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Voles in vegetable garden #7313579
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Been gone for two weeks and just noticed vole activity. They ate pounds of carrots last year. Any one of good ways to get rid of them?

Re: Voles in vegetable garden [Re: Ole] #7313589
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Dig in a coffee can and 1 inch water for a swimming pool with a plywood cover
snap traps under a flower pot keeps the birds out
we had the same problem last year

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Any particular bait better than another? Plywood cover with a hole in the middle for them to get in?

Re: Voles in vegetable garden [Re: Ole] #7313686
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Find there runs and holes and place a victor professional mouse
Trap on each side of the hole and cover with a price of gutter or pvc cut in half over the top
When they leave the hole On there run they have no choice but to run over that big yellow pan



Re: Voles in vegetable garden [Re: Ole] #7313778
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Originally Posted by Ole
Any particular bait better than another? Plywood cover with a hole in the middle for them to get in?


Peanut butter works very well for voles as bait.

Voles are very easy to blind set. They make open topped runs in tall grass, that are slightly depressed in the ground, that are easy to find. If you put a mouse trap in that run, or anything else, they will run right over it.

Keith

Re: Voles in vegetable garden [Re: Ole] #7313779
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Yup blind sets and carrots jammed in the bait holder smeared with PB. gotta set for em as soon as you can and keep on em.

Re: Voles in vegetable garden [Re: Ole] #7313828
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Zinc phosphide coated carrots tucked into every hole will take care of them quick.


My fear of moving stairs is escalating!
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Thank you all. Heading to hardware for traps tomorrow. Buggers.

Re: Voles in vegetable garden [Re: Ole] #7313858
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Will the same work for chipmunks.

Re: Voles in vegetable garden [Re: Ole] #7313886
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Charles the larger Victor trap for chipmunks. with the yellow square pan
peanut butter/bacon fat/rolled oats for the bait mix

Re: Voles in vegetable garden [Re: KeithC] #7313891
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Originally Posted by KeithC
Originally Posted by Ole
Any particular bait better than another? Plywood cover with a hole in the middle for them to get in?


Peanut butter works very well for voles as bait.

Voles are very easy to blind set. They make open topped runs in tall grass, that are slightly depressed in the ground, that are easy to find. If you put a mouse trap in that run, or anything else, they will run right over it.

Keith


Caught 162 last year in my yard using this method plus the peanut butter on the mouse trap. I set the traps perpendicular to the run ways. You can also place the trap at the hole entrance.

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Re: Voles in vegetable garden [Re: Ole] #7313901
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Salt is the key factor for attraction with the bait

Re: Voles in vegetable garden [Re: Ole] #7313902
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I forgot to mention to anchor your mouse traps. Most predators eat voles and they often will carry your traps away to eat the voles somewhere else, if they can.

Keith

Re: Voles in vegetable garden [Re: Ole] #7313904
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Crows are the worst in picking up trapped voles in traps after the second trap foxes learn to step on the trap and lift the mouse out and go down the line for snack time.

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