means.
- Wheat flour mixed with gypsum in equal parts and place in the affected premises. Near to place containers with water. Mice gladly eat this mixture, unaware of its disastrous effect.
- Not worse acts mix 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..
