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Mice trapping
#6217968
04/15/18 10:49 AM
04/15/18 10:49 AM
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NC, Pisgha forest
Zach aka trapper
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Hey yall hope everyone is well, I work for a farm in my area its a larger farm for here 3000 acres agricultural land, we grow celery corn peppers and so on, any way at the grain storage area we have a large mouse problem, they were poisoning before I got there, I asked them to stop using poison and to let me take care of it. Now I have to succeed can any one help with methods to catch lots of mice?I also am planning on freezing and grinding them all after I get enough.
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Re: Mice trapping
[Re: Zach aka trapper]
#6218044
04/15/18 11:48 AM
04/15/18 11:48 AM
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CGilliam
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Shawn Woods has tested about a million mouse traps on YouTube and I doubt any are better than that rolling log over bucket one. Make me wish I had mice.
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Re: Mice trapping
[Re: Tweed]
#6218053
04/15/18 11:57 AM
04/15/18 11:57 AM
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WI - Wisconsin
AJE
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What do you like for bait/lure for the bucket traps? peanut butter
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Re: Mice trapping
[Re: Zach aka trapper]
#6218445
04/15/18 06:57 PM
04/15/18 06:57 PM
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NC, Pisgha forest
Zach aka trapper
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Thank you everyone I will try the rolling trap I will be targeting canines cats and beaver mostly. But would love to get a weasel. And a skunk never had either.
I have been doing some damage control and I've got 9 ground hogs 3 muskrat and 2 beaver, we have permit for rats and groundhogs. I froze all whole imeditly for bait.
How do I trap them live can I use the bucket with no water?
I also hate poison wen they use it there's a lot of dead cats then sick and dead yotes and so on, these grain silos are in a field basically and are hunted hard by all predators as soon as the sun goes down
Last edited by Zach aka trapper; 04/15/18 07:00 PM.
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Re: Mice trapping
[Re: Zach aka trapper]
#6218464
04/15/18 07:22 PM
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Michigan
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Law Dog MGGC where do you get those?
Trapping is easy you say? You try getting your target animal to step in a 3 inch area of its whole territory.
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Re: Mice trapping
[Re: Zach aka trapper]
#6218482
04/15/18 07:40 PM
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Northeast Wisconsin
NE Wildlife
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You don't have secondary poisoning if your using the right rodenticides legally! If your looking for bait to use
I see why you would want to trap them but if you want to actually control and maintain a low population for the farmer then
Rodenticides are the way to go.
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Re: Mice trapping
[Re: Zach aka trapper]
#6218489
04/15/18 07:44 PM
04/15/18 07:44 PM
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NC, Pisgha forest
Zach aka trapper
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I understand what yall are saying ,I don't no what poison was used before I got there. I'm just hoping to take as many as I can now when the silos are low and its not a big deal at harvest time ill have to use poison I reckon. But want to make as much fresh ground mice as I can along with ground hog.
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Re: Mice trapping
[Re: Pressure9pa]
#6218628
04/15/18 09:42 PM
04/15/18 09:42 PM
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Central, SD
Law Dog
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Law Dog is right these work great. Got almost 2 gallons of mice in the last month running two of them.  Not sure I've seen that before. Would you mind describing construction and baiting? YouTube "500 year old mouse trap" I made mine from coil type springs you can build it with what you have laying around.
Was born in a Big City Will die in the Country OK with that!
Jerry Herbst
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Re: Mice trapping
[Re: Zach aka trapper]
#6218723
04/15/18 11:12 PM
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NC, Pisgha forest
Zach aka trapper
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Thanks for everything yall
I want them alive so I can freeze imeditly after dispatch so when I grind they will be fresh, they tend to be a little bloated by mornin in the regular snap traps.
I will be trying the minnow trap and bucket tomorrow, ill let yall no how it goes.
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Re: Mice trapping
[Re: Zach aka trapper]
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04/15/18 11:27 PM
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Law Dog
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The string is the biggest pain I use a fine wire with a hook to pull the string through the holes, the blocking strings should be a little off of center to block the path of the mouse so they chew it.
Was born in a Big City Will die in the Country OK with that!
Jerry Herbst
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Re: Mice trapping
[Re: Zach aka trapper]
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04/16/18 09:21 PM
04/16/18 09:21 PM
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Made one like Law Dog but single hole and made a bump trigger. Used wire leader for a noose. Worked good on the two I caught.
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Re: Mice trapping
[Re: Hern]
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04/17/18 09:39 AM
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Law Dog...use a long needle for string. I made one also...works great   Those things are too cool. I watched the video. Hern, what are you using for bait? I was thinking maybe a smear type bait and rubbing it on the strings....? Also, what did you use for springs? I bet BG springs would work well
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Re: Mice trapping
[Re: joepennanti]
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04/22/18 10:09 AM
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This one looks feasible too: A Bowl Of Peanut Oil Catches 7 Mice In 1 Night - Motion Camera Footage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxxFNkNf6q8If you got a few bowls of similar dimensions to the one in the vid, and a gallon of cooking oil, and it's not a hassle to transport those items to/from where the mice are... might work well. In the vid the captured mice are washed - he had to appease the PETA crowd. But for bait purposes they can be frozen with the oil on their coat, might even enhance it as bait. One caveat: @ 2:25 he says that he usually catches wild Deer Mice but that these are House Mice... I'm thinking wild mice would be strong/agile enough to jump from a shallow bowl. Might have to improvise there a bit. I might like that better than the rolling log or my foam plate traps. Will give that one a go! Foam plate trap- https://vimeo.com/188676779
Last edited by wildflights; 04/22/18 10:10 AM.
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