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Early this spring when it was still frosty, mice tried to invade my warm Wing in the barn. Having dogs, I didn't want to have poisoned carcasses littering the countryside, so I used an old Maine farm foolproof trick:
Take a 5 gal plastic pail (2 gal will work as well), put about 4 inches of water in it (so the mice/rats can't touch bottom) smear a ring of peanut butter around the inside about 2 inches down from the top, and then lean a board up against the pail so there's an access ramp for the critters.
The rodents will go up the ramp, lean over to grab peanut butter, lose their footing and fall into the water and drown. No muss, no fuss, no dangerous poisons. Check every couple of days and fling the corpses out in the garbage.
First day I had 4 mice; second 2, third day none. Keep up the routine until the body count drops to zero. You can use it in the winter, too by leaving out the water and spraying a little WD-40 around the sides. They won't drown, but will collapse from exhaustion trying to make it up the sides of the pail and freeze.
Early this spring when it was still frosty, mice tried to invade my warm Wing in the barn. Having dogs, I didn't want to have poisoned carcasses littering the countryside, so I used an old Maine farm foolproof trick:
Take a 5 gal plastic pail (2 gal will work as well), put about 4 inches of water in it (so the mice/rats can't touch bottom) smear a ring of peanut butter around the inside about 2 inches down from the top, and then lean a board up against the pail so there's an access ramp for the critters.
The rodents will go up the ramp, lean over to grab peanut butter, lose their footing and fall into the water and drown. No muss, no fuss, no dangerous poisons. Check every couple of days and fling the corpses out in the garbage.
First day I had 4 mice; second 2, third day none. Keep up the routine until the body count drops to zero. You can use it in the winter, too by leaving out the water and spraying a little WD-40 around the sides. They won't drown, but will collapse from exhaustion trying to make it up the sides of the pail and freeze.
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fenry wrote:
Here's the fancy version:
http://www.frugal-living-freedom.com/mouse-traps.html
fenry wrote:
Works terrifically as I've done that in the attic (no cats inside the 100+ year old stone house).
Here's the fancy version:
http://www.frugal-living-freedom.com/mouse-traps.html
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Cool, thanks. Wehave some feral cats in the area and they eat well in the Summer, lots of rabbits & snakes as well as field mice and the occasional rat, but imagine Winter is tougher. The disappear sometimes and new one's take their place, but I'm not sure if it's coyotes getting them or other reasons.
John
Cool, thanks.
Wehave some feral cats in the area and they eat well in the Summer, lots of rabbits & snakes as well as field mice and the occasional rat, but imagine Winter is tougher. The disappear sometimes and new one's take their place, but I'm not sure if it's coyotes getting them or other reasons.John
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