How to raise Backyard Chickens: Non poison mouse trap.... was Re: [CHICKENS-101] ]How many chickens in a 10x10 coop?? Now enrichment, also! :)

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Non poison mouse trap.... was Re: [CHICKENS-101] ]How many chickens in a 10x10 coop?? Now enrichment, also! :)

Ditto this, no worries. You can skip the can and just float bird seed on the surface, enought to cover it and they will jump in on their own.

Renee

--- In CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com, deb <perchie.girl@...> wrote:
>
> 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
>