how many mice live in a colony?

[*mrgrizz*]

found some in the garage.

they are feeding on a bag of bird seed.

so far i have caught 9, how many more will there be?

score so far is mice 8.......dogs 1.

and these are manchester terriers, breed for catching rats.

[boris1gary]

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@*mrgrizz* wrote:

found some in the garage.

they are feeding on a bag of bird seed.

so far i have caught 9, how many more will there be?

score so far is mice 8.......dogs 1.

and these are manchester terriers, breed for catching rats.

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lots more.

[purple_haize]

lots and lots more...

[lloydslights]

6 Live ones today, could be 60 in a couple of months.  Winter's coming, they might get cold outdoors and may venture into the residence of Mr Grizz.  

The pictures of those plagues of mice in the 1950-60s still haunt me.  

DEB

[horizon1907]

100's if you don't get rid of em now. 😞  you may have to call Pest Exterminator. Mouse Busters. 🙂 

[the*scarlet*pimpernel]

How many?

too many

I have them living in aviary  (very loose term for oversized bird cage)  They dig holes in the dirt and make little burrows.  Every couple of weeks I flush them out with a hose. Unfortunately thet dopey dogs associates the hose with bath Time and won't come near me, and the cat won't lower herself to catch them, so if I can't stomp on them quick enough they get away. So far the mice are winning.

[i-need-a-martini]

Mice can have a litter of 14 plus. 

So if there are 10 mice mummies, then you have at least 100.

[katymatey*]

War of attrition is the only way to get rid of them ALL. Just keep setting traps. (mice like peanut butter and smackos)  We had a bad period where they were breeding almost as fast as we were catching them. Dogs were useless (terriers), just ran the other way. One night we caught 5 mice with 4 traps. Two in the one trap.

[*mrgrizz*]

haven't seen 1 inside yet.

i will keep giving them to the dogs, they can only get better

[1966kelso]

I just had another go at flushing them out of the birdcage..

mice 2 - me and the dog 0

rotten little buggars, I hate mice.