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Know we have discussed before the topic but has anyone come up with a better way yet? Mothballs, Bull snakes, poison, and cats? It is that time of year that the little friends climb into every nook and cranny and pizz and chew apart everything they can get into.
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Fresh CabFriend with farm equipment told me about it, use in a camper for a few years now and so far no issues.
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I have a shooting house, that's built 8 foot off the ground, and I only use t during the couple of weeks that deer season is in. The mice use it the other 50 weeks of the year. I've tried everything......an owl decoy, mothballs, dryer sheets, poison, you name it, I've tried it. Nothing really works. I have to clean it out every year, air it out good, spray the inside down with bleach, and put metal sheeting over the holes they've gnawed......all for a few days use. The local farm store sells something like that "Fresh Cab", and I'm going to give it a try. I've even thought about going to the local animal shelter and adopt me a herd of cats and lock them up in there.
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Fresh CabFriend with farm equipment told me about it, use in a camper for a few years now and so far no issues. Linky no worky
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I rotate between Tomcat All Weather Bait Chunx and Tomcat Mouse and Rat Bromethalin Bait Chunx. Amazon, Tractor Supply, and several places carry them. One is an anti-coagulant, and the other is a neurotoxin, so you don't have as much trouble with the rodents developing resistance. They both have a hole running the length of the chunk. I always put a nail through the hole, and fasten the chunk to something. Otherwise, rats, chipmunks, etc. will just carry the chunk off and store it without eating it.
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I have had some Tomcat bait out in barn cabinets for over a year and nothing has touched it that I can tell. What does disappear is D-Con pellets. Mice eat it like candy.
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I've been told the Dcon, in the little box, makes the rodents really thirsty before it kills them. In their search for water the can chew through pex.
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these work well for me in my pole barn......Decon pellets other critters can carry them off & eat them too..... not so good with livestock around.....
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Moth balls don't work.
My father had a Jeep Cherokee at our vacation house. In the winter he'd use Decon. Then we'd have dead mice as well as mouse schit, piss, and blood everywhere. One time a lady at the hardware store told him to use moth balls and that would keep them out. The following Summer, we opened up the Jeep and now it smelled like Dead mice and moth balls. It ruined the interior. We never could get the smell of moth balls out of it. We used to call it "The Mousemobile".
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Years ago, I had a problem with mice getting into my feed in the barn. I mentioned that I need to get a cat, and a few days later, a box full of them was left in the barn. Took me years to figure out the culprit. Anyway, it worked, as that mama cat, and then later on her kittens, kept the barn mouse free. I have a cat now, but he's like me......old and lazy, so I have mice again.
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Fresh CabFriend with farm equipment told me about it, use in a camper for a few years now and so far no issues. Linky no worky Oops.... Fresh Cab
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theres some stuff the co-op sells. One more bite ?? or something. A corn yellow brick about 1"x4" big. I've found dead mice a few feet from it. I worked with a hand from LA. He had problems with swamp rats eating the wires in his boat. Took him a case of it and it worked on those also. THe big squirrel size rats. just one bite is the brand
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boric acid mixed with peanut butter
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Get a weasel. We had one follow the mice into the house and the mice disappeared in a week. When I found where they all got into the house I had to make a tough choice- plug the hole to keep out the weasel and hopefully mice or leave it open and only have the weasel to deal with. Maybe a better choice would be a pet ferret. It is a bit bigger but they will usually return to their cage. Tell your wife it is a rare breed of cat if she is not keen on the idea. Name it Rikki Tikki Tavi.
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pop-goes-the-weasel......
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If it’s outside - I’ve heard some cap fulls of anti-freeze work because they drink it and croak.
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Have your dog eat one of those poison killed mice and you might think twice about using it. We can' keep barn cats around due to fox, coyote, great horn owls, but the neighbors replenish theirs about every two years. We get the benefit when those visit our barn at night,
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Combination of traps, the Fresh Cab stuff mentioned already and this stuff, RatX: https://www.ecoclearproducts.com/Don't like the idea of our whippets "killing" a sick rat that's full of DeCon type stuff. Same goes for the badger I've seen around. Geno
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I forgot something called "Shake Away". Similar in scent to the Fresh Cab stuff. I hate mice/rats in my stuff so I try all sorts of solutions.
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