I was wanting to try and make some mouse bait and was wondering how and where to catch larger numbers of mice. I already trapped out the shed and the cabin. We live out in the swamp and have a couple different field types.

About how many does one need to make a pint?

Thank you for any advice.

Jerry Jr.

Brush piles

Do you use regular mouse traps? Or is there some other way that you catch them? Lots of brush piles, gonna be even more when I start cutting all these dead ash trees.

Thanks for the replies.

Snap traps for me. I like coil springs on rat

If u can a livestock feeding operation near you that's another good location. One that feeds a lot of grain.

Jerry, Yes Sir just hit on something. Set all around the horse and dog food.

I like a repeating trap like this. Still gotta be emptied regularly to keep the mice fresh, but the blue bucket like this one is especially effective!

im a snap trap guy myself . Any place away from predators produces higher yields!FYI start out blind then use bait! this is my favorite style of catchs

2-1 gallon freezer bags will make you about a gallon ice cream bucket of ground mice.

So, if you fill up 1 gallon freezer bag with mice, you should be about where you are looking to get.

thanks al I was going to mention that a gallon ziplock bag will yield roughly a quart of processed meat

Seems like a lot of work to me. When actually the use of the urine soaked nest Is a lot more effective then the ground up mouse.

Lol. I would, but with all the cats she has I doubt there is a mouse within a hundred yards of her place! I was thinking about putting some weasel boxes around the chicken coop but she said that she puts poison under it.

Thanks guys. I got a ways to go. I don't even have a quart bag filled yet. I guess I need to start long lining!

Do you guys tie your traps off to anything in case something larger than a mouse finds its way into the mouse trap?

Super Stakes are required

i just put 3 handfulls of cornmeal under a old sheet of plywood in a good spot.about 2 weeks i'll get all i need and i freeze and use whole.

PCR2 that is a darn good method I use old tin and 4x4 runners with a quart of soybeans for voles. Milo or corn for mice. And yes jerry I staple trot line string to mine and use gutter spikes if I trap a brushpile or fence row. Even that's no guarantee! I prefer pearlings on a metal building staple the string to the pearling. caught mouse dangles keeps em from getting as trap shy!

you correct joe its hard to believe what you can and do catch in snap traps! Its a eye opener to catch a 3' black snake in one! lol but you know your on target when your snapping snakes! I was surprised by the sheer amount of toads I catch in them out in the rough stuff.

First of all a urine soaked mouse nest(mouse urine)has a lot more odor than ground up mice. And It's a lot more natural. I only use It when trapping canines. A chunk of the nest shoved down the hole or placed under something works well.

Availability simple. Any pet store will gladly give you mouse bedding or like I did I just got a whole bunch of mice from a UW research facility. Then I just raised my own nest builders.
I even bottled up live mice with a bit of nesting and a section of apple. The apple gives them something to eat and gives them moisture. Punch a few holes In the jar and bury It on location. Did I catch any canines using this method? I did but It was more of a pain In the butt then just using the urine soaked nesting material.

The other thing Is a dirt hole Is not a natural looking set. I had better luck just digging the hole then shoving the nesting material down In It. Then covering It with dirt with just a bit of the nest showing.

I never tried It but I bet It would work good for mink.

tlguy that is exactly what I use. 5 gallon bucket with peanut butter and about 3 inches of water in the bucket. Don't take long to take care of a lot of mice.

How do you catch lots of mice?

Easy, put out a few weasel boxes.

Backroadsarcher, we use them at our hunting camp. Recently caught 9 mice in a week using that method. I usually add some dish soap or Lysol to the water to lessen the smell and keep the water from freezing in low temps. Still freezes if it gets real cold.

Tlguy - try some antifreeze. Works for us.

Please pm me the details. Just looking to get some bait for me and a buddy.

there is some nights I can get 6 - 10 mice a night. When the weather starts getting colder they like to move inside of the outbuildings.

Jerry don't be worried about cats my dad has a passel of them and I one nite I caught over 100 mice in his machine shop and dog kennel. Big round bales are mice magnets you most generally catch those boone and crocket deer mice around them!FYI don't waste your money on tincats mice are very cannibalistic! my best in a tincat was 7 one extra fat live one 5 skeletons and one half eaten! Grain bins are another hot spot. As stated its getting cooler they will move to structure

Grain bins around here with a little grain left in the bottom are like something out of a horror movie around here. Especially when it starts getting cooler. Never seen so many mice in my life!

Ryan ive got lots of horrible memories cleaning grain bins and have a mouse run up your leg inside your britches! I'm not much of a dancer but once a mouse gets above the knee im like a ballerina!And yes I can scream like a 3rd grade girl!!

TONY- I showed off some moves this afternoon. I was checking my traps in the outhouse at the cabin. I had one. There is a nest on top of the non functioning light in there. I thought that I would check and see if there were any left. Turns out there was a young one. It sat on a wire next to the rafter. I figured I could grab it by the tail and throw it on the floor and kill it. I still think I could but the darn thing decided that it would jump on my shoulder, run around my arm, down my side and then go for the door.

Truth be told, it was better than dancing with yellow jackets!

yes jerry yellow jackets are the devil!!

Got a story about a jd 450 dozer, Dad and a short legged jack russel.

Not sure how many times Dad got tagged but that never bothered him but the dog was down for about 3-4 days. She only moved to eat, pee or poop. She did that all at the same time. Dad said the swarm was doing their best on him and that little Pearl dog was just a biting at them. He threw her off by the house. Probably saved her. She wouldn't leave his side lest he did that.

The only other time she would leave him was if I went out hunting. I could walk close to a mile with no snow and that darn dog would find me and go running 50 yards out in front of me.

She did have a little quirk. If it did not run she did not care. Seen her check some briar bushes, I bet she touched noses with this rabbit. This thing was so scared I couldn't kick it to make it move.

Funny how the one you hated the most (20 years ago) is now the one that I miss the most. Heck I would let her chew on the rest of the gun now if I could follower her again just one more time.

nice story jerry dogs can really find there way into a persons soul! My father was bitten badly by honey bees as a teen ager. Gram ma picked over 100 stingers out then the hospital got another 100 more. Family said he was a very sick boy for over a week. Now even a sweat bee bite will make him swell up like a dog tick! Needless to say I get the burden of dealing with all the bitting bugs he encounters now. I m like a pro wasp & hornet assasin

My wife traps them in the chicken coop and puts them in the freezer in my shed.Couple days ago she caught four.i have four sandwich bags full.im going to use them whole.

Goggle mice for sale.

Looks like you can buy a bag of 100 frozen mice for $35.00. If I was going to make mouse bait It's the way I would go. Dump the bag of mice In the blender and your good to go.LOL

Recon those are tame mice? ive been considering building a mouse condo to have mice anytime I want/need them but im wanting deer mice

I was going to ask the question about buying them offline. I can only imagine that it’s how a lot of bait makers do it. I couldn’t imagine catching enough mice for mass production.

If you’re serious about buying them, which ones would you buy and which ones would you not buy?

I have no Idea on what mice to buy. But a mouse Is a mouse I would think. And once ground up and tainted a bit I don't think It's a issue. Looks like you can buy the new born ones also. No hair to deal with. LOl

Buy a few mice and grow your own bait stock. It won't take long before your going to have to add on more cage space. I did It for awhile and It's pretty easy.

I catch packrats for one commercial lure makers. So I know not all buy captive raised rodents.

Most certainly not trying to discredit anyone’s business or offend any of the wonderful bait makers, I just couldn’t imagine being able to procure enough mice to produce such a big quantity to satisfy demand.

Now that I think of it after Beav’s comment, maybe some raise their own. I’m just wondering how a little guy like me, who isn’t really looking for a divorce, but would like to play with baits, would go about getting enough mice to give it a try.

Buy them online.