Field Mouse
You need to know…
- Low on the food chain, these pests reproduce at an alarming rate.
- They aren’t especially vicious and rely on their size, speed, and own ingenuity to survive.
- It feasts on whatever it finds.
- Mice unfortunately are prone to carry disease, usually not plagues, but virulent things all the same.
- After maybe two weeks of pregnancy the mother births three to five baby mice.
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House Mouse
You need to know…
- As a wild animal the house mouse mainly lives associated with humans, causing damage to crops and stored food.
- House mice have an adult body length (nose to base of tail) of 7.5–10 cm and a tail length of 5–10 cm.
- House mice consume and contaminate food, pet food and animal feed.
- Pregnancy period is about 19–21 days, and they give birth to a litter of 3–14 young (average 6–8). One female can have some 5–10 litters per year.
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Brown Rat
You need to know…
- The Brown Rat’s fur is coarse and usually brown or dark grey, while the underparts are lighter grey or brown.
- Adult body weight averages 550g.
- The brown rat is usually active at night and is a good swimmer, both on the surface and underwater, but unlike the related Black Rat, they are poor climbers.
- The brown rat is a true omnivore and will consume almost anything, but cereals form a substantial part of its diet.
- They can also serve as a reservoir for Toxoplasma gondii, the parasite that causes toxoplasmosis, though the disease usually spreads from rats to humans when domestic cats feed on infected brown rats.
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