Rat and mouse traps

[sixdogs]

Very good information, do you know it it is taken up by the fruit trees? That would be a downside.

I can't imagine hurting trees if it won't hurt honeybees. Check the label directions for Acelypryn granules. The label tells you everything you need to know including application, upsides and downside.

We found, by accident, that getting rid of food sources and hiding places has helped dramatically with mice and other vermin. I put fresh gravel around the pole barns and blocked as much access as possible. Eliminated as much food as I could. Normally, I catch a fair number of mice in the fall but after a year of cleaning up have only caught around 10. There were times 20 years ago when I caught a couple hundred. I've done threads on it with a picture of four mice in traps just inches apart. They aren't that smart. Eat, hide and reproduce.

 

[5030]

The magpies here watch me empty the traps and come down to clean up the mice I throw out. They love them.

...and my wife thinks they are 'cute'....

 

[Alien]

No mice for about a week now and no signs. Cross fingers I got them all. Funny, my step son and grand-daughter have both bought the electronic traps now. They were impressed.

 

[goeduck]

Oh they will be BAAAACK. But good job, be diligent. !

 

[sixdogs]

I can't imagine hurting trees if it won't hurt honeybees. Check the label directions for Acelypryn granules. The label tells you everything you need to know including application, upsides and downside.

We found, by accident, that getting rid of food sources and hiding places has helped dramatically with mice and other vermin. I put fresh gravel around the pole barns and blocked as much access as possible. Eliminated as much food as I could. Normally, I catch a fair number of mice in the fall but after a year of cleaning up have only caught around 10. There were times 20 years ago when I caught a couple hundred. I've done threads on it with a picture of four mice in traps just inches apart. They aren't that smart. Eat, hide and reproduce.

Here's another four mice in traps just inches apart. I'm more of. trap guy than a bucket trap guy so I just pile them together, put Jiffy PB on and show up the next AM to empty. No catch and release here.

And, just set a bunch of traps with a hair trigger and they can['t wait to try the bait.

 

[Alien]

Good catch.
Most mornings I sit on my front porch and have a cuppa. My chinese crested pup seemed to sniff around one area near the house pressure pump each day. I thought maybe she was smelling mice so I set a trap there. Sure enough I got a mouse night before last and 2 last night. They are still around.
So, mouse tally is now 28 and only 1 rat that I got in my tractor barn. Better keep baiting traps I guess. Magpies are well fed anyway.

 

[rangerfredbob]

I've caught about that many lately, average of one a day for about a month, sometimes 2, sometimes 0, sometimes 4... been a few days since I've gotten any, not that I'm sad, but then again they might be catching on, I saw a mouse or vole 20' away from the shed I've been trapping them in...

 

[Alien]

Update.
Few more mice and a couple of rats later.
I found that sometimes the bait was disappearing yet no animal. I worked out that the mice were coming in the end holes in the trap instead of the main entrance thus avoiding the shock bars. I modified the trap and 100% catch success now. My wife wants to get two more traps as she is a bit tense about having mice and rats around any time.
Pic shows the modification I did to the trap.

 

[goeduck]

I really like the bucket traps. Check them once a week to dispose of the mice and refresh the PB about once a month. Ramp is on the bottom for those that want to spin the bottle and go for a swim.

 

[Fuddy1952]

We got a new trap.