Avoiding mice, not enough snakes up here!

[h2opdler]

sometimes just the cat fur will chase them away. collect some of the fur as the cat is shedding and place it around where you want to keep the mice away from.

 

[bota7800]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Someone suggested getting some Red Fox Urine cover scent from a hunting store and spray it under the hood. I got some and spray a little under the hood on the inside of each fender well and behind each front tire every month or so. )</font>

Some garden centers and nurseries also carry various preditor urines. I don't really want to know how they collect it /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

A fellow I knew placed 18 inch high pieces of sheetmetal surrounding the 3 wheels of his airplane. Claimed the mice could not climb or jump it. Don't know how to do that with a tractor but you might be more imaginative than me.

 

[txdon]

<font color="blue"> "sometimes just the cat fur will chase them away" </font>

Sometimes not. I just "relocated" a mouse that used cat fur from the porch to make a nest. I now have two unemployed porch cats. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[LBrown59]

<font color="brown"> The most effective method us sealing up all the places they can get in. </font>

 

[countrybob1]

Our cat has lived in the feed shed most of her life and has done a great job with getting rid of mice and the odd rat.
I might have to replace her soon, at 18 she is deaf and getting forgetful, my wife thinks we have a bit in common! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[KJO]

I have always wondered whether the electronic pest repellant devices worked or not. I see a local company has several of them for keeping out mice, squirrels (the red ones will eat right through the soffits) and hopefully gophers. We have gophers digging holes in our levee. Not a good thing where we live in a flood plain.

 

[Fishguy]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( <font color="brown"> The most effective method us sealing up all the places they can get in. </font> )</font>

That's kinda tough to do on a tractor parked outside or under a lean-to. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

I tried the mothball trick on a ground mole once. Never could tell if it worked cause the dang dog did more damage digging the mothballs up. Yard looked like the moon when he was done. Sure do miss that dog. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

 

[Captinjack]

I have always had a mouse problem at my deer camp and poison and traps had limited effect.

What has been very effective is the use of powered Habaero peppers! Sprinkle it around the periphery of a room or building and you have seen the last of your mice or rates. They are acturally clean animals and when they lick their paws.......eeeeeeoooooow! They have incredible sense of smell and absolutely will not go where the hot dust is.

I have two riding mowers that mice have always made a winter nest in the air cowling. Each spring the first thing I have to do is remove the cowling and remove the nests or else the engine will overheat. Now when I put them up for the winter, i use a shaker and put the hot stuff all over the engine. Presto..........mice be gone!

I know it sounds unusual, but it really works and is not toxic to other critters or the environment. This even works on ground hogs under sheds. Sprinkle it down the holes and the G-hogs will leave for greener pastures.

I doesn't take much to grow a bunch of these peppers. Drying them is a pain. Grind them up in a blender after drying. Make sure you use a respirator and rubber gloves. Whatever you do..............make sure your hands are clean before taking a leak or your day will change for sure!

 

[slowrev]

KJO.
Electronic rodent repellers have worked wonderfully for me. I just bought the cheap ones at sams or big lots. No mice in home or workshop/sheds now.
Ben
Not many seem to believe me and I just smile and sit in my mouse free home /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[gbick]

Slow, do you suppose one of these devices would chase the bats out of my attic?