Mouse control ???????
Melting Slicks
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From: Muskogee OK
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I have several friends that own islands they close for the winter. They all use the same system and it works great and doesn't need maintanance.
You'd have to google it for pictures but you need..
1 5 gallon bucket
2 gallons of RV antifreeze (rad anti OK if there is NO way a cat/dog etc can access it)
1 board, about 4" wide and 24"-35" long
1 coat hanger
1 empty small water bottle (personal size, with cap)
2 table spoons peanut butter.
You drill a hole in the bottom and the cap of the water bottle just a bit bigger than the coat hanger wire. Use the coat hanger wire to make an axle for the bottle so it spins freely and bend the wire to clip on the top lip of the bucket. Place your board like a ramp from the ground to the edge of the bucket where one end of the coat hanger is sitting. Slide the water bottle so it is about 1" from the end of this 'ramp' and cover the center of the bottle with a band of peanut butter. Put the RV antifreeze in the bucket.
They smell the peanut butter, climb the ramp, try to crawl out on the water bottle, it spins and they drop in and drown. Since it's antifreeze, it stays fluid and since it is also a preserative, they don't stink and rot.
The guys with the islands will have 20 or 30 in the trap by the end of winter and no nesting or damage in the cottage.
You'd have to google it for pictures but you need..
1 5 gallon bucket
2 gallons of RV antifreeze (rad anti OK if there is NO way a cat/dog etc can access it)
1 board, about 4" wide and 24"-35" long
1 coat hanger
1 empty small water bottle (personal size, with cap)
2 table spoons peanut butter.
You drill a hole in the bottom and the cap of the water bottle just a bit bigger than the coat hanger wire. Use the coat hanger wire to make an axle for the bottle so it spins freely and bend the wire to clip on the top lip of the bucket. Place your board like a ramp from the ground to the edge of the bucket where one end of the coat hanger is sitting. Slide the water bottle so it is about 1" from the end of this 'ramp' and cover the center of the bottle with a band of peanut butter. Put the RV antifreeze in the bucket.
They smell the peanut butter, climb the ramp, try to crawl out on the water bottle, it spins and they drop in and drown. Since it's antifreeze, it stays fluid and since it is also a preserative, they don't stink and rot.
The guys with the islands will have 20 or 30 in the trap by the end of winter and no nesting or damage in the cottage.
did something similar in the feed barns where we store our horse/goat feed, instead of a bottle made a teetertotter on the edge of a 50 gallon drum with the TT smeared with PB, with a large clump on the end, soon as they go too far they get dumped in and slightly heavier bottom of the TT resets it to a ramp to the other feed barrels, was over 50 mice in the barn, was only expecting a dozen @ most
Last edited by flannel_man; Apr 21, 2011 at 03:17 AM.
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