“When farmer John Gregory entered his piggery he couldn’t believe what he saw – mice attacking his pigs. Since he first saw them dining out on his prized stock in Wynarka, 130km east of Adelaide, the 50-year-old father of four has been at his wit’s end about how to get rid of them. Now, as a desperate last resort, he’s resorted to covering his pigs in engine oil to protect them from the mice, which he says are turned off by the taste. “The mouse problem got really bad in April,” Mr Gregory said. “We went away in the school holidays and when we came back we drove up the driveway and it looked like the ground was moving – there were hundreds of thousands of them.” Mr Gregory said he put engine oil on his 15 pigs to protect them from the sun about once a month. “But now I oil them every week, because the mice have run out of food and they’re just eating anything, so they were climbing up on the pigs and chewing them,” he said. “The oil stops them eating the pigs because they don’t like the taste.” w/ photo