Get 10 x 50 gallon bins with board ramps and half fill with water. Smear peanut butter on the ramp and on the inside rim of the bins so that the mice have to hang down inside the bin and fall in. Dispose of 50-300,000 mice a night. Replenish the peanut butter every day, and save using poisons that kill owls and dogs.
when you killed tom, there will be jerry and his cousins. they should've breed more snakes or owls before shooting feral cats to death in 2019-2020. maybe they don't deserve that...try telling that to mother nature
@@tommyhadisurya You mean the snakes and owls that died in the bushfires? The fires that destroyed billions of hectares of bushland, homes and an estimated billion animals? There are millions of feral cats that do not belong in the Australian ecosystem. They are an introduced species, as are the mice. However, the mice were able to breed due to good weather and an abundant harvest. You really should educate yourself more on what the feral cats behaviours are like and why they were a problem in Australia. These two are major issues that come to mind: 1: Cats, as with all predatory animals are opportunistic and will go after a slower meal that doesn't necessarily recognise them as a threat. This means they are more likely to go after native animals as they are slower than mice: e.g. Bilbies, native marsupial mice, native lizards, snakes, native birds. Many of their easier prey items are also on the endangered or critically endangered species lists. 2: Cats can reproduce quickly and the argument of 'neuter/desex and release' does not fly as this does not stop a cat from hunting, killing and eating or alternatively playing with their kill.
Isn't it more humane to sterilise the mice? Anyway cats an introduced species to Australia, should be sterilised too as they are destroying Australia's biodiversity and killing off our marsupials.
@Hase C just afterwards you'll need a apex predator to kill all the dam cat's and then something to wipe them out, it's going to turn out in a arm's race where next thing we know thing's that can kill humans
@@JodBronson yeh but pre-covid a typical Rodent funeral was 10,000 mourners, of which at least 50 of them would die during the ceremony and typically They’d be completely consumed before the wakes even stArted
I love how everyone has a suggestion on how to fix this. Pleeeeaaase! If you aren't living in it you have no idea how bad it is. You don't sleep properly for months because of the noise in the walls, and then you hear them under your bed and on the bedside table in the dark. They climb the curtains. They fall down air con vents. They eat wires and ducting. You come home from work and open the house door and the smell just hits you. They crawl into car engine bays and cause damage. This is just in town, not the same nightmare they are facing on the farms. We have baits, 3 cats, fox terrier, 12 traps, bulk traps. It's making no difference. Spare us your lame suggestions. Owls, cats and dogs are over them and cannot consume the amount they need to, and that's only if they survive the baiting.
It's horrible my condolences I hope this problem fixes itself somehow.. for now all you can do is block up the doors with door stoppers and weather proofing and anything that can seal up the gap and brick up the holes.. it's very hard to completely seal up a house but you can funnel them sometimes in to only a few spots and then deal with them there.
I was thinking the same thing, I don't want to eat bread after seeing this thinking that there could be a possibility my bread was made from this wheat
the farmers of Australia have destroyed the environment here like no other. Cleared more native bush last year than anyone on the planet except Brazil. They suck our rivers dry, poison the land, introduce pests, cause plagues, destroy forests, all for their own profit. Farmers haven't been the backbone of Australia for decades and I'm sick of hearing them whinging
I was watching this when my cat, attracted by the sqeaking sounds sat watching this with me. Now he's gone out, I'm afraid he'll head for the docks and sneak aboard a ship heading to OZ :-(
@Christian Weissmuller That's because we have millions of feral cats that are killing endangered and critically endangered native marsupials, not to mention the people that let their cats out at night (when they know they shouldn't). The 'spay and neuter then release' approach doesn't work. Just because an animal can't reproduce...doesn't stop it eating.
So what's new? This has been going on forever. You can't store grain that way and the size of the fields are huge. With little thought for wildlife, no hedgerows, no wild areas, no predators, what can you expect.
I think some farmers are starting to understand that their farms rely on the local ecosystem, of course others just want to poison everything because short term solutions always feel better.
Gotta agree. Storing grain in bags on the ground for "economic reasons"??? Well, hopefully this economic disaster taught them a lesson. Hopefully it won't be humans consuming this grain
1:45 "there are no Silos in the area for economic reasons." I'm really sorry for the Farmer, I trully am. But I hope they will revalued that fact. vermin proof silos. If they loose 100.000+ from this plaque alone and the possibility is high for more... It's a sound investment.
You would think it would be common sense. This is the standard farming practice in every other developed nation that I'm aware of. It should be mandated by the government.
Do you know how large properties are in Australia? You might be traveling hundreds of kms to get to one silo because a community might only be able to raise enough money for said silo. They have had drought, fire, flood and now the mice. Many areas do not have the money to fund a silo and 'government funding' can't always be found.
@@alexsmith6218 Farms are "large properties" by nature. This is the dumbest argument I've ever heard. What are you talking about the "community" for? This is the farmer's responsibility. The community also shouldn't have to subsidize the farmers by way of government intervention because they refuse to invest in proper grain storage.
@@clashwithkeen To assume that everyone should have silos and then say it's against 'common sense' when a farming culture doesn't have one? A very interesting, if not an obtuse point of view. I shall expand more on my point then, to see if I can further clarify some things in case they did not make it into international news. Farmers in Australia tend to rely on their neighbours and community (which may be far reaching due to radio etc.). They have to because resources can take a long time to get to them. Case in point, the hay runs that were done on a volunteer basis during the recent droughts because some farmers could not afford to pay for feed for their animals at all. So with Australian news in 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020 of farmers having been on the brink of bankruptcy, with banks at their doors, no food on their tables because they've given everything to their land to try and make it work.......how much more do they have to give? Farmers have ended up killing themselves because they have seen no way out of the drought, fire, floods and their desperate financial situations. I am unsure how widely the devastation was covered in whichever place you're from, however it is insulting for someone to assume so much about a situation that it is grossly clear that they have no grasp on. Side note, how would you know if someone has 'refused to invest in proper grain storage'? I'm sure if there'd been an opportunity, the farmers may have thought about silos. With a drought from 2003-2012 (longer in some places) and a drought from 2017 to current....they may not have broken even before 2017. It is very sad to think that there's a "Why should we help the people who put food on our tables?" mentality.
Don’t be so sure about ABC....check out the disgraceful journalism of famous Australian actor Craig M. They scripted so called ‘victims’ of sexual assault!
@@frankkolton1780 our food supplies come from all over the world not just Australia. 75% of grain grown here is exported so they aren't "the backbone of the country" they are profit driven businesses that destroy the environment for profit
Remember that the stupid Aussy farmers (supported by the Aussie government) poisoned their own feral cat population only a couple of years ago! This is just 'Karma' getting back at them. They should have known that this was going to be the result before they started killing the poor cats! They get no sympathy from me.
Why , its sloppy farming , they have destroyed the countryside anyway with overstocking and water extraction ..A farmer is a bloke exploiting land for profit with no looking to the future at all and lobbying governments to encourage us to eat more milk and meat during a climate catastrophe .
The CSIRO has never stoped a single mouse plague in 50 years that I know of . I don't think spending billions on scientists is the answer to this . They need to spend most of the money on poisoning them early and we know how to do that and safer feed and grain storage techniques . I went through a mouse plague one time and I saved our house and garden by immediately meshing right around my house . I learnt that the plague was coming from cattle drovers that saw them moving not far from us. It's no different to grasshopper plagues it's all about early intervention . The scientists can be the ones to work out the early intervention part but not soak up all the money as they usually do .
Just wandering 1) what would be the side effects if science would introduce gene (not a good idea) that makes mouse sterile? 2) are there any uninvasive predators in Australia that are adapted to drought seasons and modern farm activity? 3) if Australia would go veggie and there wouldn't be any cattle industry, would that have impact on mouse survivability rates during drought seasons?
@@ksd593 And after 50 million dollars is gone the gene may still not work . The scientists have soaked up Millions on cane toad research and they are still spreading and some fool scientist introduced them . Why do you think they down funded the CSIRO because for the money they soaked up there was little progress . Scientists should play a role but they should not be the only group in play getting all the money . If you study some of the projects like Macquarie Island there has been huge amounts of money spent when just a team of shooters could have done the job over two or three years for about 20 times less money . Science like Medicine is a bit of a racket at times .
CSIRO should be defunded completely and replaced with competent scientists who are interested in helping the rural sector rather than just looking at their scientific careers. Most CSIRO "scientists" are academics and should be terminated in mass.
@@Romeoleus That is a bit extreme by partially correct . They have already done that to some extent as many had a well paid job but no projects to work on. There is many very competent and smart scientists in the CSIRO . They have done some very go work in the past but the Government tends to be narrow minded when it comes to solving problems and just defer to scientists all the time when simpler cheaper solutions could already be out there .
I recall a friend telling me of this problem in Australia before I left as an exchange student in ‘99. Wish them the best in safely getting through this
I bet as soon as the mice move into Sydney something will be done the government will step in a lot quicker. Absolutely appalling response from our government.
City dwellers get screwed over by Liberal/National policies as well. No one is safe from these corrupt, worthless sacks of shit. What we as a country need to do is A: Learn to ignore the MSM. B: Stop voting for conservative parties.
@@australien6611 they are saying that the government should be doing something about it. its not their fault its happening, it is their fault they aren't doing anything
Seems like it wasn't too long ago that people in Australia were complaining about feral cats killing everything that moved. Apparently that problem has been solved.
This has been an issue for sooo many years in Australia, why haven’t farmers looked into exclusion, it would be costly but it would provide a permanent solution.
Duncan Donut Donut sealing out pests, it would be costly but it would be a one time investment that could save a ton of product from being destroyed, I’m not sure how the hay farmer would protect the bailed hay but the grain farmers could definitely do it.
In the UK as farmers our stores must be bird and rat proof, and measures in place to catch or kill mice. Can't sell grain at all for human consumption without it, and only a few outlets for it for animal feed.
The resilience and attitude of the farmer are the basis of our future. If only the city cousin could take a page of what they endure Australia would be a tough bone to chew. The Aussie spirit still burns. Hardships met with a smile.
I feel so sad for the farmers. They work so hard without big incomes, but the harvest is destroyed by the horrific mice plague. Hopefully Australian government will imburse some money to these farmers to help them get through this difficult time. I hope the ordinary Australians appreciate and treasure all the food including rice, corps, veggies, fruits, meats, etc, as well as other resources like water, electricity and gas. And educate the young generations to treasure those things and don’t waste any food. I saw in schools and childcares, you can not believe how much food have been wasted. The teachers and children don’t care about the environment. The air conditions and lights can be run all day long even no any people inside the rooms.I feel very sad and sorry for all the farmers’ hard work, suffering time, and all the difficulties they have to face in different seasons and years.
nah farmers a rich assholes. They get everything they deserve as far as I'm concerned. Hard working? Most days they stop work at noon and sleep in whenever it rains
Is it not possible to find a better way to store grain? The bags look pretty easy to chew through. There are cracks in the storage buildings and equipment. The bales are sitting outdoors with only a tarp. Seems some of the sheds have bare ground floors. Wouldn't it be possible to at least store it better?
It's usually the price of sufficient flooring, and cement will eventually break down after such heavy amount of grain year after year if not done correctly, and many of the things they do don't guarantee mice don't get in, we have a grain bin suspended from the ground, with a steel floor and even more cement underneath that, yet somehow mice can still get in, in large enough numbers there's little you can do against mice aside from digging a moat around your property with cement walls double reinforced around.
@@kailarsen154 I wonder if electrifying the grain bin walls would do the trick. There are so many ways to trap and kill mice. Maybe somebody needs to manufacture giant mousetraps for times like these since it just seems to be due to happen. That guy using a plastic kiddie pool had a good idea. Aussies seem to have more than their fair share of animal issues. And yeah, I guess I'd be thinking about trenching... at least the flood waters wouldn't go to waste in a moat.
in wales uk we use teams of dogs about 40 to 50 dogs they go to a farm then let the dogs do the work there trained to do. the farmers pay the lads in beer and fuel to all get there.
@@danforbes4513 very unrealistic number there considering mice don’t die easily unless bitten and they would scatter and hide as soon as the dogs arrive.
It is absolutely disgusting! It is beyond m comprehension. Growing up in Oklahoma we would have a handful in the hay barn, totally manageable with a few cats, but this is just horrible!
Yeah. When I went to Europe before COVID, one of the most striking differences is that they let cats roam free without owners. We literally kill every single one. My cousins were like wtf? Australia is weird sometimes
Remember that the stupid Aussy farmers (supported by the Aussie government) poisoned their own feral cat population only a couple of years ago! This is just 'Karma' getting back at them. They should have known that this was going to be the result before they started killing the poor cats! They get no sympathy from me.
They introduced cats to get rid of mice, which led to another problem they started killing natural wildlife leading to endangered and extinction level threat that is why they are killings the cats. It happens because these are not indigenous to australian.
@@gerard4039 Most non-Australians have no clue what we're talking about. lol I'm American and I only know because I think I saw an episode of Vice five years ago about it being open season on cats in Australia. They also showed the dude that was making a living making belts and trinkets made out of cat parts! lol
Remember that the stupid Aussy farmers (supported by the Aussie government) poisoned their own feral cat population only a couple of years ago! This is just 'Karma' getting back at them. They should have known that this was going to be the result before they started killing the poor cats! They get no sympathy from me.
@Bob the Fish The cats were certainly not as devastating as the rats and mice plague is going to be for Australia. The cats diet was 87,5% rodents, so the native species were not as threatened by the cats as you claim. Enjoy your rodent-infested grains!
@Bob the Fish If the mice and rodents are doing "no harm" compared with the cats, then why are you here watching these "terrible news stories" about rodent plagues in Australia? Why are the farmers complaining? They clearly want sympathy... Well, they do not get any sympathy from me for creating their own rodent plague by killing millions of cats. And this bulls*t about "native species" was just an excuse to kill cats. The cats used your properties as litterboxes, and who can blame them for thinking that "your property was sh*t"? At least they didn't discharge on your food produce though, unlike the rodents. Bon Appetit! :-D
Alot of people in the comment suggesting holes or ditch filled with water traps. There are two things againts that, first people don't realise the sheer scales of Australia farms, most are far larger than farms in other countries. There are farms here larger than some countries. Second is that water is very very scarce and precious.
What did they think was going to happen? They don't use silos? They just leave it sitting out in bags? lmao That's like a cattle farmer not using dogs or fences. You're just feeding the surrounding wildlife at that point.
Yeah agreed, pretty much idiotic. However all the silos are full but my questions why don’t these farmers have their own silos, common sense risk management
@@Daniel07Eleven I agree. And it's disgusting to leave crops for humans outside, letting it all exposed to the elements and wild unhygienic animals. I think its just easier for them to leave it out in a huge pile rather than putting them away. Its a lot more work and time.
@@littlehomeforest5972 exactly. I would never buy a single grain from those farmers. They don't deserve it. The mice are not the problem, the farmers are the problem. I am sorry for all the people who eat products that have the grains as ingredients, from those unhygienic places....
@@Daniel07Eleven its unfortunate they don't regulate these farmers. Is this the standard in Australia? I thought we are better than this. It's appalling! I didn't know that's how farmers store food for humans. I literally thought they are food for farm animals. Some farmers said we can't sell cos its 'contaminated', clearly, but who to say they're not going to pick out the bad bits and sell it anyway. Not like they will willingly throw tonnes of grains out. Imagine if we chuck our groceries in the back yard and covered it with a tarp or something. You expect the wildlife to leave it alone?
@@Daniel07Eleven exactly! I know what you mean. Its like that with restaurants lol if you see everything for what it is you would not eat at most places lol. Yes, I think government support and fund farmers because they do have it hard sometimes. And silos are a long term investment just like water tanks, its inevitable. Clearly it's an ongoing problem. Why put it off?
Get every cat you can from wherever you can, breed them and let them live around your property feeding on mice. This is the way ancient Egyptians saved themselves from the mice plagues.
@@MysticalJessica Same thing I thought 😭🤣 seems like they deserve it to me, need cats to keep the mice in keep. We have 3 beautiful pet cats that never go outside. Even have around 4 feral cats we feed outside of our house. Mice can't live a prosperous life here.
Easy problem to fix tbh. Just dig a 2 meter hole and put a large open container in the ground and place a slippery platform for them to cross and a plate of grain in the middle. 2 meter by 2 meter container and fill the container 2 feet of water. Leave it overnight and then come back in the morning. There will be about a 100 in there that fell in and drowned. Add a few more containers out there by your farm and that should take care of like 90% of them. You're gonna have to shovel the dead bodies out with a shovel and put them in the ground. You should make it a metal container cus they will chew through a plastic one.
@@maticbukovac6966 You wouldn't just start doing this while you had a mountain of food out. You do it every day before you collect that mountain of food. When they do come around they wouldn't be in as high numbers. A sack of grain isn't a good choice for storage either. The fact that they're not storing it in a silo is they don't plan on keep the grain for long term use anyway. There's a good chance the reason why this is as bad as it is because they don't have silo's to store grain out of the hands of pests. A silo will cost them a mil and it takes a few years to have it pay off. (Grain farmers only make around 25k-75k a year. They make something like 1-3mil but it goes back to farming, land, machine costs.)
People are doing things like this, there'll be another 100 the next night and on and on, maybe 80 after a week, but then back to catching 100 every night.They simply come in from the next paddock.
Just a question, did the lock down do this ? Last year? If people are not moving , free run for mice, abandon food at restaurants , and mice breed quick. Could that have caused this?
voters are a joke! the reason politicians cant do anything about a problem they can only take money from one group and give to their friends. also they had all the chances from a record harvest and still didint invest in silos....
Apparently, ScoMo couldn't find alternate buyers for Oz barley, hence harvest pileups, hence the mice. But it is very neat that they labeled it as "2020 was so wet & the harvest was so goooood"
and that would be the solution :) they need to create more spaces for predators. if this land is only covered when the crop is growing, this wont attract predators. grow wild stripes between the fields, give nature some room. and anture will provide for u. as always
@@georgmettmann5722 I was wondering how much of this is a result of monoculture farming methods but I really don’t know enough beyond being able to ask the question
@@georgmettmann5722 at this point, no natural remedy such as increasing number of predator will help. With that number cats, snakes, owls, will become the mice's food instead. They will be overwhelmed by the huge number of mouse.
@@kyleklmondwa9042 You would be a Kyle. Gonna double down and bet you’re also American. Ironic that it’s a video about a rat plague and you show up, don’t want to miss the family gathering? I don’t mean to step on your DCs, Kyle, but your insecurities regarding the changes in your country have nothing to do with Australia.
What difference does vertical grain hoppestyle ylsilos make? Would it not be in the country's interests to help farmers buy and install these and the equipment to lift the grain into it? also I have never heard of burying hay or straw.... how does that work? Is there a way to do this and keep it clean (not mouldy)
I will have a go at answering your 4 questions. 1. difference is cost. like the difference between buying a plastic bag and buying a new shed. 2. Sure its in the countries interest, farmers are never short of subsidies however this past year happened to be a huge bumper crop, way in excess of the past 5-10 years for many areas. Having millions of dollars in unused silos dotting the landscape helps no-one 3. Burying straw is like magnets. 4. Its not hay if its not dry. However, cattle aren't picky when they are hungry. Google: Silage
Why In winter less mice, I think: more energy used for maintenance energy rather 'reproduce';in burrow eat 'summer gains'~outof sight; more predators around houses 'warm' more food sources(+mice).
As prince of Egypt said it best: “I send the pestilence and plague into your house into your head into your streams into your streets into drink into your bread, upon your cattle, upon your sheep, upon your oxen in your field, into your dreams into your sleep until you break until you yield. I send the swarm, I send the hoard thus saith the lord.”
A well known local farmer won the biggest lottery jackpot ever, the media got onto him and asked what are you goin to do with all that money? He looked at the bloke an said "Well l guess I'll just keep farming until it runs out"
Well I don't! You reap what you sough. When you sough GENO CIDE you will reap death! Look back at Australia's history of how they ki//ed the Indigenous, stole the land and commit racism against them.
Remember that the stupid Aussy farmers (supported by the Aussie government) poisoned their own feral cat population only a couple of years ago! They should have known that this was going to be the result before they started killing the poor cats! They get no sympathy from me.
@@naansophi1111 the "poor cats" kill more native species than they do pests like this. keeping them around is diminishing returns. they deserved to be culled
@@atomik7066 No, and NO! The cats diet were 87,5% rodents and only 12,5% native species. Check your facts! The native species could have been moved to sanctuaries. The rodents are everywhere, and so should the cats have been to prevent this from happening. You Aussies brought this rodent plague on yourself!
@@naansophi1111 "the native species could have been moved to sanctuaries"..... so we just need an empty continent to put them into. Great idea. But their ecosystems dependent on them? We would need more than one empty continent of the sice of australia for that.
@@rene1054 You should have moved the feral cats to farm land areas where they could hunt and eat rodents. The native species should have been moved into 'National Parks' because they were so "few and so threatened" (meaning that no ecosystem was depending on them)! You can't have it both ways. Either the native species are few and threatened, or they have ecosystems depending on them, which means that they are many!
@@ruru5970 that I have no idea, maybe they have already eaten all they can.. I know snakes only feed a few times a month. But cats are one of the few animals that will kill simply for the thrill.. so it would be worth releasing them.. exept for the same thing.. after the mice are gone the cats would keep killing the native animals. And they would probably wipe out a few species, so in the long run the solution wouldn't be worth it.
@@thomasjones2377 ya i see ...i guess all they can do is to get a hunting dog some American farmers do that to get rid of the mice.......hope them will this is really hard to deal with
I wonder if the fires in 2019, decimating the snake, reptile and bird life thru out Australia Is the cause of why there are so many rats and mice now? Maybe they haven't recovered as quickly as the mice population has, hence the explosion in numbers.
@@charliepotatoes6332 I don't know. I was young. All I remember was millions of mouse pelts with the occupational larger (rabbit) one. We didn't get out the car. My parents, brother and I camped that night and there were quite a few freshly squished mice when we picked up the tent the next morning.... super gross.
So, they have 100's of thousands AU$ laying in bags outdoors, and they complain that the mice come and eat it ? I have 10 chickens and even I know how to secure their food. I don't have a solution for the "destroying the crops" part of the problem, but the " contamining stored grain" is easy to solve.
Hahahha, I see you don't know where 99% of our food come from. Coffee is mostly dried on the open and often(read always) has mice on it or some other animal or insects on it. Cocoa is also going through (partial mostly) fermentation in the open and often is contaminated with mice or bat hair. There is so many crops that goes through same process. If you really want to see facilities that are safe as you say you should be prepared to pay 3 to 10 times higher price for same food you are eating and regulations in whole world would need to be the same.
@@NikolaStamenkovic6 You have no idea what you're talking about. Leaving this out in the open ISN'T PART OF THE PROCESS. It's simply cutting costs. There wouldn't be a mouse plague if the grain was stored properly. The mice wouldn't have booming populations because they wouldn't have the food to sustain those numbers which in turn solves the problem of them destroying the crops. Every other country stores their grains in silos because it's common sense investment. Do you see their prices skyrocketing? No. Want to know why? Because an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. You really think it costs more to invest in silos than to lose 1/2 to 2/3 of your yield? These mouse plagues happen once every decade or so like they said in the video. That means that the farmers are wanting the government to step in and do something about the problem they themselves created. They just don't want to invest their own money into the solution.
@@NikolaStamenkovic6 can you clarify which plant is seen in this video and why it lays outdoor in plastic bags at the mercy of rodents ? Stuffs that are packed together in a plastic bag definitively don't dry... it's the opposite. They rot because the moisture is trapped inside.
Why aren't they using silos to store there stuff? Silos would prevent most of these issues. Literally every farm in Canada does this, even the little farms where it's just a husband and wife. Edit: Im disgusted that the government isn't really doing much about this. The farmers need help! They also need to figure out where they all came from, unless this is a usual Aussie affair that's just got out of control this year?
@@manflabs5209 so weird that he works silos weren't written in a post (I just had to edit the beginning with adding the word silos twice and also added a bit in the end. I wish I had taken a screenshot of it/read your message over first.
@@manflabs5209 why did you say silo? I seem to have had a grammar problem and didn't even say silo once in my original post. Wish I took a screenshot of it
@@manflabs5209 That's their problem. Maybe they shouldn't over produce if they have no storage solutions. Silos don't cost that much. Have you seen the new video by Smarter Every Day? They don't even need to rent or buy heavy equipment to build them. You really think they cost more than the hundreds of thousands lost to mice? Or the millions lost with the larger farmers? An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
@@angelas5099 if this was not so horrid of a thing i would laugh and say as the mouse army attack's an owl air force counter attack's then the cat assault team is sent in to finish them off.
@@jamesavery3559 Yes it is horrid and I hope the situation gets better there soon. I like your plan. Stealth attacks at night by owls with their sweet almost-360 degree vision, great aim with night vision bonus would be great as an airstrike team. 👍 I was thinking of a snake assault team after I read of your owl team, but owls don't get along well with them so your plan of using cats is far better than mine.
@@Automedon2 They need massive packs of trained pest eradication dogs. Those things can wipe out 1000 mice each on a good day with infestations like these
Makes you realise how refined the Maori culture was in that they had developed rodent proof storage houses before the first European had arrived. Each one stood on a single un-climbable pole topped with a flat floor structure.
It's not that they don't know how to store grain properly, it's just that they think they make a bigger profit if they let it lie around in a plastic bag on the ground for a couple of month.
Makes you realise how a different country (NZ) occupied by different peoples (Maori) introduced a different pest (Kiore) into a land and solved their issue with it, while the rodents just went and ate the birds eggs and decimated local fauna.
And then they bait them so all the predators also die and the cycle continues, farming in Australia is a joke, looking at all that land without trees and they wonder why the land drys out and floods so quick
@@feverishyak 70% of the food we grow we give to livestock. It is completely unnecessary considering the amount of food waste that goes on in the name of profit, and how unnecessary it is to consume meat and dairy that's causing all this destruction. To live a plant based diet wouldn't even require less than half of all the space it takes to feed livestock, but people consume meat and dairy regardless. Screw the future generations though, right? Boomers would rather their steak and milk.
@@fawnieee1. Humans are omnivores. Sorry if our biology and physiology don't mesh with your narrative. 2. Remove a meat eating predator from the ecosystem and prey animal populations skyrocket. If 7 billion people stopped eating meat and dairy, what do you think would happen to the populations of animals no longer used for human consumption? Get off your millenial soapbox and accept reality.
As little farmers in europe, we know how it is to battle the wet seasons, the dry ones, the rats, the mice, the laws, the up and far more downs that are thrown to you. I recognize the humor, we all use to keep going on. It is a battle that only farmers really understand. You'll have to prepare yourself always for the next storm to come and I feel the pain of these farmers, I see it in their eyes. We all know the feeling to be beaten and stubbornly stay up right, because its the only thing you can do...keep calm, smile and carry on.
@@resireg Remember that the stupid Aussy farmers (supported by the Aussie government) poisoned their own feral cat population only a couple of years ago! They should have known that this was going to be the result before they started killing instead of relocating the poor cats!
@Jak świat się kręci. They don't "prefer birds", they sometimes kill a bird and that's what made groundlicking morons angry. Keeping the cat population high would solve the mice problem. Putting them down was dumb, knowing the scale of a problem.
@Jak świat się kręci. No they don't. Mice are far easier for cats to catch, then most birds. The mouse explosion in Australia may be a direct result of unnecessarily killing as many cats as possible there just before the uncontrollable explosion of the mouse population there started, as the cats natural role in nature is that of mouse killers and not of bird killers.
Yup They messed with the eco system the nut jobs who call themselves environmental activists . In the animal world each species serves a important role in nature to balance the environment
We inject bales with ammonia in Scotland sometimes to help it keep better, one side effect is that rodents don't like the smell and stay away. Try injecting the bales with ammonia.
The government should reimburse these farmers.. I'm sure tax payers would rather help these guys than some of the stupid things they spend our money on
Remember that the stupid Aussy farmers (supported by the Aussie government) poisoned their own feral cat population only a couple of years ago! They should have known that this was going to be the result before they started killing instead of relocating the poor cats! They get no sympathy from me!
@@patriciagraham2287 In ancient Egypt you lost your head if you harmed a cat. Remember that the stupid Aussy farmers (supported by the Aussie government) poisoned their own feral cat population only a couple of years ago! They should have known that this was going to be the result before they started killing the poor cats!
I remember when they had the same issue with rabbits. They need more natural predators snakes, birds n cats ect. that could be on the decline from the fires.
Australia already has a massive feral cat population that is decimating their wildlife, but is hardly putting a dent in the mice population, which sucks.
@@renl4123 Remember that the stupid Aussy farmers (supported by the Aussie government) poisoned their own feral cat population only a couple of years ago! This is just 'Karma' getting back at them. They should have known that this was going to be the result before they started killing the poor cats! They get no sympathy from me.
I remember hearing about Australia’s mice problem years ago. What a horrible thing to have to deal with. I see or hear one mouse in my house and I freak! Thankfully I have 4 beautiful Bengal cats who are great mousers. I just wish they wouldn’t be so proud of their catch and would stop bringing them to me. I do praise them though, so I’m sure that’s partly why. Good luck Australia!
No not at all. A mice plague like this happens about once every 25 years or 4 times a century, so to rid the feral cats was a good idea. Don't worry. The weather brought them here, the weather will handle the situation. Mother nature WILL reign supreme yet again. 😁👍
My late dad use to tell me that even the dogs got fed up with trying to catch them. That says a lot.
@Fadli Suryanto yeh mate. It’s not only cats that love catching mice.
@@Paul77ozee you should of seen my dog in a rat infested area 2 weeks gone the rats were very proud of him
Even Jack Russells?
Terriers will never get tired of ratting. Ive seen 6 terriers get 1000s of farmland rats in a few hours.
@@irieite9666
I know what you mean. We have 3 Jacks and I can't image any of them getting tired of this job lol
I know he’s laughing and trying to be positive, but you can see he is so drained. I wish him all the luck, no one deserves that.
Get 10 x 50 gallon bins with board ramps and half fill with water. Smear peanut butter on the ramp and on the inside rim of the bins so that the mice have to hang down inside the bin and fall in. Dispose of 50-300,000 mice a night. Replenish the peanut butter every day, and save using poisons that kill owls and dogs.
They deserved it
when you killed tom, there will be jerry and his cousins. they should've breed more snakes or owls before shooting feral cats to death in 2019-2020. maybe they don't deserve that...try telling that to mother nature
@@tommyhadisurya You mean the snakes and owls that died in the bushfires? The fires that destroyed billions of hectares of bushland, homes and an estimated billion animals? There are millions of feral cats that do not belong in the Australian ecosystem. They are an introduced species, as are the mice. However, the mice were able to breed due to good weather and an abundant harvest. You really should educate yourself more on what the feral cats behaviours are like and why they were a problem in Australia. These two are major issues that come to mind:
1: Cats, as with all predatory animals are opportunistic and will go after a slower meal that doesn't necessarily recognise them as a threat. This means they are more likely to go after native animals as they are slower than mice: e.g. Bilbies, native marsupial mice, native lizards, snakes, native birds. Many of their easier prey items are also on the endangered or critically endangered species lists.
2: Cats can reproduce quickly and the argument of 'neuter/desex and release' does not fly as this does not stop a cat from hunting, killing and eating or alternatively playing with their kill.
@@alexsmith6218 nope, those are not the snakes and the owls that I meant sir
And this is why the Egyptians worshipped cats. Literally saved entire cities.
Right - O
I thought Australia also had a cat problem?
Cats are not fussy mind they will kill and eat all the bite-sized Australian wildlife.
Isn't it more humane to sterilise the mice? Anyway cats an introduced species to Australia, should be sterilised too as they are destroying Australia's biodiversity and killing off our marsupials.
@Hase C just afterwards you'll need a apex predator to kill all the dam cat's and then something to wipe them out, it's going to turn out in a arm's race where next thing we know thing's that can kill humans
"For everyone that died, ten came in for the funeral". Said with that wry Aussie humour.
Not true! When my mom died, no one came! LOL
@@JodBronson yeh but pre-covid a typical Rodent funeral was 10,000 mourners, of which at least 50 of them would die during the ceremony and typically They’d be completely consumed before the wakes even stArted
wry aussie humour
Hundreds of millions of predators just died in the fires. Rodens rise in the wake of destruction
come to show my respects, we all have where's the grub .. - humans create artificial perfect habitat for a mouse wake ..
I love how everyone has a suggestion on how to fix this. Pleeeeaaase! If you aren't living in it you have no idea how bad it is. You don't sleep properly for months because of the noise in the walls, and then you hear them under your bed and on the bedside table in the dark. They climb the curtains. They fall down air con vents. They eat wires and ducting. You come home from work and open the house door and the smell just hits you. They crawl into car engine bays and cause damage. This is just in town, not the same nightmare they are facing on the farms. We have baits, 3 cats, fox terrier, 12 traps, bulk traps. It's making no difference. Spare us your lame suggestions. Owls, cats and dogs are over them and cannot consume the amount they need to, and that's only if they survive the baiting.
Is there anything that works??!
@@michelifig6356 rain, then a few frosts.
Extremely informative, thank you. What do you mean "if they survive the baiting"? Who, the mice, or cats and dogs and owls?
@@maticbukovac6966 the mice are surviving the baiting well some of them
It's horrible my condolences I hope this problem fixes itself somehow.. for now all you can do is block up the doors with door stoppers and weather proofing and anything that can seal up the gap and brick up the holes.. it's very hard to completely seal up a house but you can funnel them sometimes in to only a few spots and then deal with them there.
2:35 well I’m never buying grain exported from Australia
Not for a long long time!
If only we knew what we ate.🤐
That single scene cropped my lifespan for 3 years.
Export? Australia will be lucky to meet their own needs. Good time to invest in grain.
@T W The internet has made that impossible. Farmers in the every least would make their own recording and upload it.
Isn’t the grain spoiled after the mice have been all over it? Wouldn’t it be covered in mouse droppings and urine?
and he racing against time to sell it
I think they get sold at cheaper price for non-human consumption.. As animal feed for example
I was thinking the same thing, I don't want to eat bread after seeing this thinking that there could be a possibility my bread was made from this wheat
@@resolecca it can’t be sold for human consumption.
Animal feed or planting
God bless the farmers of Australia. You are our absolute backbone.
But they vote Nationals, shooting themselves in the foot.
The backbone
There just another export industry
We only need 10 percent of the farming inside Australia to support us
IF EVER THERE
@@magsec5 nationals do more for the country towns and farming communities than the scumbag labour and libs thats why they get our vote
the farmers of Australia have destroyed the environment here like no other. Cleared more native bush last year than anyone on the planet except Brazil. They suck our rivers dry, poison the land, introduce pests, cause plagues, destroy forests, all for their own profit. Farmers haven't been the backbone of Australia for decades and I'm sick of hearing them whinging
I was watching this when my cat, attracted by the sqeaking sounds sat watching this with me. Now he's gone out, I'm afraid he'll head for the docks and sneak aboard a ship heading to OZ :-(
Can you blame him?
@@iguanapete3809 Nope! :-)
@Christian Weissmuller That's because we have millions of feral cats that are killing endangered and critically endangered native marsupials, not to mention the people that let their cats out at night (when they know they shouldn't). The 'spay and neuter then release' approach doesn't work. Just because an animal can't reproduce...doesn't stop it eating.
The promised cat holy land!
@Christian Weissmuller no wonder
Even the Ancient Egyptians knew to store their grain on a height.
Much clever than Australians
@@LoneWolf-oj4kz As an Australian, that hurt.
@@archeralknite3357 They say the 'truth hurts.'
@@LoneWolf-oj4kz Not all of us though...
@SyzTeMaTiC What country are you from that does not have mice? May i compliment your use of English since you are not a native speaker.
So what's new? This has been going on forever. You can't store grain that way and the size of the fields are huge. With little thought for wildlife, no hedgerows, no wild areas, no predators, what can you expect.
Food to make infertile too.
I think some farmers are starting to understand that their farms rely on the local ecosystem, of course others just want to poison everything because short term solutions always feel better.
Gotta agree. Storing grain in bags on the ground for "economic reasons"??? Well, hopefully this economic disaster taught them a lesson. Hopefully it won't be humans consuming this grain
Yea, and this annoying rhetoric of poor poor innocent farmers and hellish malevolent mices.
1:45 "there are no Silos in the area for economic reasons."
I'm really sorry for the Farmer, I trully am. But I hope they will revalued that fact. vermin proof silos. If they loose 100.000+ from this plaque alone and the possibility is high for more... It's a sound investment.
You would think it would be common sense. This is the standard farming practice in every other developed nation that I'm aware of. It should be mandated by the government.
@@clashwithkeen Ultimately, they just never cared about the consumer.
Do you know how large properties are in Australia? You might be traveling hundreds of kms to get to one silo because a community might only be able to raise enough money for said silo. They have had drought, fire, flood and now the mice. Many areas do not have the money to fund a silo and 'government funding' can't always be found.
@@alexsmith6218 Farms are "large properties" by nature. This is the dumbest argument I've ever heard. What are you talking about the "community" for? This is the farmer's responsibility. The community also shouldn't have to subsidize the farmers by way of government intervention because they refuse to invest in proper grain storage.
@@clashwithkeen
To assume that everyone should have silos and then say it's against 'common sense' when a farming culture doesn't have one? A very interesting, if not an obtuse point of view.
I shall expand more on my point then, to see if I can further clarify some things in case they did not make it into international news. Farmers in Australia tend to rely on their neighbours and community (which may be far reaching due to radio etc.). They have to because resources can take a long time to get to them. Case in point, the hay runs that were done on a volunteer basis during the recent droughts because some farmers could not afford to pay for feed for their animals at all.
So with Australian news in 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020 of farmers having been on the brink of bankruptcy, with banks at their doors, no food on their tables because they've given everything to their land to try and make it work.......how much more do they have to give? Farmers have ended up killing themselves because they have seen no way out of the drought, fire, floods and their desperate financial situations. I am unsure how widely the devastation was covered in whichever place you're from, however it is insulting for someone to assume so much about a situation that it is grossly clear that they have no grasp on.
Side note, how would you know if someone has 'refused to invest in proper grain storage'? I'm sure if there'd been an opportunity, the farmers may have thought about silos. With a drought from 2003-2012 (longer in some places) and a drought from 2017 to current....they may not have broken even before 2017. It is very sad to think that there's a "Why should we help the people who put food on our tables?" mentality.
Please come to England and teach the current BBC staff the skills needed for fair, balanced, interesting and unhysterical documentary making.
While your at it swing by America where they could work with 99% of our entire mainstream media!
Hear! Hear! X
Then here to the U.S. of A.
@@theliftedbar4610 Doesn't matter which News channel you watch because it's all propaganda
Don’t be so sure about ABC....check out the disgraceful journalism of famous Australian actor Craig M. They scripted so called ‘victims’ of sexual assault!
I feel bad for these farmers. It's heart breaking.
it's their own fault. Australian farmers have turned our country into a salted wasteland
@@australien6611
And what country do you get your food from?
@@frankkolton1780 our food supplies come from all over the world not just Australia. 75% of grain grown here is exported so they aren't "the backbone of the country" they are profit driven businesses that destroy the environment for profit
Remember that the stupid Aussy farmers (supported by the Aussie government)
poisoned their own feral cat population only a couple of years ago!
This is just 'Karma' getting back at them.
They should have known that this was going to be the result before they started killing the poor cats!
They get no sympathy from me.
Why , its sloppy farming , they have destroyed the countryside anyway with overstocking and water extraction ..A farmer is a bloke exploiting land for profit with no looking to the future at all and lobbying governments to encourage us to eat more milk and meat during a climate catastrophe .
The mice aren't as big a problem as the rats that are in our government
You're right there
Exactly
By "our" I hope you mean worldwide because this shit is ridiculous!
Both had something to do with the CCP!
Believe in Allah and worship him or else he will inflict more punishment .
This might be a sign for the people who don't believe .
Good to see these lads still cracking a laugh and a smile, one probably need it to get thru those tough times
Those guys are lazy. They are not killing the mice
they are on cam and on cam you pretend.
@@resireg farmers are usually anything but lazy dude!
@@resireg if farmers are lazy they wouldn't have literally tons of hays and grains.
@@ヨシァ they are always expecting the government to fix their problems. Instead of taking care themselves
Just shows how dangerous it is to underfund our science institutions in Australia considering the input of CSIRO
The CSIRO has never stoped a single mouse plague in 50 years that I know of . I don't think spending billions on scientists is the answer to this . They need to spend most of the money on poisoning them early and we know how to do that and safer feed and grain storage techniques . I went through a mouse plague one time and I saved our house and garden by immediately meshing right around my house . I learnt that the plague was coming from cattle drovers that saw them moving not far from us. It's no different to grasshopper plagues it's all about early intervention . The scientists can be the ones to work out the early intervention part but not soak up all the money as they usually do .
Just wandering 1) what would be the side effects if science would introduce gene (not a good idea) that makes mouse sterile? 2) are there any uninvasive predators in Australia that are adapted to drought seasons and modern farm activity? 3) if Australia would go veggie and there wouldn't be any cattle industry, would that have impact on mouse survivability rates during drought seasons?
@@ksd593 And after 50 million dollars is gone the gene may still not work . The scientists have soaked up Millions on cane toad research and they are still spreading and some fool scientist introduced them . Why do you think they down funded the CSIRO because for the money they soaked up there was little progress . Scientists should play a role but they should not be the only group in play getting all the money . If you study some of the projects like Macquarie Island there has been huge amounts of money spent when just a team of shooters could have done the job over two or three years for about 20 times less money .
Science like Medicine is a bit of a racket at times .
CSIRO should be defunded completely and replaced with competent scientists who are interested in helping the rural sector rather than just looking at their scientific careers. Most CSIRO "scientists" are academics and should be terminated in mass.
@@Romeoleus That is a bit extreme by partially correct . They have already done that to some extent as many had a well paid job but no projects to work on. There is many very competent and smart scientists in the CSIRO . They have done some very go work in the past but the Government tends to be narrow minded when it comes to solving problems and just defer to scientists all the time when simpler cheaper solutions could already be out there .
I recall a friend telling me of this problem in Australia before I left as an exchange student in ‘99. Wish them the best in safely getting through this
I bet as soon as the mice move into Sydney something will be done the government will step in a lot quicker. Absolutely appalling response from our government.
City dwellers get screwed over by Liberal/National policies as well. No one is safe from these corrupt, worthless sacks of shit. What we as a country need to do is A: Learn to ignore the MSM. B: Stop voting for conservative parties.
your blaming the plague on the government ?
@@australien6611 they are saying that the government should be doing something about it. its not their fault its happening, it is their fault they aren't doing anything
@@s4dg I'm sure the government and farmers everywhere will be delighted to hear from you with your brilliant solutions. . .
They aint leaving mate
This Australian State has gone through so much. Heartbreaking really.
Seems like it wasn't too long ago that people in Australia were complaining about feral cats killing everything that moved. Apparently that problem has been solved.
LoL...
I was just thinking the same thing. They were shooting cats.
Yes, they are still a huge problem for biodiversity.
As a kid I remember many local farmers had 20 plus cats on each farm I never understood why until now.
@@davidturnbull4044 Well, snakes help but that comes with its own problems...
Eeww the grinder that he uses to grind grains are now being used to grind rodents. Good luck Aussies.
Its an auger and its used to move grain. Cheers
🤮🤮🤮🤮
Grind the mus
Time to hire the Mink Man and his crew of terriers and mink.
Rip sherny
I take my hat of the people living and working on the land they know what good times and bad times are and keep going on no matter what God Bless
This has been an issue for sooo many years in Australia, why haven’t farmers looked into exclusion, it would be costly but it would provide a permanent solution.
Cats eaten by spiders?
They need to put it in silos. It's literally sitting out in the open for any animal to dive in, eat and crap into.
Duncan Donut Donut sealing out pests, it would be costly but it would be a one time investment that could save a ton of product from being destroyed, I’m not sure how the hay farmer would protect the bailed hay but the grain farmers could definitely do it.
In the UK as farmers our stores must be bird and rat proof, and measures in place to catch or kill mice. Can't sell grain at all for human consumption without it, and only a few outlets for it for animal feed.
Peter Weeks exactly! Can’t understand how those practices haven’t been implemented yet
The resilience and attitude of the farmer are the basis of our future. If only the city cousin could take a page of what they endure Australia would be a tough bone to chew. The Aussie spirit still burns. Hardships met with a smile.
Snakes: groom yourselves lads were going to have a feast tonight.
Plot Twist: The rats fight back and The snake Dead Because There are so many of them.
I feel so sad for the farmers. They work so hard without big incomes, but the harvest is destroyed by the horrific mice plague. Hopefully Australian government will imburse some money to these farmers to help them get through this difficult time. I hope the ordinary Australians appreciate and treasure all the food including rice, corps, veggies, fruits, meats, etc, as well as other resources like water, electricity and gas. And educate the young generations to treasure those things and don’t waste any food. I saw in schools and childcares, you can not believe how much food have been wasted. The teachers and children don’t care about the environment. The air conditions and lights can be run all day long even no any people inside the rooms.I feel very sad and sorry for all the farmers’ hard work, suffering time, and all the difficulties they have to face in different seasons and years.
nah farmers a rich assholes. They get everything they deserve as far as I'm concerned. Hard working? Most days they stop work at noon and sleep in whenever it rains
Stay safe and strong for those farmers affected.You're amazing!!! Peace with Love from Malaysia 🇲🇾🇲🇾🇲🇾🇲🇾💓💓
Wishing the best to these people and anyone else dealing with this kind of problem.
"They'll soon be back and in greater numbers"
Somebody better call anakin and tell him what they did to his mom
Just a thought mate, how about an electric fence with very fine grates
This sounds like a solid idea to be honest
Mice r smart they probably figure out to go underneath it
Rodents can dig.
@@cadburychocolates9891 it would stop a lot of them tho
It would get dirty and be useless
alright bois, bring out the flamethrower
Exactly what I was thinking
There is no Boris, the Soviet collapse decades ago. Get real and deal with the problem yourself.
We going to war lmao
Is it not possible to find a better way to store grain? The bags look pretty easy to chew through. There are cracks in the storage buildings and equipment. The bales are sitting outdoors with only a tarp. Seems some of the sheds have bare ground floors. Wouldn't it be possible to at least store it better?
Yeah the cause of the problem is staring them right in the face but for some reason still haven't figured it out.
It's usually the price of sufficient flooring, and cement will eventually break down after such heavy amount of grain year after year if not done correctly, and many of the things they do don't guarantee mice don't get in, we have a grain bin suspended from the ground, with a steel floor and even more cement underneath that, yet somehow mice can still get in, in large enough numbers there's little you can do against mice aside from digging a moat around your property with cement walls double reinforced around.
@@kailarsen154 I wonder if electrifying the grain bin walls would do the trick. There are so many ways to trap and kill mice. Maybe somebody needs to manufacture giant mousetraps for times like these since it just seems to be due to happen. That guy using a plastic kiddie pool had a good idea. Aussies seem to have more than their fair share of animal issues. And yeah, I guess I'd be thinking about trenching... at least the flood waters wouldn't go to waste in a moat.
in wales uk we use teams of dogs about 40 to 50 dogs they go to a farm then let the dogs do the work there trained to do. the farmers pay the lads in beer and fuel to all get there.
Dogs don’t do much against literally a million mice unfortunately
@@MisterFramboise i think you under think what a big team of dogs can do
@@MisterFramboise do the math a dog can kill 1 mouse every sec x that by 50
@@MisterFramboise and the dogs are there all day and guys shooting it adds up
@@danforbes4513 very unrealistic number there considering mice don’t die easily unless bitten and they would scatter and hide as soon as the dogs arrive.
This must be PETA’s wet dream lol
We farm wheat in Montana. I know that mice are in and around all our farm buildings and equipment but never like this. It makes me shudder.
whats gross is, its also in peoples houses in towns, my mums house is plgaued with them as are many others in upper Victoria
Montana has very cold winters which helps keep them under control
Yeah, They'll get to it have you ever seen it so bad!
It is absolutely disgusting! It is beyond m comprehension. Growing up in Oklahoma we would have a handful in the hay barn, totally manageable with a few cats, but this is just horrible!
In US, bob cats, foxes n coyotes, etc. Aussie farmers killed off animals, like, tasmanian tigers in favour of sheeps and cows.
Prince of Egypt all over again
I know this is a big problem in Australia but I can’t get over the fact that a doge literally took a dead mouse at 2:42
2021: Humans social distancing
Mice: Ah, we don't care about covid, lets get some of that stuff.
I don't understand why do the farmers leave grain outside for the mice to eat
They have more grain than bins to store it in.
Didn't your government declare war on street cats? 🤣🤣
Yep and still do
Yeah. When I went to Europe before COVID, one of the most striking differences is that they let cats roam free without owners. We literally kill every single one. My cousins were like wtf? Australia is weird sometimes
@@Nick-ce6lt why?? Cats are destructive pest and we kill them with good reason
Lmao This remembered me About "Emu war" Australia VS EMU (It's own national Bird)
@@Whylivere enjoy then mice soup
gotta keep positive even in the darkest of times that's the only way you can get through and look back at this when this is over
God bless all of our farmers. Much love from America 🙏🏻❤️✝️🇺🇸
Remember that the stupid Aussy farmers (supported by the Aussie government)
poisoned their own feral cat population only a couple of years ago!
This is just 'Karma' getting back at them.
They should have known that this was going to be the result before they started killing the poor cats!
They get no sympathy from me.
Hmm, maybe they shouldn't have killed all those cats after all! lol
Exactly 😂😂😂😂
They introduced cats to get rid of mice, which led to another problem they started killing natural wildlife leading to endangered and extinction level threat that is why they are killings the cats.
It happens because these are not indigenous to australian.
It’s a domino effect
@@gerard4039 Most non-Australians have no clue what we're talking about. lol I'm American and I only know because I think I saw an episode of Vice five years ago about it being open season on cats in Australia. They also showed the dude that was making a living making belts and trinkets made out of cat parts! lol
Yes we love killing cats, it protects our natives
My heart goes out to the farmers of Australia.
Remember that the stupid Aussy farmers (supported by the Aussie government)
poisoned their own feral cat population only a couple of years ago!
This is just 'Karma' getting back at them.
They should have known that this was going to be the result before they started killing the poor cats!
They get no sympathy from me.
@Bob the Fish The cats were certainly not as devastating as the rats and mice plague is going to be for Australia. The cats diet was 87,5% rodents, so the native species were not as threatened by the cats as you claim. Enjoy your rodent-infested grains!
@Bob the Fish If the mice and rodents are doing "no harm" compared with the cats, then why are you here watching these "terrible news stories" about rodent plagues in Australia? Why are the farmers complaining? They clearly want sympathy... Well, they do not get any sympathy from me for creating their own rodent plague by killing millions of cats. And this bulls*t about "native species" was just an excuse to kill cats. The cats used your properties as litterboxes, and who can blame them for thinking that "your property was sh*t"? At least they didn't discharge on your food produce though, unlike the rodents. Bon Appetit! :-D
Alot of people in the comment suggesting holes or ditch filled with water traps. There are two things againts that, first people don't realise the sheer scales of Australia farms, most are far larger than farms in other countries. There are farms here larger than some countries. Second is that water is very very scarce and precious.
That just leaves chemical sprays or a bunch of rat-killing dogs.
@@MK_ULTRA420 Or use silos like everybody else.
@@eljanrimsa5843 That too
Rats can swim, do how will water traps work?
What did they think was going to happen? They don't use silos? They just leave it sitting out in bags? lmao That's like a cattle farmer not using dogs or fences. You're just feeding the surrounding wildlife at that point.
Yeah agreed, pretty much idiotic.
However all the silos are full but my questions why don’t these farmers have their own silos, common sense risk management
@@Daniel07Eleven I agree. And it's disgusting to leave crops for humans outside, letting it all exposed to the elements and wild unhygienic animals. I think its just easier for them to leave it out in a huge pile rather than putting them away. Its a lot more work and time.
@@littlehomeforest5972 exactly. I would never buy a single grain from those farmers. They don't deserve it.
The mice are not the problem, the farmers are the problem.
I am sorry for all the people who eat products that have the grains as ingredients, from those unhygienic places....
@@Daniel07Eleven its unfortunate they don't regulate these farmers. Is this the standard in Australia? I thought we are better than this. It's appalling! I didn't know that's how farmers store food for humans. I literally thought they are food for farm animals. Some farmers said we can't sell cos its 'contaminated', clearly, but who to say they're not going to pick out the bad bits and sell it anyway. Not like they will willingly throw tonnes of grains out.
Imagine if we chuck our groceries in the back yard and covered it with a tarp or something. You expect the wildlife to leave it alone?
@@Daniel07Eleven exactly! I know what you mean. Its like that with restaurants lol if you see everything for what it is you would not eat at most places lol.
Yes, I think government support and fund farmers because they do have it hard sometimes. And silos are a long term investment just like water tanks, its inevitable. Clearly it's an ongoing problem.
Why put it off?
Get every cat you can from wherever you can, breed them and let them live around your property feeding on mice. This is the way ancient Egyptians saved themselves from the mice plagues.
They killed them also lmao that's why this is happening looked it up. They bait food with poison that kills cats and drop them outta helicopters.
@@JDog801 can't they use smth that doesn't kill cats?
@@MysticalJessica they want to get rid of the feral cat population they've been doing this for years. Look it up.
@@JDog801 Oh I didn't know! Well maybe that's why they are getting a mice plague then...haha
@@MysticalJessica Same thing I thought 😭🤣 seems like they deserve it to me, need cats to keep the mice in keep. We have 3 beautiful pet cats that never go outside. Even have around 4 feral cats we feed outside of our house. Mice can't live a prosperous life here.
Easy problem to fix tbh. Just dig a 2 meter hole and put a large open container in the ground and place a slippery platform for them to cross and a plate of grain in the middle. 2 meter by 2 meter container and fill the container 2 feet of water. Leave it overnight and then come back in the morning. There will be about a 100 in there that fell in and drowned. Add a few more containers out there by your farm and that should take care of like 90% of them. You're gonna have to shovel the dead bodies out with a shovel and put them in the ground. You should make it a metal container cus they will chew through a plastic one.
OK, but why would mice go for a plate of grain when there are clearly mountains of it laying around?
"Chew threw"... righto Einstein.
@@maticbukovac6966 You wouldn't just start doing this while you had a mountain of food out. You do it every day before you collect that mountain of food. When they do come around they wouldn't be in as high numbers. A sack of grain isn't a good choice for storage either. The fact that they're not storing it in a silo is they don't plan on keep the grain for long term use anyway. There's a good chance the reason why this is as bad as it is because they don't have silo's to store grain out of the hands of pests. A silo will cost them a mil and it takes a few years to have it pay off. (Grain farmers only make around 25k-75k a year. They make something like 1-3mil but it goes back to farming, land, machine costs.)
People are doing things like this, there'll be another 100 the next night and on and on, maybe 80 after a week, but then back to catching 100 every night.They simply come in from the next paddock.
@@BeamRider100 Yeah you're right. When you have a problem that reproduces quicker than you can destroy what can you do?
Just a question, did the lock down do this ? Last year? If people are not moving , free run for mice, abandon food at restaurants , and mice breed quick. Could that have caused this?
Our politicians are a joke these days...
extremely sad to see the help is too late as usual.
I mean what can you do.
Vote labor!
voters are a joke! the reason politicians cant do anything about a problem they can only take money from one group and give to their friends.
also they had all the chances from a record harvest and still didint invest in silos....
Help too early they won't be able to make a big spending. 😉
Too focused on identity politics than the food supply
Reminds me of the game: A Plague's Tale. Stay strong Australia.
Apparently, ScoMo couldn't find alternate buyers for Oz barley, hence harvest pileups, hence the mice. But it is very neat that they labeled it as "2020 was so wet & the harvest was so goooood"
Looks like there will be lots of well fed snakes in the coming months😁
and that would be the solution :) they need to create more spaces for predators. if this land is only covered when the crop is growing, this wont attract predators. grow wild stripes between the fields, give nature some room. and anture will provide for u. as always
where are the cats at?!
cats, cats and more cats
@@georgmettmann5722 I was wondering how much of this is a result of monoculture farming methods but I really don’t know enough beyond being able to ask the question
@@georgmettmann5722 at this point, no natural remedy such as increasing number of predator will help.
With that number cats, snakes, owls, will become the mice's food instead. They will be overwhelmed by the huge number of mouse.
The early bird catches the worm But it's the second mouse that gets the cheese
Is there anything more satisfying that watching a good old fashioned ausi mouse plague?
@@kyleklmondwa9042 You would be a Kyle. Gonna double down and bet you’re also American. Ironic that it’s a video about a rat plague and you show up, don’t want to miss the family gathering? I don’t mean to step on your DCs, Kyle, but your insecurities regarding the changes in your country have nothing to do with Australia.
What difference does vertical grain hoppestyle ylsilos make? Would it not be in the country's interests to help farmers buy and install these and the equipment to lift the grain into it? also I have never heard of burying hay or straw.... how does that work? Is there a way to do this and keep it clean (not mouldy)
I will have a go at answering your 4 questions. 1. difference is cost. like the difference between buying a plastic bag and buying a new shed. 2. Sure its in the countries interest, farmers are never short of subsidies however this past year happened to be a huge bumper crop, way in excess of the past 5-10 years for many areas. Having millions of dollars in unused silos dotting the landscape helps no-one 3. Burying straw is like magnets. 4. Its not hay if its not dry. However, cattle aren't picky when they are hungry. Google: Silage
Why In winter less mice, I think: more energy used for maintenance energy rather 'reproduce';in burrow eat 'summer gains'~outof sight; more predators around houses 'warm' more food sources(+mice).
For the same reason humans are often less active and more depressed during the cooler, darker months.
Selling crops grains mixed with mice 😱...
As prince of Egypt said it best: “I send the pestilence and plague into your house into your head into your streams into your streets into drink into your bread, upon your cattle, upon your sheep, upon your oxen in your field, into your dreams into your sleep until you break until you yield. I send the swarm, I send the hoard thus saith the lord.”
Galatians 6:7
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
@@henrydaley1255 ?
A well known local farmer won the biggest lottery jackpot ever, the media got onto him and asked what are you goin to do with all that money?
He looked at the bloke an said "Well l guess I'll just keep farming until it runs out"
I feel so sad for the farmers.
Well I don't! You reap what you sough.
When you sough GENO CIDE
you will reap death!
Look back at Australia's history of how they ki//ed the Indigenous, stole the land and commit racism against them.
"We've over-produced and stored tons and tons of mouse food and can't understand why the mice are thriving".
Jesus.
Remember that the stupid Aussy farmers (supported by the Aussie government)
poisoned their own feral cat population only a couple of years ago!
They should have known that this was going to be the result before they started killing the poor cats!
They get no sympathy from me.
@@naansophi1111 the "poor cats" kill more native species than they do pests like this. keeping them around is diminishing returns. they deserved to be culled
@@atomik7066 No, and NO! The cats diet were 87,5% rodents and only 12,5% native species. Check your facts! The native species could have been moved to sanctuaries. The rodents are everywhere, and so should the cats have been to prevent this from happening. You Aussies brought this rodent plague on yourself!
@@naansophi1111 "the native species could have been moved to sanctuaries"..... so we just need an empty continent to put them into. Great idea. But their ecosystems dependent on them? We would need more than one empty continent of the sice of australia for that.
@@rene1054 You should have moved the feral cats to farm land areas where they could hunt and eat rodents. The native species should have been moved into 'National Parks' because they were so "few and so threatened" (meaning that no ecosystem was depending on them)! You can't have it both ways. Either the native species are few and threatened, or they have ecosystems depending on them, which means that they are many!
Nature have a balance never miss with it .....
Unfortunately cats are not native to Australia.
@@thomasjones2377 interesting 🤔...but whats missing here then....where is the other animals that eats mice like snakes and other reptiles
@@ruru5970 that I have no idea, maybe they have already eaten all they can.. I know snakes only feed a few times a month.
But cats are one of the few animals that will kill simply for the thrill.. so it would be worth releasing them.. exept for the same thing.. after the mice are gone the cats would keep killing the native animals. And they would probably wipe out a few species, so in the long run the solution wouldn't be worth it.
@@thomasjones2377 ya i see ...i guess all they can do is to get a hunting dog some American farmers do that to get rid of the mice.......hope them will this is really hard to deal with
The Egyptians worshipped the cats like Gods and their civilisation thrived. Australians killed all the cats and the mice plague came.
Where are the cats? My kitten would love to go on a holiday on your farm mate
They kill feral cats with poison.
Snakes also wonderful. I keep some little slitherings in my veg garden
With the number we see on the video, these mouse will eat your cat instead.
The number is far too big
😂😂😂
My grandads cat has given up
I wonder if the fires in 2019, decimating the snake, reptile and bird life thru out Australia
Is the cause of why there are so many rats and mice now? Maybe they haven't recovered as quickly as the mice population has, hence the explosion in numbers.
That's possibly true. I agree. It looks like a biosystem very out of kilter.
They killed their cats , so you get what you sow .
@@kinglar cats are an absolute menace to native species. The fewer there are the better.
As someone who is very very afraid of mice, this is a nightmare to me.
@ lol cause it’s interesting 💀
I remember travelling to Adelaide during a mouse plague in the 70s. The hwy was literally carpeted with squished mice
Omg, was it full of maggots or just rotting flesh?
@@charliepotatoes6332 I don't know. I was young. All I remember was millions of mouse pelts with the occupational larger (rabbit) one. We didn't get out the car. My parents, brother and I camped that night and there were quite a few freshly squished mice when we picked up the tent the next morning.... super gross.
@@catherina2611 that's very scary
So, they have 100's of thousands AU$ laying in bags outdoors, and they complain that the mice come and eat it ?
I have 10 chickens and even I know how to secure their food.
I don't have a solution for the "destroying the crops" part of the problem, but the " contamining stored grain" is easy to solve.
Hahahha, I see you don't know where 99% of our food come from. Coffee is mostly dried on the open and often(read always) has mice on it or some other animal or insects on it.
Cocoa is also going through (partial mostly) fermentation in the open and often is contaminated with mice or bat hair.
There is so many crops that goes through same process. If you really want to see facilities that are safe as you say you should be prepared to pay 3 to 10 times higher price for same food you are eating and regulations in whole world would need to be the same.
@@NikolaStamenkovic6 You have no idea what you're talking about. Leaving this out in the open ISN'T PART OF THE PROCESS. It's simply cutting costs. There wouldn't be a mouse plague if the grain was stored properly. The mice wouldn't have booming populations because they wouldn't have the food to sustain those numbers which in turn solves the problem of them destroying the crops. Every other country stores their grains in silos because it's common sense investment. Do you see their prices skyrocketing? No. Want to know why? Because an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. You really think it costs more to invest in silos than to lose 1/2 to 2/3 of your yield? These mouse plagues happen once every decade or so like they said in the video. That means that the farmers are wanting the government to step in and do something about the problem they themselves created. They just don't want to invest their own money into the solution.
@@NikolaStamenkovic6 the food you mention is not related here, you can't leave grain outside like that, that is why they invented silo for
@@NikolaStamenkovic6 can you clarify which plant is seen in this video and why it lays outdoor in plastic bags at the mercy of rodents ? Stuffs that are packed together in a plastic bag definitively don't dry... it's the opposite. They rot because the moisture is trapped inside.
Why aren't they using silos to store there stuff? Silos would prevent most of these issues.
Literally every farm in Canada does this, even the little farms where it's just a husband and wife.
Edit: Im disgusted that the government isn't really doing much about this. The farmers need help! They also need to figure out where they all came from, unless this is a usual Aussie affair that's just got out of control this year?
Exactly. They don't have a mice problem, they have a farmer problem.
Maybe because it's not that simple. How much do you think silos cost? How do you store so much hay?
@@manflabs5209 so weird that he works silos weren't written in a post (I just had to edit the beginning with adding the word silos twice and also added a bit in the end.
I wish I had taken a screenshot of it/read your message over first.
@@manflabs5209 why did you say silo? I seem to have had a grammar problem and didn't even say silo once in my original post. Wish I took a screenshot of it
@@manflabs5209 That's their problem. Maybe they shouldn't over produce if they have no storage solutions. Silos don't cost that much. Have you seen the new video by Smarter Every Day? They don't even need to rent or buy heavy equipment to build them. You really think they cost more than the hundreds of thousands lost to mice? Or the millions lost with the larger farmers? An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
jeez...i think the only way to combat these beasty's is to build a bloody moat around the area where the grain is stored.
I imagined the grain as treasure in wooden chests which are to be moved into a castle and a mouse army planning to raid em in transit. 😂
@@angelas5099 if this was not so horrid of a thing i would laugh and say as the mouse army attack's an owl air force counter attack's then the cat assault team is sent in to finish them off.
@@jamesavery3559 Yes it is horrid and I hope the situation gets better there soon.
I like your plan. Stealth attacks at night by owls with their sweet almost-360 degree vision, great aim with night vision bonus would be great as an airstrike team. 👍 I was thinking of a snake assault team after I read of your owl team, but owls don't get along well with them so your plan of using cats is far better than mine.
@@angelas5099 You have no idea of scale, do you? Tens of millions of mice
@@Automedon2 They need massive packs of trained pest eradication dogs. Those things can wipe out 1000 mice each on a good day with infestations like these
Makes you realise how refined the Maori culture was in that they had developed rodent proof storage houses before the first European had arrived. Each one stood on a single un-climbable pole topped with a flat floor structure.
It's not that they don't know how to store grain properly, it's just that they think they make a bigger profit if they let it lie around in a plastic bag on the ground for a couple of month.
Makes you realise how a different country (NZ) occupied by different peoples (Maori) introduced a different pest (Kiore) into a land and solved their issue with it, while the rodents just went and ate the birds eggs and decimated local fauna.
How does the grain get separated from the mice do-do when it's sold?
It should be fermented, distill the alcohol, and add it to petrol/gasoline.🚜🛻🚗🛵
Is there a relation between aussie mass hunting for stray cats year ago??
Of course
No it was due to flood
I sincerely hope this ends soon and I can only imagine how awful it must be when your home is swarming with mice.
I think this is beyond cats. Cats are good for getting rid of mice before an infestation occurs.
I'm from Canada and enjoy watching all kinds of shows and news from Australia.😊😊
You should donate Sharon. What better way to show your appreciation.
Shush Australia don't exist, we're all paid actors. Lol hello there Sharon ;)
@@user-zb5tq3bs4f donate to what?.
@@TheEarthHistorysConfusing lol cause your on the other side of the world from us😉😉
@@TheEarthHistorysConfusing To me, if there's no argument against it.
And then they bait them so all the predators also die and the cycle continues, farming in Australia is a joke, looking at all that land without trees and they wonder why the land drys out and floods so quick
YEP, It’s short term hyper productivist farming for exportations with very little care for what lever legacy will be left for the Younger generations.
guess we should just not grow grain i spose.
@@feverishyak 70% of the food we grow we give to livestock. It is completely unnecessary considering the amount of food waste that goes on in the name of profit, and how unnecessary it is to consume meat and dairy that's causing all this destruction. To live a plant based diet wouldn't even require less than half of all the space it takes to feed livestock, but people consume meat and dairy regardless.
Screw the future generations though, right? Boomers would rather their steak and milk.
@@fawnieee Wow! Your vegan dream just solved Australia's rat problem and the world hunger. Congrats!!!
@@fawnieee1. Humans are omnivores. Sorry if our biology and physiology don't mesh with your narrative.
2. Remove a meat eating predator from the ecosystem and prey animal populations skyrocket. If 7 billion people stopped eating meat and dairy, what do you think would happen to the populations of animals no longer used for human consumption?
Get off your millenial soapbox and accept reality.
As little farmers in europe, we know how it is to battle the wet seasons, the dry ones, the rats, the mice, the laws, the up and far more downs that are thrown to you. I recognize the humor, we all use to keep going on. It is a battle that only farmers really understand. You'll have to prepare yourself always for the next storm to come and I feel the pain of these farmers, I see it in their eyes. We all know the feeling to be beaten and stubbornly stay up right, because its the only thing you can do...keep calm, smile and carry on.
Someone from PETA was calling for a "catch and release program" with the mice.
Lmao!!! No. What the need are predators.
PETA are brain dead activists so yeah, not really shocked
Nu uhh?
@@Whylivere Couldn't have said it better. Your comment is 👑
Let them loose at their house
That is so very sad for the farmers
I hope the government fines them for being lazy. Where are the traps? They are not killing the mice
@@resireg are you brain dead I guarantee that you don’t own a farm and don’t know the struggles of running one.
@@haydenhsu3016 STFU, rich boy from a long line of thieves!
@@resireg Remember that the stupid Aussy farmers (supported by the Aussie government)
poisoned their own feral cat population only a couple of years ago!
They should have known that this was going to be the result before they started killing instead of relocating the poor cats!
2:36 So satisfying to finely see a portion get minced up.
Let's see: Isn't Australia the country that declared war against feral cats and dingoes? They are reaping what they sowed.
Emus, cats, mice, toads. You name it, we want it dead.
@Jak świat się kręci. They don't "prefer birds", they sometimes kill a bird and that's what made groundlicking morons angry. Keeping the cat population high would solve the mice problem. Putting them down was dumb, knowing the scale of a problem.
@Yes No Indeed, my great grandpa was a farmer and he kept few cats around the farm. Never had mice/rat problem.
@Jak świat się kręci. No they don't. Mice are far easier for cats to catch, then most birds. The mouse explosion in Australia may be a direct result of unnecessarily killing as many cats as possible there just before the uncontrollable explosion of the mouse population there started, as the cats natural role in nature is that of mouse killers and not of bird killers.
Yup They messed with the eco system the nut jobs who call themselves environmental activists . In the animal world each species serves a important role in nature to balance the environment
We inject bales with ammonia in Scotland sometimes to help it keep better, one side effect is that rodents don't like the smell and stay away. Try injecting the bales with ammonia.
The stray cat you killed is laughing at this
The government should reimburse these farmers.. I'm sure tax payers would rather help these guys than some of the stupid things they spend our money on
They really should!
Absolutely
The govt should buy them cats.
Remember that the stupid Aussy farmers (supported by the Aussie government)
poisoned their own feral cat population only a couple of years ago!
They should have known that this was going to be the result before they started killing instead of relocating the poor cats!
They get no sympathy from me!
@@naansophi1111 it’s so easy to give an opinion when you are not the one living there.
Damn! You need a platoon of terriers.
sweeping mice with your mobile phone is one of the highest full aussie crocodile dundee mode ever
Australia: how can we get rid of these mice?
Germany: I think I know a guy
Who is that guy?
Cat
@@fathimathumeyma2269 the pied piper
@@Sumschmuck Correct!
The Egyptians might have an answer???
@@patriciagraham2287 In ancient Egypt you lost your head if you harmed a cat.
Remember that the stupid Aussy farmers (supported by the Aussie government)
poisoned their own feral cat population only a couple of years ago!
They should have known that this was going to be the result before they started killing the poor cats!
"Hans Get Ze Flammenwerfer"
Actually in the early 80's farmers used flamethrowers to combat a mouse plague
Seems like a good way to get a bushfire
Lol....do mice practice social distancing ?
I remember when they had the same issue with rabbits. They need more natural predators snakes, birds n cats ect. that could be on the decline from the fires.
Australia already has a massive feral cat population that is decimating their wildlife, but is hardly putting a dent in the mice population, which sucks.
@@renl4123 you mean the feral cats population that they massively exterminated these last years?
Look forward to a huge brown snake explosion
@@renl4123 Remember that the stupid Aussy farmers (supported by the Aussie government)
poisoned their own feral cat population only a couple of years ago!
This is just 'Karma' getting back at them.
They should have known that this was going to be the result before they started killing the poor cats!
They get no sympathy from me.
@@KirtianM Exactly!!
Inez. Australia there is a bounty on feral cats. Instead of killing the cats, let them live and they’ll stop the mouse problem.
sounds reasonable
The song at 1:32 is called Village Outback by Terry Devine-King if anyone is interested.
I wonder what happened to all the feral cats Australia was battling a couple of years ago.
Mice at em
good point
They killed all the 🐱🐈 cats now karma is paying back 👍
@@TelephotoTails there's still many feral cats doing heaps of damage.
They are most likely getting fed well I would say.
I remember hearing about Australia’s mice problem years ago. What a horrible thing to have to deal with. I see or hear one mouse in my house and I freak! Thankfully I have 4 beautiful Bengal cats who are great mousers. I just wish they wouldn’t be so proud of their catch and would stop bringing them to me. I do praise them though, so I’m sure that’s partly why. Good luck Australia!
i think if you show your cat you're scared they might understand 🙄😅😅😅hopefully they dont see this as offence
Why is the grain stored in a shed on ground level and not at high storage.?
I guess killing all those feral cats wasn't such a good idea.
No not at all. A mice plague like this happens about once every 25 years or 4 times a century, so to rid the feral cats was a good idea. Don't worry. The weather brought them here, the weather will handle the situation. Mother nature WILL reign supreme yet again. 😁👍
During a mouse plague cats are like "yawn there's goes another one" Even they get sick of them.
Its always a good idea, save the natives
say that when you are starving .