Worrying noises coming from the loft...rodents!

[Cousin Jack]

Poison is the answer for mice. They are greedy buggers and readily eat it, and IME die quietly and cause no problems. Small and they desicate rather than decay.

Rats are a bigger problem, they are cautious about new food sources, and they can smell while they rot.

[Supermofo]

Poison is the answer for mice. They are greedy buggers and readily eat it, and IME die quietly and cause no problems. Small and they desicate rather than decay.

Rats are a bigger problem, they are cautious about new food sources, and they can smell while they rot.

I was a bit worried as caught a field mouse (what I have in the loft) in my garage tale end of summer and the smell was although was summer rather than winter.

Might try it though as they are fucking me off

[Count Steer]

I've used poison and traps for mice at one time or another in the loft. They both worked and never had a problem with smells. (Humane traps are a no-no for me because it's a pain getting up there to check them).

Quite often I'd find them dead inside the bait boxes. Which blocks the next critter from the bait, harrumph.

As for noise, if they gather a stash of acorns and burrow under the insulation then gnaw at them on the ceiling it sounds like they're using angle grinders.

I've also thought I'd heard them and found it was jackdaws on the roof looking for edibles under the mossy bit. (Trees + shade + damp weather = moss ).

[Sadlonelygit]

As long as it's not pine martens, you're all fine!

[Taipan]

There will always be lots of them. Use Ruby Grain poison and keep putting it down until they stop taking it.

[Sunny]

There will always be lots of them. Use Ruby Grain poison and keep putting it down until they stop taking it.

We had a ton of meeces in the kitchen loft recently and resorted to poison instead of our usual traps approach.

They got through two full Chinese takeaway tubs of the stuff in 24 hours - checked with a pest control mate who said not to put any more out as they'll have been taking it somewhere else to stash.

He also said they can take 3-10 days to cart it, so not to put any more out till after that time. Oh and one litter(is it a litter?) can be up to 14 or something like that, hence the quantities you can get.

[Supermofo]

There will always be lots of them. Use Ruby Grain poison and keep putting it down until they stop taking it.

I've got the blocks at the moment but can grab some grain if needs be. Not put it out yet as stuff on tonight but there's 10 traps in the loft so not like I'm letting em off. Found a long arsed wooden pole in the garage which I'm gonna gorilla tape the bait box to and push over where they are.
My loft will soon resemble the Atlantik Wall!

[Supermofo]

There will always be lots of them. Use Ruby Grain poison and keep putting it down until they stop taking it.

We had a ton of meeces in the kitchen loft recently and resorted to poison instead of our usual traps approach.

They got through two full Chinese takeaway tubs of the stuff in 24 hours - checked with a pest control mate who said not to put any more out as they'll have been taking it somewhere else to stash.

He also said they can take 3-10 days to cart it, so not to put any more out till after that time. Oh and one litter(is it a litter?) can be up to 14 or something like that, hence the quantities you can get.

Did it work in the end? Any smell?

[Sunny]

There will always be lots of them. Use Ruby Grain poison and keep putting it down until they stop taking it.

We had a ton of meeces in the kitchen loft recently and resorted to poison instead of our usual traps approach.

They got through two full Chinese takeaway tubs of the stuff in 24 hours - checked with a pest control mate who said not to put any more out as they'll have been taking it somewhere else to stash.

He also said they can take 3-10 days to cart it, so not to put any more out till after that time. Oh and one litter(is it a litter?) can be up to 14 or something like that, hence the quantities you can get.

Did it work in the end? Any smell?

It did. Zero smell.

We did have few sleepy flies appear, but they gathered on the window so very easy to get shot of them.

Oh, and I found one poor mouse lying near the back door, clearly on its last legs but not totally gone, so I bricked it to put it out of its misery.

[Taipan]

There will always be lots of them. Use Ruby Grain poison and keep putting it down until they stop taking it.

We had a ton of meeces in the kitchen loft recently and resorted to poison instead of our usual traps approach.

They got through two full Chinese takeaway tubs of the stuff in 24 hours - checked with a pest control mate who said not to put any more out as they'll have been taking it somewhere else to stash.

He also said they can take 3-10 days to cart it, so not to put any more out till after that time. Oh and one litter(is it a litter?) can be up to 14 or something like that, hence the quantities you can get.

They do indeed stash it. When we had mice they were coming in for the dogs dry food. We only found this out when we moved the washing machine and found a dog food mountain behind it! We stopped leaving that down overnight and left the ruby grain in a saucer under the cupboards. Took ages before the dish had the same amount in it we'd left down and we left it there for about a week more to be sure.

We did try the blocks and whilst they got nibbled they seemed to mainly ignore them, where as the ruby grain was scoffed every night.

[Supermofo]

I have the blocks so will put them up there tonight, I'm ordering some grain today and will stick that up there when it arrives. The little bastards sounded like a Slipknot concert at 5.05 this morning right above where my bedroom window is.

[Supermofo]

Ordered a kg of wheat poison in 100g bags. Will stick some in a tray and lob a couple where I can't get to.