OT Mice

[Delvaughn]

Went into my camper today and got a big surprise. Mice have been VERY busy. How they get into the cabints and places is something. My question is does any one have a good way to keep mice out. Been told moth balls work, has anybody tryed them?

 

[Dave H (MI)]

Only sure way is persistant trapping. They were running this place for a while but I got a hold of four traps and filled them every night for several nights. Then it was over but I kept the traps baited. I kill one a couple times a year.

 

[Anonymous-0]

Farmers in Iowa say that mothballs do not work when they put in the cabs of machinery stored for the winter. They have said the best deterant is Bounce dryer sheets.

 

[souNdguy]

keeping them out is hard.

best to put out blue blocks and just dispatch them..

soundguy

 

[old]

Years ago I had big problems with mice and rats and pack rats where the worst. Well then some one dumped a female cat off on me and after about a year no more problems with mice rats etc. Doesn't matter where I look where the mice once where a problem I no longer have a problem. But the down side is that the cats are starting to get to the point that I have 2 many of them but at least I have no mice. mole, or rat problems

 

[Anonymous-0]

Knew a feller that simplyy stttored his pet BOA in the camper. CHEAPER than a dog house. YIP

 

[JohnC IND]

When they really got bad in my shop, here's what I did. (No pets in or near the unheated shop) I took a 5-gallon bucket and punched two holes in the rim opposite one another. I took a Pepsi can and punched a hole in the center of the top, and one in the center of the bottom. Threaded a wire coat hanger through the holes in the can, and through the holes in the rim of the bucket. Bent the coat hanger with pliers to keep the Pepsi can in the center of the mouth of the bucket. Leaned some scrap lumber on the bucket from the shop floor to the bucket rim. Poured about 3" of antifreeze in the bottom of the bucket. Motor oil would work as well. Liberally buttered the Pepsi can with outdated peanut butter. The can will spin freely on the coat hanger. The mice climb the boards, hop onto the Pepsi can to get the peanut butter, which rolls on the wire, dumping them into the antifreeze. You just have to keep buttering the can and emptying the carcasses out of the bottom of the bucket. One setting lasts for months unless the bodies get too deep in the bucket...

 

[Ultradog MN]

All good advice below.
I found that a good hot fire was effective for getting rid of mice.
Load the camper with a lot of downed tree limbs and other wood then pour a couple of gallons of diesel fuel down into the roof vent.
What's left you can rake up and put into a couple of trash cans. I saw NO evidence of mice after that. Keep a six pack handy in case the fire gets out of control.

 

[Greybeard - PA]

Used to live in central Ohio near Plain City. A friend who still farms told me that his next neighbor sold his dairy heard and went to just crop farming. In the next year rats swarmed over his farm from rhe defunct dairy/feed operation, when their feed supply dried up. Ate all the wiring off his combine and grain truck before they moved on.

It can get pretty bad . . .

Around here in PA, I just use the bait blocks. Haven't seen a mouse in the past three years.

 

[Anonymous-0]

OUTTA WARRANTY propane leak. The bank to collect the "ASHES".

 

[Farmer(Ga)]

Get some (just one bite) and put it out, That will work. James

 

[Dave H (MI)]

IF that is something that poisons them, I have been down that road. AND, I might add, am not fond of the smell of rotting mice in the walls of my house. BTDT......Dave

 

[Dan from WI]

Have to make sure there is no food in the camper or even traces or odors of it. The thing I used that helped was a spray for ants that I sprayed on the tires, jacks, electrical cord and anything that came close to the ground. Have to re-apply every few months and have not had a problem since. We have two lazy cats that could give a hoot about mice. Mom feeds them treats all the time and they only hunt for sport...

 

[Delvaughn]

Thanks for all the good ideas. I like the pepsi can idea. Next year I will make sure ALL the box food is out of the camper. Thanks again

 

[Anonymous-0]

That fella that I was referring to about the BOA was actually a customer of MULLER(tm), and I got out there, only once to check a Factory service call. He also said that he was AMISH from AMANA, IOWA!

John.

 

[BearGap]

We had mice getting into the farm truck during the winter for years. They would build huge nests in the heater box and chew up everything they could find. Finnaly took advice from someone on one of these forums and put a couple of cotton balls inside the cab, tucked into heater vents, and soaked with peppermint oil. No mice since.

=Vic=
Bear Gap, PA

 

[Badger bob]

Soundguy where are you buying blue blocks? the local farmers elavator used to handel them but then thay stopped. its the best rat mouse bate i ever seen. thanks Bob

 

[wfdiaff]

I come from a big family of camper owners. We all use dryer sheets to keep the mice out. They are cheap and smell good as a bonus. Put them everywhere. Up down in and out of all cabinets and storage holes.

 

[teddy52food]

Up in northern Mn. the neighboring hunters used them in their shack. It didn't do any good. The mice used them for nesting when the weather got cold.