Moles

[willowmeadow]

I know this has been covered before and I did read some older posts but there did not seem to be a consensus on the best way to get rid of them.

I know they are good in some ways, but right now I have five acres of pasture and lawn that has more brown than green in it. I don’t care about the way it looks, but they are leaving holes everywhere. I don’t want the horses stepping in the holes. I’m sure they are moles. We have set two traps and gotten one in two weeks. I’m afraid to use the poison bait around the horses. Any suggestions would be appreciated. I’m desperate! Thanks.

[ISR]

You definitely need more barn cats. I’m brought at least one mole/vole/mouse/shrew/vole a day.

[Mosey_2003]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgztUzqaL3E

[jawa]

http://landscaping.about.com/od/pestcontrol/f/mole_vole_difference.htm

Be sure you know whether it’s a mole or a vole. That will help you to control them.

If it’s truly moles, then milky spore is great, although expensive. It controls the grubs that the moles feed on. Because of it being expensive, I only used in on the lawn when we first built 6 years ago. Since then I have developed a few flower beds and the moles have been active in them. I need to spread another bag of milky spore around the flower beds and beds that will be developed in the future.

[gumtree]

They rarely make holes big enough for a horse to hurt themselves stepping in IME.

Happy to rent you a pair of Jack Russells that will take care of the problem. The ones they don’t get move out.

The only draw back is they leave bigger holes than the moles/voles do.

[DHCarrotfeeder]

[QUOTE=ISR;8178440]
You definitely need more barn cats. I’m brought at least one mole/vole/mouse/shrew/vole a day.[/QUOTE]

Our four barn cats do nothing even when they don’t like their food very much. Some cats simply don’t hunt.

[Whitfield_Farm_Hanov]

JACK RUSSELLS!