[aelf]

Hi all

New to this site, but been 'digging' for a while now. My problem is mice! Last year they stripped my sweetcorn just as it was ripened to perfection. And my peas! I picked enough for a meal one day, went back the next day for some more and the blighters had eaten the lot! 

Any ideas gratefully accepted....

please......

Aelf

[realfood]

Traps or poison!!

[MoreWhisky]

Do mice really climb up and eat your sweetcorn then?

[Salmo]

Could the mice be innocent and the real culprits are birds such as pigeons/crows/pheasants?

[Rampant_Weasel]

keep rat poison down all year.if u kill enough in the winter there will only be a few left in the spring and u can poison those ones too

[Salmo]

The sweetcorn thieves may well be rats!!

[aelf]

mmm
they may well be rats, but not birds, I had netting all over them. Is poison the onlt solution?

Aelf

[Paul Plots]

Someone with patience and a Jack russell?  :blink: Might do the trick...

[doubledug]

if its rats put down traps baited with chocolate, let them die happy.

[MoreWhisky]

So is this thread saying that mice and rats will climb up my sweetcorn and eat them?

someone please give me a yes or no that they do this.

[aelf]

yes 

Aelf

[8doubles]

A maize plant will be easy for a rat to climb, i have seen them RUN five feet up a vertical brick wall.

[MoreWhisky]

christ! something else to defend against 

[Parsnip]

christ! something else to defend against 

My neighbour had his fishing gear tucked in the rafters of his garage. They managed to climb up the walls and nibble through it..  very industrious are Mickey's

[Paul Plots]

Ingenious, determined little (?) bu**ers, rats! My mother remembers seeing rats working together to steal eggs when she was a kid in Somerset (long ago). One rat held the egg on its stomach while the other one pulled the first rat along by its tail out under the wire-netting!!

Takes some believing but she is generally a person who does not tell porkies! 

Climbing for corn would not be a problem for them. 

Different types of mice have different feeding habits. Maybe you have field mice. Prettier than house-mice as they are brown and white underneath… not that it makes them any more attractive if they are the culprits!