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Looks like it'd work, but it's worthless as tits on a boar hog. Mine has worked for me several times. I put RV anti-freeze in the bucket.
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I like the snap traps myself. There’s something about hearing them go….POP. You know you got one. 😁 I get satisfaction from seeing their little heads caved in under the bar. But as for the poison I use the TomCat stuff in the tractors, combine, and pickup. I have found lots of dead mices in the shop and machine shed but never a dead one in one of my vehicles. I’ve heard they are in search of water when they croak. No clue if that’s true or not but it sounds good to me.
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Baking soda and cornbread mix, glue traps.
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Kentucky mice are bigger than Texas mine. Need the extra penetration
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Snap traps and two high test felines. I'm not sure how they avoid popping the traps themselves, but they do. The only drawback is the occasional dead mouse in the house. Having grown up with a barn cat that had a four figure body count that we knew about, no big deal.
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Final works best, for me. I’ve tried Contrac, and it works, but the blocks are waxier, and have less grain than the Contrac. They “take” to the Final better/more quickly. Google “brodifacoum”, and “Rat Island”. The Feds used the stuff to eliminate rats on an entire island. https://www.iwla.org/publications/o...Issue-2/chemotherapy-for-island-wildlife
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Anti-freeze in a plastic coffee can top or similar. They can’t resist and drink themselves to death.
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https://www.amazon.com/Intruder-304...287CBB02TgR2EAQYASABEgKCo_D_BwE&th=1I use these traps putting peanut butter in the lid above trip plate, so they step on plate to reach. Also use a 20 gal feed supplement bucket with 2" wheat in bottom and a plank up to rim. last time got 16 mice in shop next to truck.
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I still prefer Mother natures cure. A good cat or two. They can patiently sit and watch for hours, if they hear a mouse.
Don't feed the barn cat's too much. Plus, I like cat's, dogs not so much. Too noisy and always need to take them out.
Added benefit of cat: Cut down on those noisy song birds, that like to wake me at 5:00 AM!
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Boy it sucks to be getting old. Too lazy to walk across the room to get my readers, so I sat here wondering WTF anyone would want to poison a moose?
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To use poisoned bait like "just one bite" outside near entrances without having to worry about animals I don't want to poison, I put some of the bait into a 2" pvc pipe (about 8" long) with one end capped and put a removable cap with a mouse sized hole on the other end. They will eat it and go die. Add bait as needed.
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Some of the rat poisons are really bad. Kills rat, dog eats rat……dead dog according to some vets. I just use traps.
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Jim, is that the chit that smells like garlic?
Used to treat grain for bugs?
I must thinking of something else, I've used a bunch of weevil-cide.
Nope just googled. Yep. It's horrible stuff. Yep - be careful with that stuff! We use it for educated/resistant prairie dogs. I've been sickened by it once or twice. BAD stuff! Previous owner of my brother's place lost a hired hand to it, didn't get him to the hospital quick enough. I'm told it basically puts off mustard gas. Dunno for sure, but it can be deadly!
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Some of the rat poisons are really bad. Kills rat, dog eats rat……dead dog according to some vets. I just use traps. It most certainly can. My neighbor breeds shepherds, they lost 2 who were chewing on a poisoned rat.
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Not only will poison kill pets from secondary poisoning (eating the animal that eats the pioson) it will also kill raptors.
We have a terrible rat problem and have traps everywhere, BUT the only way to get rid of the problem is several barn cats raised by a rodent killing mother.
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I do not understand the "too small to set off traps" bit. I use Victor rat traps out in the woodshed and catch mice with them all the time.
Not only peanut butter, but pinch a raisin on that trigger, kinda mash it into the cutouts, then spread peanut butter on that. Works really good it seems if the raisin gets dried out and hard as the little bastids have to work at it, no licking it off the trigger.
And I use a product called RatX and MouseX, kills mice and rats without harming other things..........supposedly.
And Shake Away or Fresh Cab repellent. Especially under vehicle hoods, seems to work pretty well in the woodshed too as I only catch a few mice every winter now. Raisin on a Victor Trap as above. Mash the raisin on the bait holder so it's opened up[smell]. They can't resist.
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Papalongdog: I agree with DillonBuck - peanut butter spread liberally on a mouse traps trigger.
That'll get'em.
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