Keeping Rodents Out Of The Coop
Keeping Rodents Out Of The Coop November 28, 2021 (Eliza sitting amongst the chocolate mint near our coop!) During late fall and into winter, when the temperatures are dropping, and the field mice and rats are looking for a nice warm, safe place to spend the winter as well as a readily available food source nearby, your chicken coop is looking pretty good to them right about now! It's filled with soft bedding, chicken feed, and protects the rodents from predators like weasels, mink, and fox who enjoy a little mouse snack! Mice and other rodents not only can carry disease and contaminate the area with their droppings, they can transmit lice, mites or ticks to your chickens, and they will eat your chicken feed and chew all kinds of things you don't want them to. Not only that, often snakes, weasels or other varmints will travel using the tunnels mice dig - and that's the last thing you want. So ridding your coop and run area of mice is really important. Here are some helpful ...