Mice and Chickens

Some people have problems with mice in their coop.  I have never had that probable except for one time when a half eaten one was found there.  I am not sure if they brought it in or whether it wandered in.  Either way, it met it's just fate.

Where I have had mice, and my happy little marmalade cat, Pascal,  killed both, was in the pantry where I store the grain.  The comment about sealing up the small openings is a definite must.  I had a large hole, that I found after the two were killed.  Caulk would not have solved that problem at all -- far too big.  So like those loarge holes in walls, I tried something similar.


 I cut a piece of cardboard to fit the size of the hole and rolled the SOS pad around until it was cylindrical and I attached it to the cardboard with hot glue.  I let that dry and then I used silicon caulk to attach the cardboard until the rug until I redo the floor boards and give a more permanent layering.

I can't get to the flooring now as we have a leaky roof above it, and while I have tried lots of methods to solve that problem, it still leaks.  I think it is things like that that make a person go mad, or sell the house... In the meantime, it leaks and only occasionally and sometimes less than that.

Both articles from LogCabin Homes, October 2014.