recomending mouse trap

SquashNut · #1 07/22/08, 01:41 PM

If any one else having trouble because of your rabbit food drawing in mice, You might try one of those wind up mouse box type mouse traps.
we were going through lots of those snap traps trying to get an mice infestation under control. Spending $10 each time we bought. Then we bought the wind up live trap. it cost about $20. But I can see it lasting for much longer than $20 worth of snap traps.
We've been rotating it from the different rooms in the sheds and even in the house and calculate we have caught around 35 mice in it in 2 weeks. Up to 3 in one night.
I tryed home made ones but didn't have as good of result and some could only catch one mouse before it had to be set back up.
The bunnies sure look happier, not having some one steal their groceries.
During the shed clean-up we just did we found a nest with about 12 mice in it. Please never let me think storing a bunch of junk that I will never use again is a good idea.

Terry W · #2 07/22/08, 06:01 PM

So are these the 'repeating' mouse traps? If so, I have been wanting to try them-- are the mice still alive when you pick up the box?

SquashNut · #3 07/22/08, 06:18 PM

yes they do repeat. yes they are still alive, we dump them in a bucket. If you've butchered a rabbit, you can drown a mouse. especially when they are messing with your feed bill.

Marshloft · #4 07/22/08, 06:28 PM

Are you against the natural predators of mice, moles and snakes???
When I moved here 4 yrs ago,, there was an abundance of all the above according to my neighbors...
Since I brought with me a female that was pregnant at the time,, she has supplied the neighborhood with over 20 kittens...
We have neither .. rats,, mice,,moles or snakes anymore..
Gary H.

Terry W · #5 07/22/08, 06:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Marshloft

Are you against the natural predators of mice, moles and snakes???
When I moved here 4 yrs ago,, there was an abundance of all the above according to my neighbors...
Since I brought with me a female that was pregnant at the time,, she has supplied the neighborhood with over 20 kittens...
We have neither .. rats,, mice,,moles or snakes anymore..
Gary H.

Gary-- Unfortuneately, cats are not everyone's favorite critter-- and I, personally, LIKE snakes-- and snakes love to eat mice, moles, and voles... and will even eat other snakes.... AND.. one does not have to vet them....

SquashNut · #6 07/22/08, 06:57 PM

if the neighborhood cats had been doing their job, i wouldn't have had such a mess. instead they get in my shed and knocked stuff off the work benches, scared my rabbits and pooped in my garden beds. besides that they agravate my dogs into barking too much.

Marshloft · #7 07/22/08, 07:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Terry W

Gary-- Unfortuneately, cats are not everyone's favorite critter-- and I, personally, LIKE snakes-- and snakes love to eat mice, moles, and voles... and will even eat other snakes.... AND.. one does not have to vet them....

Actually,, I dislike cats myself,, this one adopted me.. So I allowed it to come live here..
It was allowed to come in the house as long as it behaved,,, and left me alone..
Gary H.

Beaniemom · #8 07/22/08, 11:17 PM

Snakes *shudders*

I dunno, something got my 6 week old eyeball pecking chicken, I was happy to see it was gone so I didn't have to kill it myself. What good is a chicken that can't hang out with other chickens?

My cat tries to keep the mice down, we live in the country, and there are a ton of mice, and I think one very smart rat I can't catch. (Now just you watch, I'll catch it and it'll be the neighbors escaped guinea pig or ferret or something else the kids "got tired of" like the bunny we rescued!

What is a wind up trap, BTW? I hate to admit it, but I gave up. I know, I should really try to catch them! They drag off the sticky traps, can't use the bait, and the only thing I caught with my rat trap was a large fuzzy rat, er, dog named Sacha!

SquashNut · #9 07/22/08, 11:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Beaniemom

Snakes *shudders*

What is a wind up trap, BTW? I hate to admit it, but I gave up. I know, I should really try to catch them! They drag off the sticky traps, can't use the bait, and the only thing I caught with my rat trap was a large fuzzy rat, er, dog named Sacha!

I think this is what you are looking for, they work great.

http://www.doyourownpestcontrol.com/425N.jpg

turtlehead · #10 07/23/08, 08:02 AM

Our neighbor has two cats and says they don't have mice - but they don't have out buildings and critter feed. We have a cat that lives in the shed and when I feed her I find mouse poops in her food bowl sometimes. Some mouser she is... NOT!

We have a house cat that just had three kittens, and we have mice in the house sometimes. There are just a TON of mice around here!

We have black snakes, and we like black snakes. They live under the house. Sometimes they come into the house and we just take them outside and let them go by the porch, and they slide back under the house.

We also have rats so bad that for several months I had no rabbit kits live to make it out of the nest. The rats got them all.

I've resorted to the poison bait chunks, stashed away where the rabbits and chickens and cats and dogs can't get to them. So far, so good. I still see evidence of rodents from time to time but the majority of "evidence" is that the bait gets nibbled occasionally.

I'm thinking that repeating/wind up trap would be good for the house, though. I don't put bait around the house because we have a shallow well. Is the link you posted the thing you've had such good success with, SquashNut? I can picture one of those going nicely with my interior decor...

SquashNut · #11 07/23/08, 11:08 AM

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Originally Posted by turtlehead

Our neighbor has two cats and says they don't have mice - but they don't have out buildings and critter feed. We have a cat that lives in the shed and when I feed her I find mouse poops in her food bowl sometimes. Some mouser she is... NOT!

We have a house cat that just had three kittens, and we have mice in the house sometimes. There are just a TON of mice around here!

We have black snakes, and we like black snakes. They live under the house. Sometimes they come into the house and we just take them outside and let them go by the porch, and they slide back under the house.

We also have rats so bad that for several months I had no rabbit kits live to make it out of the nest. The rats got them all.

I've resorted to the poison bait chunks, stashed away where the rabbits and chickens and cats and dogs can't get to them. So far, so good. I still see evidence of rodents from time to time but the majority of "evidence" is that the bait gets nibbled occasionally.

I'm thinking that repeating/wind up trap would be good for the house, though. I don't put bait around the house because we have a shallow well. Is the link you posted the thing you've had such good success with, SquashNut? I can picture one of those going nicely with my interior decor...

Yes this is the one we have, 40 and still counting.

Jcran · #12 07/23/08, 11:25 AM

We had one of those LIVE catch mouse traps back when I was in 4-H. The trap emptier would kill the mice then feed them to the chickens; omg, it was like a really sick soccer game...grab the carcass and RUN! All the chickens would then chase and grab and RUN...actually it was more like that original POLO game where the tribal men used a goat. But those chickens loved to eat them little micies.