Friday, February 12, 2010

We found evidence of mice in the kitchen and trapped 5 last night! How many more are there?

We used the good old wooden traps. Have never seen them during the daytime and have not found evidence of them anywhere but the kitchen....We found evidence of mice in the kitchen and trapped 5 last night! How many more are there?
if you got 5 in one night there's probably 50 more to go.


check for openings to the outside, they are probably going in and out, they can get thru a crack 1/8'; or a hole the size of a dime easily.We found evidence of mice in the kitchen and trapped 5 last night! How many more are there?
Well look in the attic for evidence I bet you will find fecal matter all over. They can crawl along wires check all little cracks and seal them up also have lights out to see day light coming in. They have babies every 28 days, so you could have a lot more then you think. And if there is a lot of fecal matter around it should be cleaned up this causes problems. Don't use Poison as they will crawl into places and die and rot which will cause a different problem for you. Keep sealing and trapping and you will win.
hard to say mice can breed like crazy you might have gottn lucky and killed most of one litter but if the females are already breeding they will overtake your kitchen and house in no time


they can have up to 8 babies or more every month gestation is only 21 days just keep putting traps out until you stop trapping them and they stop showing up
It's not uncommon for you to have 9 or 10. I rented a home once, and saw droppings..I put out a trap, and the thing went off 5 times in like 20 mins. Its almost like roaches...if you've seen one, there are almost always more. They breed like crazy, and come from all over the place. (including your neighbors). Keep your traps out a week or so, and see if it stops. You may only have one family or two of mice. Consider a cat as well! LOL
The bad weather drives them inside there field mice check for any holes that they can enter through block them with somthing.you can also get poison you have children not a good idea to have poison another idea get a cat they usaly help.Hope this helped a bit
keep puting the traps out till you dont catch anymore! fall is when its getting cold and mice are looking for a warm place, so they maybe just comming around now, but they may have had babies, young mice.
Get some steel wool and stick in every hole you can find they do not like chewing on the steel wool.I did this and it works.

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