Mice must be able to smell sunflower seeds!

[Snadger]

I had an idea I had a mouse in the greenhouse for a while as something had nibbled at my biccies and the odd bit of bread I had stashed for the chooks.
I recently sowed about eight trays of various seeds, one of them being sunflowers.
The other seed trays hadn't been touched but the sunflower seed tray resembled a bomb site with craters and seed husks spread all over. I can't bring myself to get mad at the little varmints though as they were just after food.
I've now moved the tray up a height hopefully out of there reach and will sow a few more at the weekend.

[stella]

I had my seeds attacked so now I use a biscuit tin to store them, they have not learnt how to get the lid off yet

[organic]

Snadger...
I think you just helped me choose the bait for the little bugger I keep seeing in the kitchen.

If it doesn't crawl into the trap in the next few days I'm planning to bait the middle of the kitchen floor and either play the waiting game with a bowl to drop over it or set up some sort of propped up box on a string to trap it.

As much as they ARE vermin in houses (and a flippin health hazard while they are at it) I don't feel the need to kill it - I just want it out and I'll be happy enough.

[leah]

Snadger...
I think you just helped me choose the bait for the little bugger I keep seeing in the kitchen.

If it doesn't crawl into the trap in the next few days I'm planning to bait the middle of the kitchen floor and either play the waiting game with a bowl to drop over it or set up some sort of propped up box on a string to trap it.

As much as they ARE vermin in houses (and a flippin health hazard while they are at it) I don't feel the need to kill it - I just want it out and I'll be happy enough.

make sure it's a heavy box, I left a bean can over one (only thing I could find!) for my oh to move when he got home and when he got back, it had escaped!!! Mars bar works well, we had them indoors too and they could get food off the traps until we tried the stick food, while they were busy trying to get it off....

[rana]

Hi Snadger

I've had similar problems with mice and sowings of sunflower seeds in the greenhouse and I'm pretty sure they can smell them as the seeds begin to swell and germinate, and like your experience it is just the pots with sunflowers that are raided. Oddly enough the bone dry sunflower seeds for the bird feeders have never been attacked despite being stored under the greenhouse bench.

[HeyWayne]

Snadger...
I think you just helped me choose the bait for the little bugger I keep seeing in the kitchen.

If it doesn't crawl into the trap in the next few days I'm planning to bait the middle of the kitchen floor and either play the waiting game with a bowl to drop over it or set up some sort of propped up box on a string to trap it.

As much as they ARE vermin in houses (and a flippin health hazard while they are at it) I don't feel the need to kill it - I just want it out and I'll be happy enough.

Peanut butter mate - worked a treat for me. It was Organic too.

[HeyWayne]

In my experience there is almost no height too high for mices.

[Bigmallly]

Espescially if they have a helper.

http://mondaymadness.com/wp-content/...tuff/mouse.jpg

[organic]

Leah - I'll be sure to. Most likely I'll be sat and waiting for the trap to spring (or actually dumping the box over it myself) so not much danger of it getting away like yours did.

HeyWayne - I believe so. We don't use peanut butter here though and I'm not about to buy a pot just for Jeremy (well they are all called that, aren't they? Except the ones called Jerry, of course.)
Good to hear it was organic though - couldn't have the mice going for any old muck.