| Mice in Storage Shed [message #263652] |
Tue, 07 October 2014 01:57  |
Bruce Hart
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Registered: October 2011
Location: La Grange, Wyoming
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I have been setting up traps for mice in the GMC's storage shed for the last two weeks.
The first week I tried the the five gallon bucket with the rotating bottle.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D47P1TgZ7ZE
The mice were eating the peanut butter but were not captured.
I than hooked up a board that would pivot and drop the mouse into the bucket.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64zy03Z2rHE
I had caught one mouse this way. Left the mouse in the bucket to dispose of later
but I came back the mouse was gone. Was it able to climb the side of the bucket
to get out. I don't know. I did not put any water in the bucket so that could explain
why the mouse was able to get out.
As of a week ago Monday I started to use the old snap type mouse trap, four with peanut
butter and two with cotton. After a week I had killed 18 mice with the snap
traps and found four dead mice from poison that had been put out a month ago.
The cotton traps seemed to work far better than the peanut butter as mice were able to
sometimes eat the peanut butter without springing the traps.
I would like to thank the member who had suggested the use of nesting material in the traps
in an earlier post.
Bruce Hart
1976 Palm Beach
1977 28' Kingsley
La Grange, Wyoming
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