Rebuilt the spring house last winter. Inside is a 4’x4’x7’ insulated box for plumbing and pump controls. Mice have always been a problem. Made it tight in hopes to keep them out. No. Tried dryer sheets, peppermint oil, Irish spring soap and bait blocks. The later might slow them down. Wish the hand sized spiders that live there would eat them.
Mice mischief
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bmg88201
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Rats ate some the fuel injector wires on my Yukon, ugh !!! So I put out bait blocks in the shed where I park. A couple of days later I popped the hood on the Yukon and the rats carried the bait blocks up on the engine up around the in take manifold. So I went and got live traps, caught three the first week, then one more and never had an issue again. The traps stay baited but empty now and no more damage to my car. All mice and rats must DIE !!!!!!
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Our cats stay in a pen at night, heated room, etc. If car/truck/tractor in a shed...keep cat in shed. Feed in evening and they'll go in at night. Water & litter box of course.
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T believe the main problem is SOY based wire insulation, that's food for them.
One this that sure helps is to park the vehicle on a large plastic tarp as the critters don't like walking on that.
One this that sure helps is to park the vehicle on a large plastic tarp as the critters don't like walking on that.
Used a soldering iron to melt slots in a pill bottle, hand cream jar and nut container for moth balls. Placed nut jar in spring house. Small containers in airstream compartments. Places have bait blocks too. Moth larvae will find and eat the grain out of the bait blocks. Guess I’m officially an old geezer now smelling like grandmother’s old house. Got to keep my nosy Labrador from them.
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I use TomCat traps and poison in my pole barn. Poisons like TomCat aren't as effective as they used to be since the EPA forced a formula change. It may not kill the rodents but at least it gives 'em something to chew on.
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old socks filled with mothballs offends 'em. more efficient than trapping or baiting 'em.
But if you want a world class ratter you gotta make it yourself.
rig a barrel with bait and a tip to trap the rats in the barrel.
When you got a barrel of rats put a screen over top and walk away.
In a week or two there will only be a couple left the others will have been eaten.
Let them go.
An old guy who was mule skinner for the army (he called it the war department) told me this, I never tried it.