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Post by buffaloberry on Mar 22, 2023 16:18:42 GMT -6
Greetings comrades! I wanna find out which type of habitat I need to draw native mice and voles such as deer and white foot mice and prairie or meadow voles to our urban backyards without attracting no non native house mice or brown rats which will disrupt the native ecosystem and bring on diseases and sicknesses. I know I need food, water and shelter to help these creatures surrive in difficult urban enviroments where stray cats thrive and prey on. How we keep out the non native rodents out? These varmints keep on crashing into the party where there's a feast going on. We gotta keep it all tight and right to keep the might in the fight. My area's all sun and no shade and almost all prairie. How do field mice help in prairie habitats? Please share what you all have to make this topic lovely as it can be. Much love!
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Post by macmex on Jul 11, 2023 12:06:05 GMT -6
Hey, I only just saw this post. I suspect you didn't get a response because no one had an answer. It would be really hard to encourage one kind of rodent without doing the same with another kind that could happen by.
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Post by heavyhitterokra on Jul 13, 2023 12:34:11 GMT -6
Buffaloberry,
Today was the first time I saw this post as well. Who knows how that happened? I try to read all of the posts as they appear, but somehow missed this one.
It has been my experience that sweet potatoes attract voles. I haven't had other rodents hit my sweet potatoes as hard as voles do. They also eat my turnips. I can't see an upside to that situation and would not encourage their spread in urban areas. They might be okay in a wild prairie, as they would provide aeration of the thatch and food for the foxes and coyotes, but not in town where neither is needed.
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