Situation is we have had a severe drought for three years then a great year for rain in 2020 and the mice took off. Some of our winter crops lodged and heavy pastures means that the mice had cover and were not being predated upon. So mice population explosion. It started in the Western areas and progressed South and East. We have been battling then here for a few months. Big thing is keep grass areas cut and don't leave grain or other food around. Have been using greased wine bottles with peanut butter in the neck over a drum of water. Wife generously supplied the empty bottles. Some people were getting over a hundred a day. Best count we got was sixty in a day. Have now had frosts which has reduced the numbers. A lot of cropping paddocks had stubble burnt or were cultivated which reduces the numbers. Then have to be careful they don't move in from non crop areas. Grain bags have been hammered and some haystacks even of big square cereal hay destroyed which we don't normally see. The media have only just got onto this, it started late last year. I was 100 km North west of home and there were dropping bait with an air tractor.
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