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Have a plague of mice going on for the second year in a row. Used to have a few voles around but these are genuine mice with ears and all.. Have tried traps, sticky pads, poison, bucket traps, mice repellant scents and sonic repellents. Even have broken down and gotten two barn cats that the jury is still our on Any other solutions or suggestions?
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Dan, bury 5 gallon buckets to lid level. Fill with 4 inches of antifreeze. Smear tons of penut butter on back side of plastic lid. Put on plastic lid with little whole cut in middle.
Check traps once a month, they will be full o rodents
Elimate any easy food source kicking around.
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Dunno- but Chako the Wunder Wiener keeps showing us the mice he has killed in the yard.. Never been aware of them here before- only voles. lotsa big holes...
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Ermine/Weasels are a solution.
ALASKA is a "HARD COUNTRY for OLDMEN". (But if you live it wide'ass open, balls'to the wall, the pedal floored, full throttle, it is a delightful place, to finally just sit-back and savor those memories while sipping Tequila).
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The dumbassed DEC banned the use of effective poisons about 10 or more years ago. The schitt that replaced it is pretty useless. Wherever your are nowadays, you're overrun with rodents. I hope when the bubonic plague strikes, it gets the DEC a$$holes first.
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I kinda like mainers idea.
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Mainer try water with liquid dish washing soap at the same depth as the antifreeze. Let me know what you think. I used to have an automatic steel trap and it had an exit spring tightly wound that directed the mice into the end of the spring. It had a steel canning jar flat on the end and I put it on a half gallon canning jar. About a third full of soapy water and the little rats would drown fast. Be Well, RZ.
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For you Alaskans: Sure we don't have no disease in our rodents BUT: Them red back voles are right chock full of tapeworm, the darker field voles as well. Tape worm will kill a young puppy in a matter of weeks. Don't feed them voles to dogs or cats. If your pets are outdoors and catch them voles occasionally, deworm. Last year, them voles were so bad, they would find dry dog kibble, and they stuffed my Honda generator muffler full of dog food. The big ones can chew through a 5 gallon plastic bucket. Once they sht in dog food, consider it contaminated with tape worm egg. Gotta store all the dogfood in steel drums. I deworm the whole dog lot once a month. Heres a few today:
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Dan, bury 5 gallon buckets to lid level. Fill with 4 inches of antifreeze. Smear tons of penut butter on back side of plastic lid. Put on plastic lid with little whole cut in middle.
Check traps once a month, they will be full o rodents
Elimate any easy food source kicking around.
Like that ideal will try it at my camp in PA,
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In my youth we (the whole "large" family) always had tapeworms and ringworms. All through our youth, standard procedure was Poop then look in the toilet and see what was wiggling/moving, then till mom, you needed that red stuff they gave you to kill the worms. Seems you hardly hear of kids having tapeworms now days.
ALASKA is a "HARD COUNTRY for OLDMEN". (But if you live it wide'ass open, balls'to the wall, the pedal floored, full throttle, it is a delightful place, to finally just sit-back and savor those memories while sipping Tequila).
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The 5 gallon bucket works great. But you got to remove the dead once in a while. They stink.
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