Mouse traps

[used red MN]

https://images.search.yahoo.com/yhs...96A2_s69_g_e_d_n0003_c999&hspart=fc&hsimp=yhs here is a picture. Put it where the mice can get to it & not the cats & chickens. Put a dab of peanut butter in it for bait.

Teddy’s link didn’t work but this should.
How to make tilting bottle mouse trap
Since that is a video and you claim your internet has pitiful capabilities, here is a link to some step by step instructions. Build tilt bottle trap step by step
I suppose if I am still on ignore you won’t see this. You can protect this from interference by your chickens by building a wood enclosure for it that leaves a space for the mice to get under but not the chickens. Or maybe a milk crate upside down if it is big enough will have openings big enough for mice and to small for chickens. I would guess a submarine operator could figure out something. If you don’t “Google” or use your internet connection to the World Wide Web to search things what did you do all that time you were on hiatus from YT?

 

[old]

https://images.search.yahoo.com/yhs...96A2_s69_g_e_d_n0003_c999&hspart=fc&hsimp=yhs here is a picture. Put it where the mice can get to it & not the cats & chickens. Put a dab of peanut butter in it for bait.

Where the chickens and cats can't got to it is next to impossible

 

[stdsch40]

Gitcherself one of these! TOUGH on rodents, but drags off the cat food!

That animal is called a Stoat, Ermine,Weasle very good to be friends with. You are blessed, they are friendly and eat mice.

 

[DaveBN]

Old, you can put a small cardboard box over a regular mouse trap to keep chickens, dogs, cats from getting in the trap. Cut a small entrance so only a small critter like a mouse can get to the trap. You could secure the box to the floor with a screw or such.
You can set several traps in one place if it's a frequent area for mice. They will get caught right next to each other, they are not very smart.
I use the Victor traps with what looks like a piece of yellow cheese as the trigger. You can position the trigger for F-firm or S-sensative. Looke closely on the yellow cheese like trigger to see the F or S marking.
Dave

 

[Texasmark]

Plays H### with the wildlife, though, unless you now have none.

My mouse traps are Pandora and Tigger! Used to have Sugar and Spicy, but Sugar probably got run over somewhere. She tended to wander afar. Spicy was the one that got shot, and is now an indoor cat. No mice issues here.

And the dogs get the voles/moles in the fenced yard. Cats get them elsewhere in the non-fenced yard.

Actually I have Raccoons, withessed by their trails around the edge of my pond just inside of where the level of the pond meets the bank. I have to put my Tom Kat inside a partitioned, specially made container, with a wire running through it to spool the chunks in place.

Without it (the box) my TK would be gone every morning. Now all I have is a box turned all sorts of ways flipped in different positions every morning. Before I built the box the trails were still there and something is playing hell with the box full of baits............

 

[Blackhole49]

I've had great luck with the tipping lid for 5 gallon bucket for many years. RV antifreeze doesn't in my area.

 

[zuhnc]

@Texasmark - Precautions taken then; good!

 

[old]

Old, you can put a small cardboard box over a regular mouse trap to keep chickens, dogs, cats from getting in the trap. Cut a small entrance so only a small critter like a mouse can get to the trap. You could secure the box to the floor with a screw or such.
You can set several traps in one place if it's a frequent area for mice. They will get caught right next to each other, they are not very smart.
I use the Victor traps with what looks like a piece of yellow cheese as the trigger. You can position the trigger for F-firm or S-sensative. Looke closely on the yellow cheese like trigger to see the F or S marking.
Dave

My chickens would make short work of a card board box and then get them self's into what ever trap I had in the box

 

[moresmoke]

That animal is called a Stoat, Ermine,Weasle very good to be friends with. You are blessed, they are friendly and eat mice.

Wife’s prior cat brought one in the house one night. Went to see what was screeching in the living room at 2 AM. It was a weasel, and it wasn’t the least bit friendly. Had to capture the dang thing and evict it.

 

[wore out]

Wife’s prior cat brought one in the house one night. Went to see what was screeching in the living room at 2 AM. It was a weasel, and it wasn’t the least bit friendly. Had to capture the dang thing and evict it.

Must have been a wimpy weasel or a heckuva tough cat, LOL!

 

[Mcrafty1]

I tried some bucket ones,not as good as I was hoping for.I use the electric traps.Dab a little peanut butter inside,close the lid,and hit the switch.You will hear the batteries charging up the capacitor.There are 2 little metal plates on the floor inside,The mouse heads for the peanut butter,walks over the first plate,and when his front legs hit the second plate with his back legs still on the first plate he becomes a conductor.A light will blink after the capacitor has been discharged.I have taken to putting a rubber band around the whole thing.The top opens up to shake the mouse out.It has a couple of diverters in there,so he can't go straight in or back straight out.Trying to wiggle around those diverters will make the mouse hunch up a little,and when he does he can pop the lid up a little.That kills the power.I've bought them at different places over the years,but Tractor supply has them right here in town.

I like the idea of instant kill, even with mice....Call me a softy but the idea of dropping into a container filled with liquid and no way of escape and swimming around until I'm too exhausted to continue and forced to take that first breath of liquid as opposed to air just doesn't seem to be something I would want to inflict on anything. Especially when there's way's to do it far more humanely. As they say, to each his own.

 

[teddy52food]

My chickens would make short work of a card board box and then get them self's into what ever trap I had in the box

Just use some scrap lumber & build a crate over it. Could have a nesting box on top for them to lay eggs too. Leave a few small holes in the bottom sides for the mice to get in.

 

[Mcrafty1]

That animal is called a Stoat, Ermine,Weasle very good to be friends with. You are blessed, they are friendly and eat mice.

I think they also kill chickens...or so I've been told.

 

[wore out]

I think they also kill chickens...or so I've been told.

THANKFULLY, that's NOT an issue in my shop!

 

[stdsch40]

I think they also kill chickens...or so I've been told.

I really doubt that they kill chickens. Might eat some eggs, not sure about that either. I've had a few Ermines living around my place, they were friendly to me, kept the mice away, caused no damage and played in the snow. I read up on them and they have a very interesting mystique about them. Sometimes they want you to see them, most times nope.

 

[rustred]

I think they also kill chickens...or so I've been told.

You bet weasels kill chickens. They suck the blood out and leave the chicken.

 

[farmallsandcoops]

I use bucket traps. Have had up 5 at a time in there. Each morning check trap and if there are occupants, I take off lid, take to hydrant, put 4-5 inches of water in. Walk away. Come back in 10-15 mins. and they are history. Water and expired mice get tossed in the field. Put lid back on and ready to go. Had a major mouse problem in old poultry building where the goose and guinea are and with food out for them, it was free choice for mice. I caught 25 in the first week. Another 5 or 6 since then. I will use the Victor traps in the house, but got the bucket traps off amazon and wished I'd have done it years ago.

 

[Mcrafty1]

You bet weasels kill chickens. They suck the blood out and leave the chicken.

That's what I've been told, you can tell if it was a weasel by two little punctures into their juggler vein.

 

[Mcrafty1]

That animal is called a Stoat, Ermine,Weasle very good to be friends with. You are blessed, they are friendly and eat mice.

Weasel in the summer Ermine in the winter. Don't ask me why but they are.

 

[tall german]

We’re trying to one of those 5 gallon bucket traps. How successful have any of you guys been using them????

I haven't logged in for a while so I missed the beginning of this thread about a 5 gallon mouse trap so here's what I do. Where ever you have a mouse problem, set a 5 gallon pail with an inch or 2 of shelled corn in the bottom. Then set a yard stick against the top of the pail and the other end on the ground and shut off the light and walk away. The mice will crawl up the yardstick and jump in to get the shell corn. When they do, of course they can't get out. When you revisit the site and find a mouse in the pail, go find a cat and put it in the pail with the mouse. They will of course catch the mouse for a good meal. Besides getting rid of the mouse, it keeps the cat interested in "moussing" because it makes it a challenge. Also, you don't kill other animals with the antifreeze. Finally, it helps squelch your sadistic streak knowing that the mouse got to be a just desert for the cat.