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How do you catch lots of mice? #6328123
09/18/18 05:03 PM
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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.


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Re: How do you catch lots of mice? [Re: Jerry Jr.] #6328237
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Brush piles

Re: How do you catch lots of mice? [Re: Jerry Jr.] #6328288
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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.


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Re: How do you catch lots of mice? [Re: Jerry Jr.] #6328296
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Snap traps for me. I like coil springs on rat

Re: How do you catch lots of mice? [Re: Jerry Jr.] #6328297
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If u can a livestock feeding operation near you that's another good location. One that feeds a lot of grain.

Re: How do you catch lots of mice? [Re: Jerry Jr.] #6328301
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Jerry, Yes Sir just hit on something. Set all around the horse and dog food.


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Re: How do you catch lots of mice? [Re: Jerry Jr.] #6328303
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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!


Re: How do you catch lots of mice? [Re: Jerry Jr.] #6328425
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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


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Re: How do you catch lots of mice? [Re: Jerry Jr.] #6328632
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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.

Re: How do you catch lots of mice? [Re: Jerry Jr.] #6328647
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thanks al I was going to mention that a gallon ziplock bag will yield roughly a quart of processed meat


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Re: How do you catch lots of mice? [Re: Jerry Jr.] #6328708
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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.


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Re: How do you catch lots of mice? [Re: TheBig1] #6328710
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Originally Posted By: TheBig1
Jerry, Yes Sir just hit on something. Set all around the horse and dog food.


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.


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Re: How do you catch lots of mice? [Re: TONY.F] #6328717
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Originally Posted By: yukonal
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.


Originally Posted By: TONY.F
thanks al I was going to mention that a gallon ziplock bag will yield roughly a quart of processed meat


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?

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Re: How do you catch lots of mice? [Re: Jerry Jr.] #6328759
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Originally Posted By: Jerry Jr.


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


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Re: How do you catch lots of mice? [Re: Jerry Jr.] #6328783
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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.









Re: How do you catch lots of mice? [Re: Jerry Jr.] #6328815
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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!


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Re: How do you catch lots of mice? [Re: Jerry Jr.] #6328822
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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.


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Re: How do you catch lots of mice? [Re: Jerry Jr.] #6328829
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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.


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Re: How do you catch lots of mice? [Re: Jerry Jr.] #6328940
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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.

Re: How do you catch lots of mice? [Re: Jerry Jr.] #6328943
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How do you catch lots of mice?

Easy, put out a few weasel boxes. wink


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