The fight against field mice is a real problem for owners of private houses, especially in the autumn period. In the dwelling of people, mice are running, because there is heat and enough food. For a person, they represent a danger - they suffer from ticks and various infectious diseases. Getting rid of them is quite difficult, as rodents multiply rapidly.
It is best to prevent the invasion of mice into the house:
- fix all the cracks in the floor, walls and block the ventilation holes with bars;
- Store food in glass or plastic hermetic containers;
- keep clean in the house and clean all leftovers;
- around the house to plant mint, and inside on a cotton ball, peppermint oil can be decomposed in all possible places of penetration to repel rodents.
Remedy for mice in the house
Getting rid of a wooden house from mice is usually more difficult, for this you can use chemicals - poisons. They are mixed with flour, sugar and watered with sunflower oil. Poison is a remedy for mice and rats in the house, it needs to be disposed in secluded corners and changed every six months. The drawback of this method is at risk for pets and children.
Instead of poison, some use a mixture of gypsum and flour. It is believed that it stiffens in the stomach of the mouse and the animal dies. For reliability, you can add more pounded glass.
A non-toxic method is a mousetrap or a special glue that must be applied to the carton and the mouse sticks. As a bait, it is better to use lard, sausage or bread.
Another trap is a three-liter jar. At the bottom it is necessary to pour the sunflower oil and put the bait. Set it at an angle so that the mouse rushes inside easily - it will not be able to get out again, because the feet will slide on the glass.
A simple remedy for mice - pets cats or cats
By humane methods, how to get rid of mice in a private house, you can include herbs, rodents can not stand and leave, feeling their smell. This is dried chamomile, black-legged, mint, tansy.
The best remedy in the house from rats and mice are ultrasonic modern scarers. They produce high-frequency sounds, the mice leave the range of application. The device will work in a week, but it should be installed in each room.
There are repellent products in the dispensers that do not kill uninvited guests, but expel them outside the home. They use smells that rodents hate.
You need to use different methods to get rid of dangerous rodents, if nothing helps, you can call the experts on deratization.