Does anyone know if mice will eat ferramol pellets? A fairly heavy scattering in a corner of the kitchen (yes, you did read that right :( slime trails on the breadboard doesn't do a lot for the appetite) has vanished overnight twice now. The slugs don't usually get through the pellets at that rate. We do start to get mice coming in at about this time of year, but I hadn't seen any signs of them.
Thanks
Sally
Try sprinkling cornflour around the pellets, if it mice they will leave footprints in the powder.
Good luck, let us know if you find out ;)
Caught a mouse last night, in a trap baited with slug pellets ???
Now just need to see if it had invited its friends along
Well done, I had no idea mice like slug pellets. New one on me :D
Quote from: timnsal on October 21, 2008, 12:47:05
Does anyone know if mice will eat ferramol pellets? A fairly heavy scattering in a corner of the kitchen (yes, you did read that right :( slime trails on the breadboard doesn't do a lot for the appetite) has vanished overnight twice now. The slugs don't usually get through the pellets at that rate. We do start to get mice coming in at about this time of year, but I hadn't seen any signs of them.
Thanks
Sally
Hi Sally, I'm new here, though not to gardening, but what are ferramol pellets?. Just a brand of slug pellet?
Hello and welcome Ianrob :D
Ferramol is the ingredient in the wildlife friendly slug pellet called 'Growing success slug pellets'. Its claimed to be non toxic to frogs, pets and children if used strictly in accordance with the instructions ;)
Quote from: star on November 07, 2008, 20:05:33
Hello and welcome Ianrob :D
Ferramol is the ingredient in the wildlife friendly slug pellet called 'Growing success slug pellets'. Its claimed to be non toxic to frogs, pets and children if used strictly in accordance with the instructions ;)
Thanks for the welcome and the reply, could be just what I've been looking for, these pellets. It's been slugsville Arizona this year round here. Plenty beer traps, but still slugs to go round.
Hello Ian and Star.
I haven't tried the pellets in the garden or on the allotment. The wildlife seems to keep the slugs to manageable levels outside. In the kitchen, however, there are definite limits to my tolerance :o
No sign of any more pellet munchers, so maybe it was just the one weird mouse.
Sally
Yes.....one weird, dead mouse ;D
But it didn't die of anaemia though...... ;D