Mice

[Scrambler82]

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It's hard to say if the plug-in sonic devices had an affect on the mice in my barn. It didn't seem to affect their appetite in eating the bait I'd left for them.

The aroma therapy machine is an interesting option. I'd feel guilty walking in the barn and interrupting their zen-yoga sessions. Maybe a little music would be nice as well: Music for rats - Relaxing music to help your rat calm down and sleep - YouTube (it's kind of scary that 1.8k people liked this music meant for calming rats.)
Of course I'm joking.
Lastly, let me know how your mice detergent works out. You may be onto something there...

LoL !

Not even sure how I am going to tell if they are gone or even new ones have moved in... the Yuppie Mice.
I use my Barn as a Workshop, once in a while I will find a piece of chewed upper somewhere just a reminder that they are still around.

I was using the Tom Cat Flip Type Traps wit Peanut butter as bait but nothing is happening. The Bait is still full.
May have been the Cotton Balls with Peppermint Oil on them or maybe the Aroma Therapy Machine worked faster than I thought.

I have to fill this one once a day but I will do some check ing and cleaning up in a month and see where it is going.

Ltr

 

[Smokeydog]

Set up walk-the-plank mouse traps in a 13 gallon tall kitchen trash can with ramps and peanut butter. Center of tractor barn with no water in bucket. First 24 hours no mice. Peanut butter intact. Getting colder, below freezing tonight might help.

 

[Scrambler82]

Set up walk-the-plank mouse traps in a 13 gallon tall kitchen trash can with ramps and peanut butter. Center of tractor barn with no water in bucket. First 24 hours no mice. Peanut butter intact. Getting colder, below freezing tonight might help.

That is a great way to check to see if the Peppermint Smelling Barn is working.
I will set up a Walk-the-Plank on the smaller bucket with water, if after a short time frame I get no mice in the bucket... MAYBE the my idea will work in the long run. Gotta Luv Peppermint !

 

[Smokeydog]

Forth day on my fancy walk-the-plank trap in the tractor shed. No mice. Saw a mouse maybe two scurrying along the wall when I got a tractor out yesterday. No mouse nest found on that tractor. I’m sure the mouse population varies. Poison blocks under the house, log cabin and another old house can sit for months untouched then suddenly be all gone.

Still want to corse metal screen the air filter inlet hose. Don’t want inadvertently suck debris or acorns into the engine.

One spring I noted during an unusual population explosion of chipmunks saw 20 crossing the 1/2 driveway while leaving. Using that area, conservatively figured there could be 5-10K around us! Going to need a bigger trap ;-)

 

[Xfaxman]

For "walk the plank" trap users, here is an idea I saw in the Reviews on the eBay listing:

Hang the bait from the lid. The picture is looking under the lid of the storage container that he cut a hole in for the trap. The black shiney think is the "plank". The bait is hanging on the left.

 

[Tomtint]

Got in my 17 F450 today as I haven't used it in a few weeks and just wanted to move it around a bit. ..was greeted by that unmistakable stench of mouse. .. After about 30 minutes of hunting for the nest, I found it on top of the cab air filter. .. It was a matter of dropping the glove box out of the way, pulling a couple pieces of trim off, removing 2 - 7mm bolts and pulling the filter out. I vaccd it out really well and gave it the sniff test.. No mouse smell. New filter 26.00, and put it back together. ... There may be just a faint smell left..maybe from the smell going through the vents earlier. .. If it does not go away.. I'm getting rid of the truck.

 

[Gee Ray]

Spread some baking soda into a glass baking dish and set it on the floorboard. Let it set if that is not enough pour some vanilla extract on some cotton balls in a glass bowl. If that does not work I will come and drive the truck away for you.

 

[PILOON]

What happened to the mice discussion? :laughing:

LOL. an unwritten rule, the discussion ramps off to left field after 6-7 posts are addressed to the listed topic!

 

[PILOON]

Forget all the fancy trap ideas.
A 5 gal bucket and a handful of popcorn in the bottom will get them all.
Just place the bucket close to a wall and they will find their way to the bottom being greedy as they are,
Mice simply can't jump higher that the bucket sidewall.

LOL, I had a bucket near my fireplace and some popcorn dropped to the bucket.
Overnight I had 6 mice trapped in the bucket!
(LOL, I don't believe in trap and release either)

 

[Xfaxman]

I also ordered 2 rat and 3 mouse from his eBay store: https://www.ebay.com/usr/southern-outdoors?ul_noapp=true

Update, the first mouse trap I put in place caught 3 mice the first day, 1 the second day and 1 the third day :thumbsup:.

Need to go back down there and check it again.