| Re: [GMCnet] Mice in Storage Shed [message #263674 is a reply to message #263663] |
Tue, 07 October 2014 07:44   |
Bruce Hart
Messages: 1500
Registered: October 2011
Location: La Grange, Wyoming
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Steve,
My storage shed use to be a grain storage shed 50' x 336'. It has seen
it's better days and there are literally a hundred entry points or more.
But I keep the Motor Home out of the weather.
On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 5:00 AM, Steve Southworth
wrote:
> That may have been me.
>
> Another thing I do is make enhanced trigger mouse traps.
>
>
> http://www.gmcmhphotos.com/photos/miscellaneous-pictures/p26891-enhanced-trigger-mouse.html
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> These traps don't need bait. Just put them near a runway like against the
> wall or next to a bait block.
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> For the five gallon traps to work they need liquid. Water if you don't
> freeze. Antifreeze if you do. If you have any animals you care about use
> RV
> antifreeze. Auto anitfreeze will kill any animal that drinks it and the
> sweet taste and smell attracts them. It is a painful death.
>
> Now you are catching them in your shed. The next step is to get them
> before they get in.
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> http://www.gmcmhphotos.com/photos/miscellaneous-pictures/p22783-mouse-quot-feeders-quot.html
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> The 7" length on the "T" does allow racoons and possums to get at the
> bait. I let them. If you don't want them to get the bait use 10" for the
> length of the "T" sections rather than 7".
>
> I place these around the buildings where I think the mice get in. At
> least one on each side and I place one on each side of the doors to my barn.
>
> My next step, not instituted yet, is an additional ring of feeders around
> the house and barn. About 25' or so out.
>
> The feeders need to be staked to the ground or otherwise secured or the
> racoons will drag them off trying to get the bait blocks out.
> --
> Steve Southworth
> 1974 Glacier TZE064V100150 (for workin on)
> 1975 Transmode TZE365V100394 (parts & spares)
> Palmyra WI
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Bruce Hart
1976 Palm Beach
Milliken, Co
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