Pests are more than a nuisance to livestock, they can potentially drive your profits down as pest irritation can lead to stress that can affect reproduction, weight gain and overall stock health. Pests can be problematic for both livestock in the pasture and in confined housing settings. Unlike people, livestock are out where pests can harass them all the time.
Mice cause serious damage to the livestock feed. A colony of 100 mice will consume over one tonne of feed in one year. Feed contaminated. A rat can contaminate 10 times the amount of feed it eats with its droppings, urine and hair. A rat produces 25,000 droppings per year, a mouse 17,000. The US Department of Agriculture estimates that the equivalent of more than US$2 billion in feed is destroyed by rodents each year.