Non poison mouse trap.
5 gallon pickle bucket
1 steel skewer long enough to go across the pickle bucket
1 empty soda can
Peanut butter
Drill holes for the skewer on opposite sides of the bucket. run skewer
through then through the aluminum can and then out the other side. The
can needs to be able to turn.
Then paint peanut butter on can. And fill bucket with water. about
half way. Mouse goes across skewer to can can rolls over mouse falls
off into water. Mouse cant touch bottom or reach top and drowns.
deb
On 8/29/2011 7:04 PM, CathrynTherese Fitch Walden wrote:
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> I'll put the alfalfa up on the roost in the main barn, covered with a
> tarp. I took McDonald cups from the large lemon-aid with strawberry
> cups and put mouse bait in them for the feed room. (My husband buys
> the drink-shudder.) I melted peanut butter in the microwave and mixed
> just a bit on mouse bait with a plastic fork in each cup. I put them
> where the mice will find them. I also use plastic containers that
> angel food cakes and other products come in.
> Cut 2 holes by the bottom, put the mouse bait w/ peanut butter inside,
> put the lid on, then put outside of the barn with a piece of wood or a
> small brick on the top. I started getting after the mice early. I
> save anything I can make into a mouse bait station that rain can't get
> into that I can throw away after the bait is gone.
> Last time I put fly bait in pop, under the little barns, corn crib,
> and the tool shed, there were dead mice all over the yard and garden,
> plus a little opossum. There were no obvious mouse holes in those
> areas. I have to lock my cat up to make sure she doesn't go near it,
> just in case. Speaking of opossums, we caught two more last night.
> Cathryn
>
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