Mighty Mouse Invades the Barn

 

Anyone, throughout history, who  has owned a barn has had the same small critter invade their premises, the mouse.  Shelter from the elements and, by the barn’s nature a continuous supply of food, makes the barn a perfect target for mice home building.  And, so the barn cat, mouse trap and mice poison become the staple equipment for keeping the numbers of little field mice from getting out of hand.

We sell a product that has nothing to do with mice.  The Horse Fly Net® is a perfect shade and barrier against flies and sun.  They go up in the summer and come down in winter like house screens  in the fall.  Our instructions to our customers are, ” please roll rather than  fold Horse Fly Nets ® for storage to make them last longer”.  Rolling them and putting them in a hay loft has always been a perfect solution and something that we advise all customers to do.  However, our experience in recent winters was a disaster.  The rolled  nets were put up into the hay loft as was done as usual.  But this year “Mighty Mouse” decided to chew on the nets, perhaps using the material, a polyester with vinyl coating, as bedding for their nest in some unseen corner of the barn.  It did not ruin the nets but made them unsightly for the barn that had been admired with Horse Fly Nets® on it for years.

Some winter chewing by Mighty Mouse

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks to google, some solutions to this problem have already been thought out published and put into a video, www.gardenguides.com/video-62448-mothballs-keep-mice-away.html.  I hate the smell of moth balls, but so do mice.  Mice apparently will move out of range of moth balls and find other nesting and harvesting materials.  Check out this web site www.gardenguides.com  and put a hand full of moth balls in a stocking, inside of the rolled Horse Fly Net®,  as suggested so moth balls stay together and can be collected whenever need be in the spring. Good luck.

 

Karleen H

 

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