Home Made Mouse Traps Any ideas ?

[gunna]

Here's one I found will make it up on the W/end  see how it goes
sheeds

The Spinning Can Mouse Trap , looks simple enough; run a wire through a beer or soda can and suspend it over a bucket of water. A stick or ruler is placed so he can climb up the bucket and peanut butter is put on the can to entice the mouse. When he gets to the can it spins like a log in water and he falls. Of course the mouse drowns in this scenario  LOL

[speewa158]

  Your on the job Gunna  . Might I suggest  A bigger bucket & more water . Has anybody got a recipe for grilled field mouse 

[Chippy76]

maybe speewa could give u some empty cans! :p lol

Cheers Chippy

[Crazy Dog]

Here's a recipe  
http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,1826,153177-243197,00.html Field mouse one..

For rats etc see below....
http://bertc.com/subfive/recipes/cookingrats.htm

Grrr!!!

[HEM19X]

Remove the can & sprinke chaff/wheat on the surface of the water...same result, the mice go up the ruler etc, jump in the bucket to get the chaff & plop...gornsky

Hem

[gunna]

Yeah Chippy mite be able to mass produce them  im sure speewa could donate some emptys
I checked out that recipe for field mouse hate to be the one that has to deboned
them  lol
Hem thats easy good stuff
sheeds

[Dion]

Sooo ... you're trying to build a better mouse trap eh? 

[Robbo]

This is still one of the better mouse traps around the house

[MDS69]

maybe speewa could give u some empty cans! :p lol

Cheers Chippy

From what I read here about speewa there would be more traps than mice

[savanahkelpy]

A mate of mine does this on his hobby farm. A 50/50 dry mix of plaster of paris and flour, puts a small pile on a saucer, puts an old upturned plastic bucket on it with a suitable sized mouse door cut in it, and some bricks on top. He puts it under his work bench with stuff around it like short lengths of timber, other work detritus,etc, to prevent his pets and any other animals getting to it, and renews it as required.

[dno]

A horse stud were a friend works mixes cement with grain and feeds the little blighters, it's nothing to see the dog playing with a mouse golfball. They go rock hard, no smell and not dangerous to the other animals.

[Chippy76]

Yeah Im not a fan of poison baits, for the obvious reasons of the risk to other wildlife (Dogs and cats are only likely to be gravely ill if they eat the bait directly) However birds and other small animals can die from the toxicity of just a few mouse kills.

So I follow the cement/flour trick in the shed, I always ensure there is a fresh supply of water out for the little blighters. It doesnt  have a 100% success rate, I know that there are still some around. But it helps to control the numbers. Living in the country ina heavy grain producing area, we have our fair share of them from time to time. Also another good reason to leave carpet snakes alone , they are the best rat/mice catchers ever.

I have tried the sticky traps, and other live catch traps, but the problem there is cruelty, and disposing of the live mice ...
I still think the old wooden mouse traps have merit tho ....

Cheers Chippy

[Garry H]

I have used the same idea as gunna xcepting just an oiled wine bottle with a stick with some peanut butter on the end,
remember as a kid setting a 44 gal drum in the shed on the farm and getting 1/2 full over night

cheers
Garry

[Bird]

another idea

[Chippy76]

I'd love to see him fire that! lol

Cheers Chippy

[Bird]

I'd love to see him fire that! lol
Cheers Chippy

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[JayD]

I reckon these look the goods...

http://www.victorpest.com/store/rodent-control/m260

[Old Bugger]

This is still one of the better mouse traps around the house
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If that's a tom cat, it would be a ball bearing mouse trap, eh.

Ray. ]