Mice in shed

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I am cleaning out the wendy house for the guinea-pigs to move into for the winter and I have found lots of guinea-pig and rabbit food on the floor and mouse droppings in the shed. I think the food bags must have split. I have cleared out the wendy house and can't see any mice and the cat goes in the wendy house sometimes too and he's never caught anything, is it ok to move the guinea-pigs in? Is there anything else I should do? The food has now been moved into storage boxes with a lid.
 
Are your pigs free ranging in the shed or are they going in hutches?

If you can't find any nests or anything in there, it should be OK to move the pigs in but make sure the food is stored out of the way and keep an eye out in case they come back to eat from the bowls.

My girls are in a shed too (free range) and their food is stored in sealed storage boxes on a high self.

Look for any gaps where the mice could have got in and block off in you can.
 
Thank you for the reply :) They will be in a C&C type cage without a lid. Sorry if this is a stupid question but if the mice came back would them and the guinea-pigs ignore each other or not?
 
I am pretty sure they would ignore each other. There was a story on here once where a member came downstairs to find a mouse eating from the food bowl along with the guinea pigs!

If the mice do come back, you will have to remove them though (the mice that is).

Rats are far worse than mice as they are big enough to scare and hurt the piggies and rat urine is toxic.
 
Ok that's good to know :) I phoned my Dad because when I moved the shelves I found a hole in the wendy house floor which was about the size of a 50 pence coin. He said it sounded like it was mice and he thinks they're living underneath the wendy house. He told me to block the hole with a brick for now and he'll cover the hole properly tomorrow.
 
you need to make sure that any holes are sealed before moving the pigs in, they can get through some tiny gaps so be thorough.

Even if they have no food source in there now, the bowl of food will be a lovely free meal for them as I found out last year when they came inside and were eating left over veg on the plate and the dry food with the piggies in the pen. I lined the outside with peppermint essential oil as a repellent and removed the left overs, and the bowl at night (they still had hay 24/7) so my pen of pigs and their food was less attractive, set traps and after 4 weeks no more mice.

If you block the entrances into the shed, keep food sealed up and work hard to stop mice or rats living or running under the wendy house, it should work out fine.
 
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