Getting Rid of Mice in my shop ?

[digger Bob]

You have some intelligent mice!
Mine never misses. Must be the breed. The mice I get are the White footed variety.
Good luck!

 

[Lacal]

I have used a five gallon pail filled half way with water in which I floated a small piece of 2X4 with peanut butter and seed on it. I then placed the bucket next to my bench.

Rats - years ago we would take corn and roll it in plaster of paris. We always wore rubber gloves that had been washed in hot water to get rid of human scent. I guess today you could use a hunting lure scent. Rats seemed to avoid anything with human scent. The plaster of paris when ingested did the same job that Warfarin does today. My wife had two rats in glue traps last week and rather than wait for them to die I shot them with snake shot.

 

[Jay4200]

The bucket idea is great - I'll have try it.

Has anyone made a DIY ratzapper? I've read the posts about using electricity but they seem to indicate that they don't kill them? - confused. I'd like to try to make one that just instantly zaps em. Seems more humane than drowning I've got some ideas but wondered if anyone else had already done it.

Use an oil-burner igniter transformer. That should electrocute a mouse quite nicely.

JayC

 

[Pixguy]

Like you can use peppermint oil to get rid of them

I've used P-oil on a cotton ball in my motorhome trying to keep them out and all that got me is droppings on the cotton ball.

I do use Fresh Cab and if they still don't stay away then the poison, snap traps or glue traps git-em.

 

[nickel plate]

I tried the can in the bucket, but overall for me what works best and is easy is a bucket 2/3 full with water and a couple handfuls of sunflower seeds thrown in. Don't forget the ramp. This works well with mice and great with gophers.

Deere Dude,
Please elaborate on how your bucket method "works great with gophers" as I have lots of them and need your help.

 

[Hiltz]

Hey Guys, I have a mouse problem in my shop and have an idea of how to get rid of them without messy traps or dangerous poisons. See what you think.
I thought I would simply start up my John Deere 790 and let it run for an hour letting diesel fumes and carbon monoxide kill the litttle critters. Now my shop is well insulated and pretty air tight so the fumes will certainly fill up the shop area. Do you guys think the mouse will suffocate or as they are getting little headaches in their little heads do you think they will try to scamper outdoors. Oh, Im gonna put a timer on the tractor while Im outside the shop. Think it will work?

Hey Guys. I see my old thread got ressurected. Just to update everbody I did try my original method of letting my tractor run for about an hour with my shop all closed up. I have noticed almost no mice for a long time. Now I dont know if they died or ran away ( no dead mice layiing around or vile smells so they might have ran away) but I have been pretty much mice free...Cheers

 

[Boris1]

I am in the process of trying to catch my 5th mouse in as many days out in my pole barn. All I am using is a snap trap and bread with peanut butter. **** things like building nests in my push mower. I had one miss but every other try has caught one to this point. I thought there might have been 2 at the most but apparently I was mistaken. I guess I'll find out if there was five.

 

[tungularafishcamp]

Live mice make great bass bait. Been there, done that.

JayC

trout too!

 

[Deere Dude]

Deere Dude,
Please elaborate on how your bucket method "works great with gophers" as I have lots of them and need your help.

First I am assuming gophers and chipmunks are the same critter, but I take a 5 gallon bucket about 1/2 to 2/3 full of water and place it where I know chipmunks like to hang out. I went to the store and got 5-10 pounds of bulk sunflower seeds, which will last a long time by the way, and just throw a couple handfuls in the bucket. They will float for a couple to three days before they sink. Then I take a branch or a 2x4 about 3 foot long and lean it over the lip of the bucket. Then I take 1/4 handful of seeds and sprinkle it on the ground and up the ramp to try to entice them and fatten them up. Then in a few days when the seeds are no longer floating I dump the bucket with the chipmunk corpses in the woods as a warning for the rest of them. Sometimes a bigger animal will come and tip the bucket over to get at the stinky corpses before I can empty them out, but that's fine to. I had set up about 3-4 of these buckets around the property and it never failed to get at least one. Now I am down to maybe a few chipmunks that I can see romping around and that I can live with.

 

[nickel plate]

Deere Dude,
You had me hoping for a miracle that you had a way to convince a gopher to come out of its underground tunnel, climb a ramp and jump into a bucket of water! Chipmunks and gophers are two entirely different "critters".