Turned the garage radio on over 20 years ago and have never seen any signs of rodents. Had to finally buy a new radio a couple of years ago, but it's totally worth it. My neighbors think I'm crazy, but they have mice. They refuse my theory. It's good to finally hear somebody else making it work.
DO NOT PLAY COUNTRY MUSIC! I tried it 4 days ago, and I set up a camera in the basement. To my surprise, the rats learned Line Dancing in just 1 day. There have been drunken fights. They made Saloon Doors out of my daughters play kitchen they 1/2 ate. (So they can throw each other through it). I hear RC Toy Ford Trucks in my basement all hours of the night. NO COUNTRY MUSIC!!
If you use peanut butter, mix in a chunk of cotton ball. it sticks to their tongue and they trip the trap nearly everytime. We had a problem with them getting into our tent in Iraq (Yes mice are everywhere lol) The cotton ball really made the trap more efficient.
We use the cotton from a Q-Tip and put bacon grease on the cotton. Make sure the cotton is entwined on the barb. They will try to pull it off the barb and SLAM!
What I do is fine tune the trap by bending the metal tab a little bit at a time until it is very sensitive to the slightest touch. And sometimes you have to secure them to something heavy, or they run off with the whole dam thing, having just their tail caught in it.
GREAT TIP: I use "peanut oil" from an eye dropper to bait all my traps. No ants eating all the bait and no bugs. In fact, I had traps that I haven't set out in over a year old and still caught mice with them with NO MORE PEANUT OIL BAIT APPLIED! They smell what's left of the oil ad BANG. Got 'em. I had the best results with the bucket traps I bought from RINNE traps. Again with just peanut oil. I was catching as many as 11 mice in one night. I also, put these traps outside because I don't want the mice inside. I get 'em when their on their way in. 4 bucket traps at the 4 corners of my house/garage/shed. Single TomCat traps underneath my vehicles. Everything with peanut oil. I only caught 2 mice in all of 2024. In 2023 when I started, I caught over 200 mice within the first two months. After thousands of dollars in damage to my farm vehicles and cars, I had had enough. Now the mice are a rare occurrence and I was infested with them.
@@pjet8042 Put it under a bucket with a small entrance hole and put a brick on the bucket. There are several ways of shielding the trap from skunks where mice can still get to it.
@@pjet8042 I've had that happen and they run away and shake off the traps. I find some traps in the middle of my lawn and others down the drive. I think I would rather smell skunk for a couple of days than shell out thousands in vehicle repairs. Just sayin'.
Except for the 2.4 Billion wild song birds killed by cats every year in just the U.S. alone. And they mostly kill for the fun of it, not for food, because even when cats are well fed, they still kill song birds. 😥
@@SweetStuffOnMonarchLaneBecause humans have pushed out the small predators bobcats, foxes, coyotes, etc. the ratio isn't as bad as it could be. Usually songbirds will get away unless there's a bird feeder, So I don't have a feeder anymore.
One of the big reasons not to use poison is that the dyeing mice and rats might be eaten by a bird of prey or other predator. In FL we have a problem with eagles and hawks being poisoned. Great advise on the radio. I had a racoon that moved in to my boat, on a boat lift, and she gave birth to six kits. I called animal control and a couple of private services and all refused to remove the family and told me to wait it out until the kits are are fully weaned! About 10 - 12 weeks. An old timer at my marina told me to leave a radio on 24 hours and that in about a week the mother will find a new home and move all the kits one-by-one. This worked like a charm, not sure my neighbors appreciated the country music station that I picked!
Well bullshit to the touchy feely people. I love animals but if that happened to me, well bye bye the lot and to hell with the greenies. I bet they would do something similar if it were their house.
Planted a small sweet corn patch in my garden one year. We live in the woods. Raccoons love corn. When the ears appeared, I ran an extension cord out to the garden and plugged a radio into it. I turned the radio on at sunset and turned it off the next morning. Raccoons are nocturnal. The night before I was going to harvest a really nice crop of completely untouched ears of corn, I neglected to turn the radio on. The next morning when I went out into the garden to harvest the corn, I was greeted by the sight of a completely torn-apart corn patch. Every single ear had been ripped off the stalks and chewed on. The little bastards didn't leave me one untouched ear for all my troubles. Radios work. Humans are undependable. Raccoons are patient and devious.
Yeah that's a good idea and all, but if they are so patient and devious? Then won't they figure it out that there is no one outside and creep through the yard to the place where the food is at? It was Just a thought I had? But it is a really good idea to have a radio going at night. That will probably keep just about everything else away too? I've heard and then saw raccoons climb up to a Deck post that was possibly 18-20 feet up from the ground and assault a small dog just to get to the dog food as I was riding my bike down the street before! I felt bad for the little dog but it ran off from the area where the food was and left the racoons to eat it's own food and I guess probably didn't get enough to eat that night? Poor little dog. I often thought that maybe I should visit the house during the day and let the person who owns the house and the dog what I had witnessed? But I think that I forgot about that next day until later on when I thought about it again. But it was a while ago when I remembered about it. The way to prevent the racoons from climbing up the deck post, is to mount slippery material like a metal wrap around the post's. That way they can't grip the wooden posts and get up on the deck? Or I've thought about adding some kind of wheeled gadget high enough up the posts to prevent them from being able to climb up? Similar to how you might keep squirrels from getting to a bird feeder? They can't grip the wooden posts? Racoons are relentless and viscous! And won't stop at getting what they want? And if your pets are out there when they smell food they will harm anything that gets in their way!
@@robertPharry777yeah wouldn’t be so bad if they ate on a few and ate it all but left the rest. Nope they have to be like that annoying person who squishes every chocolate in the box to see what is in them all. They just take a bite out everything and ruin it all.
I had a series of mice in a Detroit apartment ... I knew when I moved in, from old droppings in the cupboards and corners the previous tenant had not removed. No novice to mousetraps, I got them all caught in wood traps ... except one. Tripped every nite, bait gone every morning, no mouse. Then I realized rodents follow baseboards so I pulled a trunk out from the wall just wide enough for a trap. Same thing, trap tripped, bait gone, no mouse. From the crime scene, I figured the mouse was deliberately activating traps by sneaking in from the spring side - not the bait side - jumping back, and then robbing bait at leisure, so I set a second trap in the same corridor behind the trunk, against the wall, but this time, two inches away facing the back of the first. I heard the trap in the night, and almost instantly the second trap. Next morning, sure enough, both traps were tripped but the mouse was backwards in the second trap. Forensically, I'm guessing he jumped back right into the second trap. That was the last mouse of that apartment.
One year, I had a bad infestation. I tried everything and finally got rid of them. Well... I didn't, but an 8 foot black rat snake moved in downstairs and took care of it. Unfortunately, I found it, and despite being partially blind due to skin shed, it kindly wrapped itself around a broom stick, and I placed it outside. Then I plugged the whole that let it in. I actually appreciated the work it did and it's calm relaxed attitude. The only issue is my wifes refusal to EVER GO IN THE BASEMENT AGAIN!
I once lived in a manufactured house in the middle of a 40-acre field. I had so many mice, I thought they had set up their international headquarters in my walls. I would catch them in the evening as fast as I could empty the traps and reset them. One evening, I caught 11 mice before bedtime. My kid eventually caught a hog nose snake and brought it home in a bucket, thinking we had a new pet. I looked the snake over and said, "Let's let him live UNDER the house." Mr. Slink moved in, and the mice moved out.
My dad has used the radio method for years. It really works! He's also used it in his car when a mouse got in it just last week. He just left a door cracked open and turned up the radio while parked in his driveway, and the mouse was gone in no time. I guess they hate any kind of consistent noise or music. The best thing about the radio method is that there's no traps to buy. Or trapped mice to deal with.
I agree that PB is the best bait. I've been trapping mice in my old farm hours for 30 years. Before I put PB on the trigger, I jam a raisin into the bait holder. Sometimes they can slick the PB off w/o setting the trap off. They can't do that with the raisin. Great info! Thanks.
Had caught 25 rats/mice with mostly Victor traps baited with peanut butter, but there were 2 that wouldn’t bite. Regional supervisor of pest control company told me to bait the traps with beef jerky- caught the last 2 the first night!
That's a good tip. I tried a Victor electronic trap, it worked well but failed after a month or two, even with meticulous cleaning. Same with its replacement. I ordered an Owltra electronic trap after that. It works so much better, a real killing machine.
Rats purportedly like bacon,, and beef jerky, But I've tried it in most traps and caught nothing. Tootsie rolls, supposedly good for rats, didn't work as mouse bait either. I did discover that mice absolutely love pistachios and a piece of pistachio stuck to the peanut butter greatly increases your chances of catching mice. I haven't tried pistachio butter but I intend to.
Thank you so much!! Mice are very smart. I've tried lots of techniques, but not these. Will work on this. One thing that has worked for me in the past is I give them free food on traps without setting the trap. After they trust the surroundings, I set it with the same bait.
Thank you, those three methods are great. I also use the radio 24/7 and there has been no squirrels or chipmunks in the garage. It's good to know it works for rats and mice too. Great video
I'm going to try that and I live in CA so I'll put on a conservative station as they are probably liberals since I"m in CA Lol (not picking on either side just trying to be funny)
Had to help my mom with this chore growing up. She would save all the metal lids from cans, then go buy a package of fine steel wool dish pads and I would have to grab a hammer and nails and we went hunting holes and large cracks in the baseboards, in the cabinets, basement ceiling with flashlights in hand, etc. Mom had me plug the large cracks or holes with a bit of steel wool, then I would hammer the can lid over the hole. If it was a large crack, I sometimes had to bend the lid 90 degrees and then hammer it down. Took care of most of them.
I lived overseas 50 years ago. They had a 3 banger trap. At times we would be eating, and the trap would go off repeatedly. Your little idea of 2-3 in a row is quite valid. I would set multiple traps adjacent to each other since we have such effective video from other trap channels.
We had very large pots for plants, with the little drainage holes in the bottom, turned upside down in the garage. We didn't even intend to use those as mousetraps, they were just upside down for winter storage. But mice went in the hole and couldn't get back up to get out. This winter, we'll put food in the pots.
Yea for the bucket traps, had a mouse population explosion a couple years ago, set out four bucket traps, house crawl space, storage shed, workshop, and one by the burn pile. Caught 14 in one night (burn pile bucket) and over two hundred during the next 6 weeks! Now I get maybe two or three all year.
@@Jackie-tr6hwI toss them off my back porch, my yard is heavily wooded. Our local owl gets a free snack. (We don’t use poison). The mouse is gone before the day is out.
According to the TV show Nature, owls have incredible eyes. If they see a mouse lying there, they'll check it out. I'm not sure what an owl will think of 200 mice, though.
I have had decent results by using a 5gal bucket, whatever bait inside plus a 1/8 cup of cooking oil. Once they jump in and get oil on their feet, they have no traction, to jump up the inside of bucket to get out.
Chocolate candy bar works great in those traps also. Soften a small piece of chocolate in the microwave just enough to be able to push it into the bait trigger. Mice love chocolate. Once the chocolate hardens, it's harder to lick out of the trap, making them work more for it, therefore setting off the trap.
@@rockymntain When the chocolate solidifies it is harder to get out of the trap, making the mouse work harder for it's treat, then more likely to set the trap and catch the mouse.
I watched a RU-vid video we’re someone recommended hot glueing the bait on the trap. It drastically improved my catch rate. I rarely miss one. For bait I use bird seed with a mix of 3 different type of seeds and the classic wooden traps. I’ve tried about everything else but the above method is my go to. I’ll have to give the radio a shot in my shop.
We played a radio in the barn when i was a kid. Come to think of it, with grain barrels etc, we never really had a mouse problem. We just thought we were keeping the cows and pigs company!
Then why don't the ultra sound blasters work. Maybe they should have them play music at ultrasound levels! That way, I don't have to listen. So, who'll be the first to invent one?!
I live in the mountains and there is a constant invasion here. The ONLY thing that has given me relief is a cat and I've tried them ALL! I wasn't much of a fan of cats until now!
Under buildings***. I screw on multiple victor traps (with peanut butter on the trap mechanism) to a 2x4. I then slide the whole board under the building. It works great. Multiple mice at once and easy to take in and out in tight areas. I have at least 8 traps to a 2x4. 🙂 Ahhhhh, farm life.
Here's a tip for the spring load trap. If you take a small piece of wood (tooth picks, popsicle stick or other will work) Wedge the wood into the area to put bait. You can use pliers to crimp it carefully so it stays put. Place a small dab of peanut butter on the wood which will absorb all the oils from the PB and trigger the trap better when they try to knaw on it. I also found that I don't have to keep baiting the trap. Usually, One and done. Once a mouse has used the trap. Don't throw it out. But don't leave dead mice in it either. Toss them in outside garbage, just lift the strike bar, they fall right out and you never have to touch them. Use gloves or wash hands or both after touching used traps. Reset the trap. But now its a mouse magnet because it smells like other mice have eaten there. They are more likely to try to take the bait.
I got this from an old farmer about 20 years ago. Anywhere you dont want mice, use black pepper along the walls. At first, i tried this in my garage, workshop and crawlspace with traps. After a month of catching nothing with the traps, i just went with the black pepper. Still mouse free for 20 years and counting. Also have done this at various warehouses and macine shops that i have worked at over the years, no mice.
Hot pepper flakes- first started using it to stop squirrels from digging up tulip bulbs. It works for chipmunks and mice too (10+ yrs). Reapply after heavy rain. I buy the large container at Costco
I take and put a small pebble under the trap about where the trigger is. A lot of the times the mice don't even make it to the trigger and get hammered because the trap is unstable.
I've been playing the stereo in my shop for 20 plus years 24/7 & I've never had a mouse problem! Although I leave it on to keep thieves away...works for that too!
Stuff rags in plastic water bottles, soak the rags with ammonia, carefully slice or poke holes in water bottles, place water bottles around the walls on the inside or outside. Ammonia will deter animals away from the structure. Remember to reapply ammonia when it dries up. I’ve had the same water bottles for around a decade or so. Ammonia is dirt cheap and it works.
Mouse piss ferments into ammonia, and their own pee and poop doesn't deter them in the slightest. They'll crap all around, next to and sometimes even inside their nesting area.
I use the bucket trap. Made 6 of them for the campers up north. Wow! Even one week will get 10 on up in one. I don’t use any ramps, but it still works. 👍👍
I have only two things to add. The first and it's just a personal thing and that is I, when setting s Victor - type trap, I smear a dab of peanut butter on a small piece of bread and then put the bread on the trap. Secondly, I heard or read somewhere that the wooden spring - type mousetrap was patented ( I assume by Victor ), in 1906. This is commendable for an invention that old to still be largely unsurpassed in popularity and it's design about 95% unchanged in over 100 years.
I clicked on this because I’m interested in the content, but within the first few seconds I couldn’t pay attention to what was being said because I was so amazed at how organized your workshop was!😂Your secret please!😊
I live off grid . 1 st year to have a garden. The property came with 6 ...4x4 raised beds. So yep made yse of them. Well as soon as the cucumbers broke 2 inches they were eaten to the ground. So I thought since a keep a string of solar lights around the front end of my vehicle keeps the mice out maybe it'll work for the garden. So I went to Dallor General bought a few of the $1 ground solar lights puts around in the boxes. The cucumbers grew back. I said great it worked. So when they had the BOGOsale. Buy one get one free. I bought more put 5 in each raised bed and in my sweet potatoes too. 20 ft bed in ground about 2 ft high. It worked. The solar lights in Garden boxes stopped the mice and rats. I also too had a small snake in my storage building all winter. Still in there now. See no mice or rats living or walking in there. But when I first arrived here. The property was abandoned for 15 years. Put out 3 buckets. Cleaned out the big ones in about 3 months. It works.
I live in Michigan and lived in the upper peninsula. This is called a UP mouse trap here. Work’s for chipmunks too. No peanut butter or can needed. Fill bucket 1/2 full with water, make the ramp, and toss in two handfuls of shelled sunflower seeds. The seeds will float and disperse and give the impression that the bucket is half full of seeds. They jump in. Good night Irene! I have caught 3 or 4 in a 24 hr period. I toss the whole bucket out away from the house. And start over if needed.
I’ve used this bucket method for years with one exception,I use RV anti-freeze instead of water! It doesn’t freeze & won’t kill pets if they drink some. Works great! I like your radio idea as well.
@@tellmemoreplease9231 I will explain a little more about RV antifreeze. RV is short for recreational vehicle,(campers,motor homes & or cabins) not used during freezing temperatures where pipes could freeze & burst! This is a non-toxic antifreeze you pump into your plumbing pipes,toilets,holding tanks & sink traps when not in use so they don’t freeze then drained before using when warmer weather returns. (You can not use automotive antifreeze because it is toxic & you can never drain every drop from the system)! When using RV antifreeze & you want to again fill the system with fresh water the small amount of RV antifreeze remaining after draining is not supposed to harm you. As an extra measure you should flush any drinking water supply with fresh water before refilling it for drinking. Be safe! -Don’t ever use automotive antifreeze anywhere except in the radiator of your car or truck.-
> tellmemoreplease I asked the artificial intelligence... RV Antifreeze vs. Automobile Antifreeze RV antifreeze and automobile antifreeze serve similar purposes but have key differences. Here’s a comparison: Composition RV Antifreeze: Typically made from propylene glycol or ethanol. Generally non-toxic and safe for potable water systems. Automobile Antifreeze: Usually contains ethylene glycol or propylene glycol. Ethylene glycol is toxic and not safe for drinking water. Usage RV Antifreeze: Specifically designed for winterizing RVs. Protects plumbing, water systems, and other components from freezing. Automobile Antifreeze: Used in vehicle cooling systems. Prevents engine overheating and freezing in cold temperatures. Color RV Antifreeze: Often available in bright colors like pink or blue for easy identification. Automobile Antifreeze: Can be green, orange, or pink, depending on the formulation. Temperature Range RV Antifreeze: Typically effective down to -50°F (-45°C) or lower, depending on the product. Automobile Antifreeze: Designed to protect engines in a range of -34°F (-37°C) to 265°F (129°C) with proper coolant-to-water ratios. Summary Safety: RV antifreeze is non-toxic, while automobile antifreeze can be toxic. Applications: RV antifreeze is for plumbing systems; automobile antifreeze is for engine cooling. Always choose the appropriate antifreeze for your specific needs to ensure safety and functionality.
I've tried all of those and they're great. Right now I'm using what looks like a kness multi catch mouse trap. It's a small galvanized steel box about 7 inches wide, 9 inches long, and 5 inches high. I have it set on the floor tight against the wall, with the tunnel running parallel to the wall. No bait needed and it will catch entire families of mice.
I prefer to use what the mice are used to eating - bread. I take a 1/2" ball of bread, dampen it enough to soften it and put it around and into the pan of a snap-trap as you mentioned. (NOT those stupid yellow plastic pans!). I set them out in run ways (floor / wall locations) as you mentioned. The damp bread dries in an hour or so and the varmints try to gnaw it off the pan that night. SNAP! On counter or table tops I make a dead end catch area from the wall outward and with crumbs leading into it. The narrow sides of the tight fitting dead end are sprinkled with crumbs and that leads them to the facing-inward trap. They are fascinated with the lump of bread on the pan and start going for it and then SNAP! We live in the country and had dogs and horses with a corresponding, long standing, rat problem from the horses spilled feed. The area had a plastic 55 gallon drum, with lid, for dog food but the horse food was stored in a large metal bin with a metal top . The dog food drum was freshly emptied but still smelled strongly of the dry dog food. The rats got to the top edge of the heavy plastic drum and gnawed a hole through it. The first rat would stop with it's head just inside the hole and the next rat behind, in it's excitement, would push the first one to get in, and so on and so on. 13 rats in one night just waiting for me the next morning. Cleaned them all out in one night after years of onesies and twosies with just rat traps.
I used to have pet rabbits in an outdoor kennel. I would bait the same traps with peanut butter and put them in a one quart canning jar. I'd line the jar up along the wall and hold it in place with a brick. Bunnies couldn't get into the jar or move it. Worked like a charm.
Thank you for posting up this information. I have been fighting with mice in my garage, making a home in my driver's door, etc. Laid traps out and caught lots. Then stumbled upon your channel and turned on the radio. It has been a month, I have had one trap tripped with nothing caught, but absolutely no other signs of mice. I have cameras and they haven't seen anything either!
A few drops of super hot hot sauce in a spray bottle of water sprayed at all the possible entrances to my house once a year keep them out for me. I’d go with a tablespoon or two of hot sauce for a 4 gallon backpack sprayer if you’ve got a lot of buildings to spray. Works like a charm. Look for the hot sauces over a million scoville units.
I used to work for a pest control company so I learned a lot about mice/rats. One thing I would add, is wash your hands good and if you have them, wear disposable gloves while setting out poison or traps. Mice/rats can smell us, and some smart ones will avoid traps/poison if it has our scent on it. So the gloves and washing your hands minimizes or eliminates your scent. Also always use steel wool for filling in cracks or holes. They can't chew through it. Also they don't like peppermint oil. It messes with their sense of smell and they don't like that. It makes them nervous as they can't detect stuff. You can take a syringe and inject peppermint oil through walls if you need to. Also cotton balls soaked in ammonia in a jar, and then throw the cotton balls all over an attic, will run out cats, mice, rats, squirrels, and racoons. The ammonia will actually burn their nose slightly and mess with their sense of smell and none of them like that. If you don't like the idea of ammonia, you can use peppermint oil, but the ammonia has the added effect of making their nostrils burn and their eyes to really encourage them to leave. It can do the same to you as well so make sure you toss them far away to start and stay near the attic opening as you work your way closer towards yourself.
steel wool turns to rust powder and stains the wood and cement. icut the top and bottom off beer cans and 'wrap' the aluminum sheets around the garagedoor molding at bottom . cut it in strips and run across the top of the rubber seal. paint it black or whatever and you cant even see it! mice cant chew it.
I like that one! That was the funniest comment about the bucket trap" Go ahead and Jump" Jump! I haven't heard that song in a long time. That's gonna stick. And now I am going to have that song in my head for the rest of the day now? Thanks for the comments. And have a blessed day and God bless you guys and your family.
I saw this years ago and it works great just requires patience to prep. With the wood snap trap - before applying peanut butter - use thin strong thread or string and thread through the horizontal tube hole where bait goes - 2-3 rounds of thread/string for strength and placement of peanut butter - knot with square knot - cut ends short - mash peanut butter into knot/string! No stealing the bait without tugging - snap and done!!! Side note: saw a picture of old abandoned auto mechanic garage with wood plaque sign on wall stating: "For Complaint Department - push button" with arrow pointing to button. The button/knob is mounted on a ready-to-go snap trap!! I got a good chuckle out of that!!!!
I use the black plastic snap traps. They work much better than the wood snap traps. They are cheap, very easy to set. I almost never find the peanut butter missing. I had one trap out with peanut butter and about 6 months later it caught a mouse. Thank you for video!
I built my garage 28 years ago and my radio has been on continuously , except for power failures. My neighbours have a problem with mice and rats on their property and yet I have never had a problem. I truly believe that leaving the radio on is the reason why. I did a little thank you on my channel awhile ago to Sony for a quality product and companion
@@ibosquez5238 The speaker(s) are just putting out audio frequencies of sound waves. I don’t see how any radio frequency electromagnetic waves from the detector and/or amplifier would be strong/leaking enough to have any effect. A radio is only a receiver, not a transmitter.
Well well well, that explains the missing 10mm. I use the victor traps but I take off the trap trigger for the bait. I screw in two “L” shaped small screws. With the short legs facing away from the spring. I place a peanut under the two “L” short legs with the killbar lever under the peanut. They remove the nut or chew it enough and it gets them every time.
I’ve set peanut butter baited traps all over our hundred year old house, with moderate success. The cat is better at getting them than the traps. Glad to have her help!
I put peanut butter in the trap, but will then jam a sunflower seed into the small hole on the bait trigger. The mice are attracted the PB, followed by one little tug on the sunflower seed, and . . . WHAM!
You'll catch many more mice in the bucket trap if you lower the can so it is about 2" below the top of the bucket, I had mine made like yours is and watched many mice dive to the rim of the bucket and hop out when the can started to spin.
brother so surprized RU-vid didn't flag you of the radio music. Good job. I try the bucket trap but I have it outside, buried about 3/4 deep in the ground. Inside the bucket, I fill water to the inside wire: on top of the water? I place peanut shells!! You know? alot of them! So the smell goes out but once they step on the shells, they go headfirst into the water. Once in the water, they typically last less than an hour.. Thanks for the great vid. Good to know someone else really hates these vermin.
I use Victors in the house and a bucket trap in the barn. That bucket trap has a little diving board at the top of the ramp, held level with a magnet underneath. The magnet is spaced to hold the weight of the mouse until he gets far enough out on the board. It catches 3 to 7 mice each week. I also spray peppermint oil (expensive, but lasts a long time), and that absolutely keeps them away, but doesn't harm them. I use it in the engine bay, cab, and other places on my excavator, tractor, dump truck, and pickup. Anything with wires. You never have to run the traps to check for dead mice, and an 8 ounce bottle has lasted me 3 years.
I also put used peppermint teabags (supposed to smell stronger after infusion) along the skirting boards where I knew they were running, it didn't work. In fact they were knocking them over where I placed them upright!
Try dr bronners peppermint soap- diluted in water/bottle- I still add peppermint, cedar, lemon, clove oil to the bottle too~ also vinegar in the bottle! Spray on my tires and under hood of our RV.
Mice don't like mint. I just planted some mint behind the barn. It will spread like a weed ❤and slow them down. Then I plan to put some mint clippings in the corners of the barn. Bonus, I won't have to trim behind the barn and it smells great when I mow.
Little live trap about 3“ x 3“ x 1‘ long. I have used this type of trap with no bait successfully for many years can reuse the same trap over and over and over again you can use bait if you like or use it without bait by placing strategically as you mentioned, you have a live mouse to dispose of, but it works extremely well!
I use the bucket trick.i don't put peanut butter on the stick.and instead of water i use windshield washer fluid. It won't freeze in cold weather and they don't stink if you can't check it every day.
If you have a winterized bucket trap that has the slightest possibility of pets or domestic animals getting access to it, replace the antifreeze with salt.
I started using a bucket trap in my barn some years ago, but I also have cats around. What to put in the water to keep it from freezing, but won't kill the cats? Wait for it . . . rock salt. Dirt cheap, dissolve plenty of it in by stirring it well. The freeze point of course depends on how much salt is dissolved.
Nice, I didn’t realize the music trick. I’ve been using the basic traps as well and I squish Reese’s peanut butter cup into it. Haven’t had a single mouse successfully get it out of the trap. The reason I stopped using the poison is because I didn’t want any owls to accidentally eat one of the dead mice if it went outside.
Thanks, Terry. You have a great sense of humor! I have not tried the bucket method. Always the traps that you have shown, sometimes I will use a little piece of chocolate with a tiny smear of peanut butter, but not much, or the chocolate will come out to easy because of the oil in the peanut butter. Sometimes, I will also use a tiny piece of marshmallow, with a smear of peanut butter. This is seasonal for mice or when I see their little turds! Thanks for sharing your video!!!
I have used a radio in my workshop/barn for several years--keeps racoons and larger rodents away but has no effect on the mice. I have watched them run along the shelf right behind the radio several times. If you happen to have racoons in your attic, the radio works well, also a light shining up there at night works.
The wood traps all have a big problem. The trigger is way too stiff. if you take the part where you put bait, at the other end where the bar goes, bend that over some and set it, if it just barely stays, that's where it works best. I have also used peanutbutter, works super well. Amazon sells a lid for a 5 gal bucket that works a lot like yours does. I like the can on a wire you did. The radio is so funny, who thought that would work? Love it.
I love your bucket trap, such a fantastic idea. And an added benefit for some who are squeamish about dealing with traditional traps is that disposal seems pretty simple... Just pour into the toilet!
I use Victor Electric Smart traps. Wifi connected, zaps them mousies first time! Instant death, no splattered skulls,, blood, or popped eyeballs. Just open the trap and dump in the trash. Phone app notifies you of a kill and to re-set the trap.(Like AOL "You've Got Mail" - Dingggg! "You've Got A Dead Mouse!") Runs on AA batteries. They work great and they offer a rat trap too!
I like your multiple-traps-in-a-row idea. It would prevent this maxim from coming true: The early bird gets the worm but the second mouse gets the cheese.
I agree with your first trap. I tweak the copper piece for bait to squeeze in half a peanut tightly and then smear peanut butter to get them there. But they have to work on the peanut. I’ve reset trap with 70 % of peanut gone and still caught one. I also screw trap to piece of wood in case they are not dead. I’ve had to look for a trap. Glad for tip on bait on the arm of trap. Good job.
great video. oddly enough it popped up on my page after i had texted this morning with my son in idaho about some rodent dropping he found under the hood while checking his oil. i told him to soak some cotton balls with peppermint oil and leave them under the hood.
It's not odd! Your text went through Google that sells your text to 3rd parties that you visit online. I found this fact out after texting my doctor for possible bladder infection test and within 4 hours Amazon sent notice to my phone, "why wait Amazon health can see you right now for bladder infection". We all are mere data in the big rat trap of ai
The Victor trap that you showed is great. The new ones they make have a plastic trigger and it is nowhere near as good. It needs to be modified to get it to stay set. I've had them go off on their own within a few seconds of setting them. I've been on the prowl for the metal trigger traps but no luck. Menthol is a mouse deterrent. I use jars of Vicks Vaporub in my shed when I store my motorcycle for the winter. I drill a few holes in the lids and place one jar on the engine between the cyliders, one on the seat under the cover, and one on the front of the engine next to the oil filter. No chewed seats, wires, or nests between the cylinders or in the air filter housing. I used to put them inside the soft saddlebags too but the new bike has hard bags. When spring comes I spread the left over vaporub on the garden fence with a small paint brush. No mice and cats and rabbits aren't to happy with it either. It gets rid of toe nail fungus if you suffer from that as well.
Thank you for this! I've done the bucket with water and spinning can covered in p.b. and bird seed....that worked, caught two. Figured there had to be more than two, put out a couple of snap traps with p.b., have not caught any in several weeks, ....but will put new p.b. on the way you did and wait and see. No more have been caught in the bucket as well...maybe I've been fortunate that I'm not seeing/catching more. I won't take chances with the cold weather that has started....I'm putting a radio on in the workshop and leaving it on.
I Need to try the can and bucket technique as well. Extra tip for rats and those flip traps…sometimes they can slip the traps when setting it off because the trap will pop up/jump from the energy inertia. So in my attic I use a screw to hold the trap firm to the floor and now it’s a 100% success rate. I’ve had rats drag off the traps under the floor as they crawl away to die, costing me the expense of another trap and having to smell them after death as well… yuk…so the screw is very effective.
An additional tip for spring type traps is to reduce the metal protrusion on the trigger plate the bar rests under. Use a pair of needle nose pliers and reduce the protrusion a bit so the bar is barely able to hold on. The spring trap is now super sensitive to any movement of the trigger plate.
It takes care, and helps to be nearsighted, but I just set it so the catch is precisely on the top of the round wire lever, with essentially no overhang where the wire curves down away from the catch. Hair triggered. Have occasionally had one go off several seconds after I set it down. Have thought about your approach, but not yet tried it.
@@For_What_It-s_Worth The finer the trigger the more likelihood of success. I have had a few sore fingers when it goes off prematurely , but when it is that fine the catch rate is almost 100%.
Great advice on the snap traps. The snap traps are the best, IMO. BUT, they have a drawback: They are prone to recoil force and can flip over and miss the mouse. It's more prevalent with the larger rat versions. I solved that problem by a single screw through the trap into a piece of plywood about 6" sq for the mouser and 12"x 8" for the ratter. That way they stay flat and transmit all the force into the bail. Use Adam's peanut butter - or another brand that has no sugar in it. While these pests love the sugar, it will attract ants and other pests you dont want. A half tsp of Skippy will be gone in an hour when the ants find it. Then they'll nest nearby. Skip the Skippy. You shouldn't feed it to your kids either. Itsjust Cool Whip with a few peanuts and sugar ground up in it. I have very good results from the electric traps from Victor as well. Never place traps that can be accessed by your cat, your neighbor's cat, or garden birds. It's just not the right thing to do.
Great tips. Radio on is a new one for me. The other two I use as well. Additional I have found that if I slightly char (not much) the victory traps with a blow torch, then handle them with gloves on while baiting and moving them - this significantly increases my catch rate. I believe it hides any human sent.
I have done all of the ways you mentioned. Except leaving a radio on but that makes so much sense. I have used many many glue boards and honestly, I like them BUT (you knew there had to be a “but”) I have found many times that if the mouse is not on the glue board securely and let’s say a leg or even foot is only on the board … this is gross … but they will chew off that extremity that’s stuck to free themselves. I couldn’t believe it so I asked a pest control tech and they confirmed that mice will chew off their own leg(s) feet to get free. The ol bucket trick made me laugh. My dad used to use that in our cabin, many many many years ago. People used to laugh at him but he was successful every single time!!! He made his the exact same way you did yours!!! TY for that awesome memory!!! I also hate mice and rats. They’re just filthy disrespectful creatures. lol! Thank you for your video!! Happy catching!
MAINE..Field Mice. A 5 gallon bucket w/ water. A ramp from the ground to the lid rim of the bucket. Sun flower seeds trail leading up to etc . Controls dozens of mice at a time on a daily basis. It works. Save alot of damage..
An old time exterminator recommended using marshmallow squeezed to the Victor bate tube. Has worked better for me than peanut butter. (They can like the PB off with their tiny tongues). Thanks for the great ideas !
The best trap bait for mice and rats is to hot glue an almond to the trigger! They will not lick it off plus it adds weight to the trigger and makes it much easier for them to throw. I personally rough up the bottom of the almond so the glue holds better and i scrape a bit on the top. It makes it easier for them to smell it plus it looks like mice have already been chewing on it. Tootsie rolls also make good bait if you can keep it on the trigger. Try using a thin piece of wire and tying it to the trigger.
A building can be mouse proofed. I did it with 3 sheds and for years never had a mouse in any of them. You can mouse proof a pole barn as you build it but an existing pole barn takes a lot of work to mouse proof. Usually people aren't thinking about mouse proofing when building anything.
