Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: dankay123 on October 22, 2012, 13:38
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i have a mouse in my shed. the little bas***d has eaten my new packets of pumkin seeds for next year. i just been to get traps and im gunning for him tonight. whats the best bait to put on the trap. he seems quite partial to pumpkin seeds. hope it it is a mouse and not a long tail lol
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I usually put a bit of bread on.
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bread and butter (and keep your seeds in a tin :))
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Peanut butter or chocolate spread. :)
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tiny bit of flapjack works in my greenhouse.
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Bread soaked in vodka. At least he'll have a happy ending and won't be able to run away.
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peanut butter or philly cheese spread
Put trap near wall or some thing so mouse eats sideways to the snapping action - they seem to escape if they can come at bait from end on direction but not if side on. Hope that makes sense !!!!
R
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Peanut butter gets them every time here.
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A square of chocolate melted on to the bait plate . Once it has hardened it does not come off quickly or easily....................................SNAP !!!
And you get to eat the rest of the bar ! :)
Ps wire the trap to something if you think it may be a BIG mouse or the trap will go AWOL.
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ok i set 6 traps using baited with a kit kat chunky peanut butter flavour and topped it with crunchy peanut butter. i set them on my workbench and 2 under it on the floor. hopefully will have him tomorrow
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............... hopefully will have him tomorrow
Maybe 'him' and a few of his offspring. :D
I have a wood shed which seems to attract mice.
Peanut butter in the traps provides enough meat for a good pot of soup every week. ;)
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............... hopefully will have him tomorrow
Maybe 'him' and a few of his offspring. :D
I have a wood shed which seems to attract mice.
Peanut butter in the traps provides enough meat for a good pot of soup every week. ;)
Mouse soup............?
It'll make a change from mushroom. :lol:
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Or you could make 'em into a musical instrument - a 'mouse organ'.
One of my sisters did that (not sure which sister but reckon it was our Monica)
I'll get me coat.
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:D :D
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I have done a study of mouse control in sheds and garages over the years.
Snap traps are OK and the baiting advice here is fine.
Avoid the cheap easy set plastic traps. These sometimes do not kill instantly or catch by a leg and the mouse plus trap will disappear under whatever you have piled up. You hear their struggle and have to finish them off after digging them out. Often these traps are set off with no dead mouse. One presumes that a mouse has escaped, maybe injured to die a lingering death. At least with traditional spring traps it is death or nothing.
The multi live catch traps are efficient and I have caught up to 5 mice at once. The trap I have has a lid that opens but it is difficult to tip the mice out into a bag to be released a long way away. I ended up taking the whole trap in a carrier bag. Even then there was a hidy hole in the trap and usually a mouse refused to leave until poked with a stick.
You can catch a lot of mice with traps but you will never get the last one and more mice keep coming.
Poison is the most efficient control. I would not use the loose poison because I have a labrador that will eat anything. The plastic boxes with solid bait are best. Either they are one-use or you can refill with blocks. I keep them perminently on shelves in sheds and garage and also one in my loft. Any visiting mouse looking for food will have nibble and go away to die.
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Um. Badly set or cheaply made traps are indeed not good when they doom a mouse that is mortally wounded rather than snapped outright to a "...lingering death..." Whereas poison of course mereley dooms every mouse that it reaches to, er, a lingering death!
Probably heartless of me but I am afraid I prefer good quality snap traps, properly set and frequently monitored, as at least I can dispose of the cadaver efficiently instead of setting up poisoned beasties to form nice fragrant virus-reservoir piles in those inaccessible beauty spots....
Oh, OK, I admit it then - in fact I am just too tight to repeatedly buy poison when I can still keep using the shoeboxfull of 'little nippers' inherited from my parents!
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Um. Badly set or cheaply made traps are indeed not good when they doom a mouse that is mortally wounded rather than snapped outright to a "...lingering death..." Whereas poison of course mereley dooms every mouse that it reaches to, er, a lingering death!
Probably heartless of me but I am afraid I prefer good quality snap traps, properly set and frequently monitored, as at least I can dispose of the cadaver efficiently instead of setting up poisoned beasties to form nice fragrant virus-reservoir piles in those inaccessible beauty spots....
Oh, OK, I admit it then - in fact I am just too tight to repeatedly buy poison when I can still keep using the shoeboxfull of 'little nippers' inherited from my parents!
Got to agree that poison is not a pleasant or fast death but it suits many as out of sight is out of mind !
Like you i will stick with the `Little Nippers' and mainly instant suffering free mousey deaths.
If people had to sit and watch the real time effect on poisoned rodents from taking the bait until they finally die they would likely do the same .
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Agree that peanut butter or chocolate spread works well.
Try the small live traps that are available, find they work well, just let the mouse go some distance away, like some elses garden 3 or 4 doors away. :ohmy: :ohmy:
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Agree that peanut butter or chocolate spread works well.
Try the small live traps that are available, find they work well, just let the mouse go some distance away, like some elses garden 3 or 4 doors away. :ohmy: :ohmy:
Don't the little beggars find their way back again?
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checked them tonight again and still nothing. just opened shed looked and locked it up again. someone in work said they prefer the bait stale so try again tomorrow. the little nipper traps are the best i could find. very light trigger. it only has to breathe near it and its SNAP
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checked them tonight again and still nothing. just opened shed looked and locked it up again. someone in work said they prefer the bait stale so try again tomorrow. the little nipper traps are the best i could find. very light trigger. it only has to breathe near it and its SNAP
Don't keep looking as they are shy ;)
and also mainly are active at night anyway if ours have been anyhting to go by
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one of my neighbours on the lotty throws the dead ones in the field for the red kites to eat
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checked them tonight again and still nothing. just opened shed looked and locked it up again. someone in work said they prefer the bait stale so try again tomorrow. the little nipper traps are the best i could find. very light trigger. it only has to breathe near it and its SNAP
Sometimes even the Nippers need a tweak such as taking the burr off the top of the setting rod with a bit of emery paper.
A few 'free offerings' of the same bait sprinkled near the trap often makes the meeces less cautious. ;)
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I remember using poison when we had mice in the house, it got them in the end but the smell of decomposing mice in the bathroom was not pleasent!!!!
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Pumpkin Seeds! This mouse has expensive taste, try Almas Caviar and a bottle of Vintage Dom Pérignon.
Failing that get a cat!
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got the first mouse today. peanut butter. took the trap in the middle of the shed floor and not the traps i had hid against walls etc.he was really fat. shall i leave the traps down to see if there is any more or not?
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Oh yes, leave the traps down. Where there is one mouse there will be more.
Not surprised it was a fat one eating all your pumpkin seeds :lol:
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Yes, leave the traps down.
By the time you see one mouse, he probably has a few sisters/brothers & cousins knocking about.
If a female mouse gets in, it's amazing how quickly they take over.
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Just a comment on the use of poisons. My daughters next door neighbour decided to put poison down when he had a problem with rats and mice under his rabbit hutch. He put the poison bait under his decking. Unfortunately,my daughters cat managed to get to the bait and ate some.I have never seen an animal die in such agony.It was only after 2 days that we realised how ill the cat was and took him to be put to sleep. I will only use live traps and remove the little beggars as far away as possible.
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2 more mice tonight so re baited and see what tomorrow brings