OT Better Mouse Bait

[Shawnba67]

I thought I would share this as its the mouse season. I have in the last couple years had some of the smartest mice I have ever had to deal with. They can clean the bait off about any trap without tripping it, they jump over traps wiley like little coyotes. I had one that took me 2 months to catch and to do it i had to put out a line of glue boards 2ft wide and 6ft long.
Any way I have had very good success with the old style metal triggered Victor traps,

I BAIT THEM WITH A MACORONI NOODLE
This when soft feeds through the rolled up end of trigger easily then dries and cannot be removed without setting off the trap!
I hope this helps someone rid themselves of pesky mice easier.
Good luck and good traping fellas

 

[GaryL1959]

I thought I would share this as its the mouse season. I have in the last couple years had some of the smartest mice I have ever had to deal with. They can clean the bait off about any trap without tripping it, they jump over traps wiley like little coyotes. I had one that took me 2 months to catch and to do it i had to put out a line of glue boards 2ft wide and 6ft long.
Any way I have had very good success with the old style metal triggered Victor traps,

I BAIT THEM WITH A MACORONI NOODLE
This when soft feeds through the rolled up end of trigger easily then dries and cannot be removed without setting off the trap!
I hope this helps someone rid themselves of pesky mice easier.
Good luck and good traping fellas

Use a little peanut butter un and on that noodle. Gives them a little extra incentive to gnaw on it.

 

[KevinThomas]

Might try a professionals tip for dealing with "new mice" as well. Bait the traps using PB, but don't set them. Let them have a couple free, easy, no risk meals so they get accustomed to it.

Then set the trap.

 

[swd]

We have chickens so we of course have rats. The best thing I've found is Apple. They love it. A small slice with the peel under the hook of the trap. A local pest control guys uses smal bit of Snickers bars. They work about the same as anything else for me but not as good as apples.

 

[okie]

Never thought of that. Clever. My "KILLER" trap, which gave me 62 confirmed kills, was the larger rat trap baited w/cracker and peanut butter tied securely w/dental floss. One fella repeatedly stripped it clean without tripping it, until his 5th try. I was sorry that our battle had to be to the death. He was an admirable opponent, even if he was a dirty rat.

thats funny lol

 

[T-shooter]

We have several cats outside. Grain fields on both sides. Never had a mouse problem but find them dead quite often in the yard.

 

[xring]

I must have gourmet Mice and Moles . They laugh at peanut butter or my old favorite ham . These guys love cream cheese and multigrain bread , but it usually takes a few days ..... and I use vinyl gloves when handling the the Victor Traps . Just had one that ran up my car engine and stored his food ( pieces of bread ) under the engine cover right next to one of the Coils . Guess he liked his food toasted .... but I got him in a few days .Right at this time , I had some Car starting / brand new Battery problems . Question : is it possible for a mouse or food to short out a Coil and damage the Battery ? The Dealer said so and recharged the Battery . The next morning ..... car no start ! Dealer changed the Battery , mouse was gone , and no more problem .

 

[ED3]

In traditional traps, I melt a bit of PowerBar into the grooves on the bait tray. Flows in soft, and firms up nicely when cooled. Mice seem to like powerbars, as they've chewed through more than one backpack to get to them.

Also, a 5 gal bucket, with a handful of sunflower seeds/ bird food in the bottom makes for a good live trap for multiple critter catches. Mouse-sized critters jump in, can't jump out.

I've gotten 12-15 since it cooled off recently.

 

[TheOtherZilla]

Damn mice. We have a cat that catches them and brings em in the house. Then lets em go.. This is the first cat I have had that doesn't kill em dead.. The dogs try to get em. In fact when I had Cairn Terriers they were he11 on rodents.. A snake is the best rodent deterrent but I hate snakes!!

 

[Richard Coody]

make a 5 gal bucket mouse trap. we call them murder buckets. my record is 11 in one night. many do better. lots of ways to build one

http://fivegallonideas.com/bucket-mouse-trap/

 

[Shawnba67]

Use a little peanut butter un and on that noodle. Gives them a little extra incentive to gnaw on it.

Its completely unecassary i assure you

 

[Just Dave]

Store brand chunky peanut butter has always worked best for me.
We got chickens, so we always have mice/muskrat/woodchucks/opossum stopping thru, when they get a whiff of chicken scratch.
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This time of year, to keep them out of house, I surround the yard with up to 15 traps and usually get 2 or 3 per week..
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I have fur trapped since I was a kid, so catching mice for coyote/fox bait has been a regular thing for decades.
FIRST TIME EVER in my life, I had a mouse get the bait, even though he set off the trap.. I wished I took a picture of it, but my recycling bin blew over, and crushed the trap before I got a chance, BUT, There was the tripped trap, with no PB left,
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Upon closer inspection, the trigger bounced, and got in the way of the bar coming down on the fellars head, and STUCK in mid-air position, while he cleaned up the pan nicely..
It took me several times to get another trap to even stay in that position,, it was clearly not THAT mouse's day !

 

[Stumpy1]

Try a small piece of bacon in the trap too -mice like it almost as much as we do!

My record for a bacon-baited trap is 4 minutes flat.

Frank

 

[centershot]

I gave up on traps. I baited them with Snicker bars, as they are sticky. They would just lick it off and not trip the trap. I started using Just One Bite Bars. I had to tie them off with wire as they would haul these big things off to their hole. They bit through string. Do not know how they got them in the tiny holes. Will wait and see.

 

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[dickn52]

Never forget...The second mouse gets the cheese.

 

[people]

I just use peanut butter and it works very well for the mice we have. I do have to clean it off and reapply every now and again.

These are what I use. I like the protected ones because you know how chickens are.
https://www.fleetfarm.com/detail/pic-mouse-trap-kit/0000000233641?Ntt=pic mouse trap

Tractor Supply Company sells a nested set.
https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/p...release-live-animal-traps-2-pack?cm_vc=-10005

The big one catches skunks like magic. They will occasionally catch chickens. The small ones really works for rats just put it in their movement paths. With any live trap you have to tweak the linkages to make sure it will go off.

I did have a Stoat (weasel) come in. She would just slip through the traps like wind. She finally gave me a shot with the 10mm and did not survive.

 

[Shawnba67]

I just use peanut butter and it works very well for the mice we have. I do have to clean it off and reapply every now and again.

These are what I use. I like the protected ones because you know how chickens are.
https://www.fleetfarm.com/detail/pic-mouse-trap-kit/0000000233641?Ntt=pic mouse trap

Tractor Supply Company sells a nested set.
https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/p...release-live-animal-traps-2-pack?cm_vc=-10005

The big one catches skunks like magic. They will occasionally catch chickens. The small ones really works for rats just put it in their movement paths. With any live trap you have to tweak the linkages to make sure it will go off.

I did have a Stoat (weasel) come in. She would just slip through the traps like wind. She finally gave me a shot with the 10mm and did not survive.

10mm on a stoat. Thats like deer hunting with a howitzer!

 

[KMart]

The big one catches skunks like magic.

Please describe how you get a skunk out of a trap, live or foot, without stirring up a stink. I have a skunk problem now and again but have not figured out how to get the stinker out of the trap safely

 

[people]

Please describe how you get a skunk out of a trap, live or foot, without stirring up a stink. I have a skunk problem not and again but have not figured out how to get the stinker out of the trap safely

Here is what I do so there is no stink.

50feet of 550 cord with a loop tied into one side.

Approach the cage from the door side. Keep low so the skunk will not see you.

Put a end though a hole in the mesh behind the locking bar.

Move away until the cord is end to end.

Put the free end into the loop and with the free end in your hand walk away.

This will tighten the looped end locking the cage closed.

Now just pull the cage away.

I have a big tank filled with water. There is a board that is a ramp so I can pull the skunk into the water.

A few minutes later the skunk is dead and does not stink. Empty into a plastic bag and toss into the trash or if you have a fire pit start a fire and burn it. Skunks burn amazingly well. raccoons I think are made of water and hardly burn.

If you shoot them they will spray every time.