[Shop-talk] Mice infestation

[Tim]

Use crunchy peanut butter and force chunks a peanut into the curl on the bait holder. Like Eric said, you have to make them work for it. 

In the past I have noticed that the traps have been cleaned out and not sprung. It turned out to be small juvenile mice that were too small to set off the trap. Wedging peanut chunks into the bait holder solved that.

Tim


---- Eric Murray <ericm at lne.com> wrote: 

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On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 03:31:32PM -0700, Steve Hammatt Mount Vernon WA USA wrote:
> We've gone with the peanut butter route, but no luck.

What's "no luck"?

Traps snapped but no critter, or bait eaten but trap
not snaped, or trap untouched?


For 1, the traps not in the right place, or you have the wrong size critter
for your trap.  (a mouse trap doesn't kill a rat it just gives him a wedgie)
For #2, the trigger or bail is rusty or dirty. Easier to just
 get a new one.  Or you didn't stick the PB down inside the "tube"
in the trigger. You need to make them work for it.  
For #3, the trap is in the wrong place.  Or the critters
prefer organic and you gave them Jif.

I've used organic recently but when I trapped mice for
field studies (using modified snap traps taped to PVC pipes
to capture but not kill) we used commercial PB with success.


Eric
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