Is there a limit to the number of mice you can trap in a barn?

[MossRoad]

Try this repeating mouse trap from a 5 gallon bucket, coat hangar and paper plate. Pretty darn clever if you ask me.

Build your own repeating mouse trap by Allen Easterly

 

[adirondackmtnman]

Sounds like you need a couple barn cats...That's if you don't mind buying a bag of food for them every now and then...The neighbors have a few roaming around, and they keep us pretty rodent-free

 

[xring100]

Try this repeating mouse trap from a 5 gallon bucket, coat hangar and paper plate. Pretty darn clever if you ask me.

Build your own repeating mouse trap by Allen Easterly

Similar to the pop can method forgot to mention the pb. I cant use water because it freezes and never had any problems with the rv antifreeze stinking even durring the Sumner and i dont routinely empty the traps

 

[Soundguy]

In my 40 x 60 pole barn with a gravel floor I have been trapping mice since fall and seem to be able to catch an unlimited supply. I don't get it. I'm easily over 100 and can catch them nearly as soon as I set the trap. ?

according to my heard of cats... no, there is no reasonable upper limit of mice and lizards that can be caught on a farm.

they ran out of small birds and squirrels inside the fencline... and the crows are too smart to be predated.. so the mice suffer the brunt of the inmate-cat-convict halfway house that I run.... Snakes sure are sore about it.. so are the fox, possum and raccoons.... not much forage for them so they have mostly moved on ( GREAT! )

my feed and chicken losses drastically dropped after getting cats in the barn. feed losses stopped within 2 weeks... chicken losses due to predation stopped after about 6m after the rodent population subsided, thus making my area less good hunting ground. worked better than I expected... for the price of a 16# bag of cat chow a month.. I am saving $$$ on feed and animal losses. As a side benefit.. whenever I go out and get on a tractor inthe morning, the soft padded seat has been pre-warmed by the cats that love to sleep on my tractors. ( also.. the wire chewing on my tractors by mice.. coincidentally stopped at the same time! )

 

[8n Bruce]

You just need to get the neighbours to own cats ,thats where my rodent deterent comes from. I think he does the whole neighbourhood . The first month, I lived here, I spent trying to keep him out but noticed the mouse problem starting so I made cat entrance for him, no more mice :confused3::cool2:

 

[hr3]

If you have power in your barn just get some of those plug in rodent things.. lol not sure what they are called.. I have one in the house and one each in the barn and garage... They work great,,

 

[MossRoad]

If you have power in your barn just get some of those plug in rodent things.. lol not sure what they are called.. I have one in the house and one each in the barn and garage... They work great,,

Robot cats?

 

[Deere Dude]

Try this repeating mouse trap from a 5 gallon bucket, coat hangar and paper plate. Pretty darn clever if you ask me.

Build your own repeating mouse trap by Allen Easterly

I have to make a couple of them. I think that's a good idea.

Last year I just threw a couple handfuls of sunflower seeds in a 5 gallon bucket of water with a ramp and caught a lot of mice. They will slow down in time, but there will always be stragglers, so enjoy the time spent slaughtering those little varmints.

 

[TCJatko]

Is there a limit? My experience says no.

 

[Buckgnarly]

Ah yes, the wheel of death....
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