Mice and rats are dangerous when they're poisoned & their waste becomes toxic. I really appreciate you sharing these non-toxic ways to eliminate them. Great video!
We always leave the hood open on the tractor and riding mower in the barn and in ten years have never had an issue with wiring being eaten! Apparently they only like to build a nest 🪹 in enclosed areas! 👍🏻☮✌🏻
This is a thorough and helpful video and just in time. I have a couple of buildings on my property that store my atv, tractor, and tools. Always the mouse droppings are everywhere. Today I’m heading out there armed with baking soda and jiffy mix in a 2:1 ratio. I’ll clean up all the droppings, see what happens afterward, and in a few weeks will report back with my results. Thank you for this video and your presentation style is fantastic.
great video. The bucket remained an arm rest and product stand.( I have caught a many rat and mouse in buckets filled with water and canola oil & floating sunflower seeds ) My next batch I'll double up on the baking soda
Thomas's wife here. I enjoyed your presentation style Thank you for the information. Also, thanks to the viewer who mentioned the feral cats. We have feral cats and bats around our neighborhood and they do a good job keeping away the unwelcome wildlife. 😊
my ferals are too well fed apparently we are having a problem but also they are tearing down houses and rebuilding and I also expect that is part of the problem.
@poetmaggie1 Yeah, I livecin a Midwest city with empty & abandoned homes all around me. Someone came in & bulldozed the interior of the place next door, then boarded it up, but the rats came to my place & I've been fighting them ever since! I get by on Social Security, so I can't afford an exterminator and my city only will treat the empty houses, if you own, they expect you to deal with them yourself!
Thank you for putting together a thorough coverage on this topic. I had seen an old vid combining b. soda and cornmeal and you covered them all. With such a simple recipe I’m wondering why cities have such a problem. The blasted things get into engine of rider all-the-time and will need to get peppermint oil out for that and feed them. They already ate wires AGAIN😡 and we use Tom Cat plastic traps, but must have not checked them frequently enough. Mice are SO destructive! And Yes, carry disease and smell. Oh the mess they can make and costly. I wonder if it works for voles. I know we used peanut butter in early spring on rat traps and caught two in one trap. Those things have got to go! We’ve never ever had them before and they ate spring bulbs.🤬. We reduced the huge population of gophers with rat traps and celery leaf. Like you said they can return once they repopulate. Thanks again! I took notes! New subscriber here.
I bought an electric box which attaches under the hood of the car. It runs on a battery and prevents the rats from chewing the battery cables or any hoses. I purchased it on Amazon.
Mice got into the wiring on my furnace years ago. The electrician who fixed it suggested wiping some diesel fuel on the wires. They never touched them again.
I have used vitamin D3 they make their own and OD on it this worked great with one of worst infestations I've had but the rats seem to be not be affected and we as humans take this in micrograms they also are onion, limes and lemons. I was surprised also ate 7 cubes of mouse poison from dollar store this hasn't happened with mice.I will try so of the other things you have mentioned. The D3 I had great results with mice and is not toxic to humans .And non nocturnal animals as far as I know ask a Vet to make sure. Thanks
A science teacher at my middle school once suggested using bacon grease and synthetic sponges. The rodents eat the sponge and it becomes indigestible, leading to the same dire consequences for our buck tooth friends. What do you think?
Thanks for all of the great tips! We used to buy bait blocks by the bucket, but they're not available to the public here in Canada anymore. Now you can only buy a trap that comes with 1 or 2 blocks. So if you still have a problem afterwards, you have to buy new traps each time.
@ZenGardenOasis. I think it had to do with some people not being responsible with them. I know someone that was throwing bait all down the alley to to get rid of rats. When I challenged her saying cats could get into it, she said there's no cats around here & my response was, yeah, not anymore. She was actually covering the packages with peanut butter to entice the rats.
Great ideas. Down side of live traps IS you only catch 1. Mice always come in pairs. So it can be more expensive that way and moving them to a new area you are causing your issue upon other people in that area.
@@henrybutchy3242 Victor traps are hard to empty an reset compared to some others available on amazon. I got black plastic snap traps hat you can empty and reset easily without getting your fingers germy.
@@ZenGardenOasis. I came to say the same thing - a trap door that closes itself with a counterweight. One thing to watch out for is to avoid onions in the bait. Sausages often contains onions to some extent so using sausage as bait could be ineffective.
I found one drawback with the muffin / baking soda mix. I had rats that were so well fed, they'd only nibble a little bit on the mix. I saw this using a trail cam. When I trapped them, they were FAT. So they were getting plenty of food somewhere else in the area and the bait was a small dessert. Had to add some some powdered peanut butter and sugar to the mix.
This is a great list, thank you! The mice are on to the snap traps, haha. Oh, and I live in a very old port city, and asian rats are smaller than regular old Norway rats that are in all ports. Growing up near the grain elevators that loaded onto the ships, I can guarantee that "rats the size of a cat" is NOT an exaggeration. :)
In the Caribbean I was told that coffee beans left around, would kill rats and mice, they are attracted to the smell then eat them, now I was told that what happens is the beans expand and mess with their digestive system and they eventually die, but I wonder if it has to do with the caffeine in the beans or the tannins.
If those sticky traps get flipped over onto your carpet there's instructions on how to clean it up. Don't even waste your time. Put it on a piece of foam board you can get at the dollar store. Center it on a piece2x the size of the foam board and tape the edges to the floor or carpet out of direct sunlight. I've tried turpentine to get that sticky trap glue up, and peanut butter. Put a chair over it and replace the carpet when you have extra money.
Thanks for those options. Previously I used peanut butter with boric acid and stuck it under the cabinets for the roached. I don't know if the rat is still in my kitchen, but I plan to use the peanut butter, sugar, flour and baking soda. Thank you for all these suggestions.
If the traps/baits are laid out inside, do they die inside , in the walls, or go off to die? Just curious if I'd have to find the dead bodies before they decompose somewhere under cabinets or , appliances etc. and of course start to stink the place up.
What a fabulous, useful video! Thank you SO much!!! I live in a mostly rural area with some wooded acreage within 80' of my house and yes, every Fall, mice try to invade. I had a Black snake move into my garage one year, and s/he helped greatly with a lot of them, but of course, the generations that succeeded come back, and I'm not willing to sacrifice the structure or wiring in my home to mercy. I love animals, but if it's me or them, I win. btw, I love the look of your greenhouse. I have a small barn whose siding is deteriorating and I'm wondering about how to refurbish it using whatever that material is.
Much to my spouse's chagrin I replaced the corrugated metal (tin) on the south side of our 40 x 50 storage barn with corrugated polycrilic product. Wall is 16 ft tall, but I only took the poly up to 8.5 feet tall. On the inside of the barn I used metal conduit to make a 8 x 20 ft frame tunnel greenhouse to hang reinforced heavy plastic sheeting on. I've had one issue in 30 years. A big whirlwind ripped a tree limb and flung it against my poly siding. I had to replace a few sheets that were cracked. Other than that it's been a great space to house my big container plants in winter. The huge unexpected bonus is it heats the whole spray-foam insulated barn up to 50+ degrees all winter. The forced air, propane heater salvaged from our house when we upgraded comes on only in the early morning hours. The massive concrete floor acts as a heat sink that stores heat all day and releases heat all night. The heater only runs when we have extended periods of cloudy weather. On cold winter days my greenhouse tunnel commonly hits 100°F in mid afternoon. The rest of the barn will be around 65° F on an average, sunny winter day. The poly made a dark dreary barn into such a delightful sunny space I built myself a 4 x 8 craft table inside. It's my favorite handy getaway from home - within 100 yds of my back door.
@@rt3box6tx74 I love that for you! My little barn is a 20X24 and does not have the luxury of a concrete floor, but I appreiate your enthusiasm for the polycarbonate. Thanks very much for your experience!
@SherryEllesson The lack of a concrete floor isn't a deal breaker. I'd rather have pea gravel. I've actually thought about putting down a heavy sheet of plastic to cover with pea gravel. Hope you find a satisfactory solution.
I relocated a big roof rat to a WalMart parking lot. It immediately ran to one of the bushy islands. A hawk saw this going on and swooped down and eventually found the rat in the brush. Mr Rat took an unscheduled flight lol
Baking soda, rodents can't belch or fart. Rats prefer wheat flour to White flower I found this out cuz they got into my house. Wheat flour sugar baking soda. Or if they're really finicky cornmeal, a little bit of sugar, baking soda
Please don’t pay attention to the trollish negative comments. I’ll bet the people who criticize have never made videos. You do you… if they don’t like it, they should move on! Thanks for the info!
@@danmcdonagh8924 probable the posts YOU don't get to see because either RUclips or ZGO had removed because of trolls like that danmcdonagh8924 person!
And they get into your vehicle engine. I would leave my garage door open just a bit. Mice moved in and chewed up wires in my vehicle engine. I ended up costing me over $600 to fix. And because my car was new i had to wait almost a week for them to get the parts fedex. I put peppermint oil around my tires and around the garage.
I use the powdered peanut butter, powdered butter, with some amount of one or more of the baking soda - super washing soda - borax . Might add some potato flakes when they go bad. Just depends on what I have around and what animals I know could possibly have access to these mixes.
@@davidbrewer7937Tail dipped in white paint you can tell easily. I heard it from a guy who was blasted with rodents from street excavation and a neighbour who had a lot of dogs (& they left the dog food bags out). He said you have to go far or they will come back. Garbage dump likely less chance they will want to return it's a mountain of old food and clothing to nest in and a million cousins to visit.
Raccoons can return but small mammals will only venture a few hundred yards when relocated to a strange area. They do not expose themselves anymore than needed, You watched too much "American Tail" growing up.
As for poison I say a big no. In the early 60's my puppy Nicky got into the neighbor's barn and ate their rat poison. It was a horrible death for my dog. It is a very painful memory to this day. It happened during the Christmas season. We rushed him to the vet but he couldn't save him.
I have tried plaster of Paris. I have tried cement. All things like potato flakes, cornmeal, flour, sugar simply ATTRACT MORE RODENTS. I'm not exaggerating.
We used to put the Decon boxes in our attic. Mom would put a heaping tablespoon of plaster of Paris in and mix it in and we put a dish of water with it. They usually didn’t get far. Worked on mice and rats and chipmunks and squirrels.
Baking soda push down a drain, poor vinegar on it after the fizz slows down Chase with boiling water, rolling boiling is the best, and you just cleaned your drains. Safe naturally and won't hurt your pipes or septic system
All you are doing is melting the clog with boiling water the baking soda and vinegar are just for your entertainment as when they are mixed the solution is neutralized and the foaming does nothing.
I have a large population of ferrel cats who seem to increase in population every spring. I also plant mint in my gardens-with their roots contained in pots. I didn’t notice any rats or mice during my last gardening season-which recently ended. Do you think all of the aforementioned is enough to deter the rodents from my area? 🙏🏾 Thanks.
I use sticky traps placed around the basement walls and to prevent stepping on them I Duct tape two large food cans together to make s tunnel. I put a yellow strip of tape on one side to indicate up and makes it easier to see if they've moved. These things catch a lot of crickets too. On the outside i have 4 large Tomcat Bait Stations on each side of my house on outside and can use commercial poison or the homade kind.
@SingleFileCooks Slightly curve them before peeling off the protective paper, when you're happy with the fit, peel and slide inside the food can tunnel. I've got several spread around the walls of my basement and have caught several mice, a small snake and legions of crickets. Since I have 4 large Tomcat Bait Stations on each side of my house, thankfully rarely mice get in, but they still catch a lot of crickets. If the sticky traps haven't caught anything and have lost some stickiness, I spread a thin film of Mineral Spirits, leave it alone and the excess solvent evaporates and revives the stickiness.
Thanks for the lesson - but I don’t want them running off and hiding to die and stinking up the house😵💫 how fast do the baking soda recipes work? Would it work to put it in a 5 gallon or smaller bucket and will they go in and die fast?
They return to the nest when they don't feel good. So as long as the nest is not in the house, you will not have issues. I have several bait stations because mice and rats run an easement behind our property where the weeds are too high for predators to get them. I prefer to get them before they get to the house. I can see when the bait has been eaten when I check them. Have not had a single mouse or rat die in the house.
A lot of good info, but can you imagine dying by bowl blockage, must be very painful. Those mice in the field can be used to eliminate ticks. Get cotton or dryer lint and treat with permethrin, let dry and put in tolet paper tubes and put the tubes where mice go, under brush, wood or rocks where it doesn't get wet. The mouse will use as nesting material. The mice and the off spring will be coated with permethrin and since they are the main source for picking up ticks, the ticks bite them and die off, over months the ticks nearly all die off
He explained that this is not the most humane way to take care of them, but he also mentioned that it works the most effective. You have to weigh that. Sometimes you have to be higher on the food chain.
Sounds really good idea and humane Daughter has Lyme disease Anything that gets rid of ticks has my support In the southwest I have read four corners disease comes from rodents Research it if you live there
Thank You for the info. The baking soda mix does not work with the rats i have. Not even DE. I bought "One Bite" ut worked. My neighbor was over ran with rats, nothing seemed to work. 28 rats later she is rat free as I am.
Does it kill them right away? If they were to escape back outside and a bird ears them, will the bird die? We used to have birds of prey but ppl were poisoning rats and the birds got ahold of them and died. It was sad to see 😢
Mice and rats aren’t animals - they’re pests! 😂😂 Thanks for the tips- does the cornmeal baking soda harm weasels? I caught one with my Tom Cat snap trap once but once I released him he was gone fast 💨
Humm. Mixing cement with peanut butter would cause the moisture in the peanut butter to set the cement and make it a solid. Does not take much moisture to set cement. I do like some of your ideas but this cement to peanut butter probably will not work.
Hi, glad you’ve made this video. I get mice coming in to house at this time of the year. If I use one of your mixes and lay it in my kitchen and the mice eat it, how long does it take to kill them and where do they go to die. Will I find the dead ones somewhere within the kitchen?
I think the jiffy brand has a key ingredient not found in other corn muffin mix; lard. I’ve used the pan brand corn muffin mix and not a touch. They love sunflower seeds in shell, just don’t know how to poison those so the mice will eat
I have not seen Strawberry quick in ages! When I left the states it was on the shelves both here in the EU and the states. Last year I was back in the states I could not find it at all. Here in the EU it disappeared about a decade ago. Tempted to see if the company still makes it here in the EU. The country I live in has a fetish for everything chocolate, probable reason why it’s no longer stocked, no demand for it. Nice greenhouse! A DIY project or from a kit? Don’t know if it’s true but in the Dark Ages in Europe the church associated cats with witchcraft and made great efforts to eliminate them. Well cats were also known to eliminate mice and rats. Without the cat population to control the rodents they multiplied exponentially and as we all know they were some of the principle carriers of the plague.
I used to love Strawberry Quick. I have had enough chocolate for a lifetime already. I haven't seen it in over a decade maybe over 15 years in Canada. Right about the same time "Mocha" became the big seller.
I tried this option, didn't work. They are also cautions, if the varmints digest it and don't feel well they won't eat more or if they observe their varmint critters they become suspicious. They also licked peanut butter off bait pellets and left the pellets. I went to heavy duty route and that took a solid 2 weeks for roof rats.
I’ve had good success with a small tilt live trap. After catching and leaving the mice in the trap for 24 hrs, I shook the mouse out of the trap and it was still alive but eventually the mice quit getting into the garage. Mice can communicate about the danger to other mice
You can also use a large bucket like the one you're leaning on with a large funnel covering the top. Depending on whether you want to kill them or not, either add bait or food to the bucket. Then, install some kind of ladder to the side so the mice can climb up. A branch or broomstick will do. When the mice climb up, they'll slide down the funnel into the bucket and can't climb out. In the Australian Outback, where the farmers have regular mice plagues, they end up emptying dozens of these buckets daily 😲
This isn't working for me. I put 1 part muffin mix to 2 parts baking soda in a container with a large enough opening. I also mixed up a peanut butter "glob" with the same proportions and put that in another container. I put a trail cam nearby. I can see the mice and rats going by, but they show absolutely no interest in the "recipes". They just ignore them! Any suggestions?
I have mice in my attic. I thought of doing similar methods, but Iam scared that they will crap the bed in the attic in places that are not easily accessible to dispose of the body. I've tried snap traps, but I can only get them in certain areas. Thoughts?
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Mice and rats are dangerous when they're poisoned & their waste becomes toxic. I really appreciate you sharing these non-toxic ways to eliminate them. Great video!
We always leave the hood open on the tractor and riding mower in the barn and in ten years have never had an issue with wiring being eaten! Apparently they only like to build a nest 🪹 in enclosed areas!
👍🏻☮✌🏻
This goes for when your Out camping, mice or rats can destroy a wiring harness. In a night or two. Pack rats are a big problem also.
This is a thorough and helpful video and just in time. I have a couple of buildings on my property that store my atv, tractor, and tools. Always the mouse droppings are everywhere. Today I’m heading out there armed with baking soda and jiffy mix in a 2:1 ratio. I’ll clean up all the droppings, see what happens afterward, and in a few weeks will report back with my results.
Thank you for this video and your presentation style is fantastic.
@nowakezoneforever6021 hi did this work?
great video. The bucket remained an arm rest and product stand.( I have caught a many rat and mouse in buckets filled with water and canola oil & floating sunflower seeds ) My next batch I'll double up on the baking soda
Thomas's wife here. I enjoyed your presentation style Thank you for the information. Also, thanks to the viewer who mentioned the feral cats. We have feral cats and bats around our neighborhood and they do a good job keeping away the unwelcome wildlife. 😊
Feral cats also decimate bird populations.
my ferals are too well fed apparently we are having a problem but also they are tearing down houses and rebuilding and I also expect that is part of the problem.
@poetmaggie1 Yeah, I livecin a Midwest city with empty & abandoned homes all around me.
Someone came in & bulldozed the interior of the place next door, then boarded it up, but the rats came to my place & I've been fighting them ever since!
I get by on Social Security, so I can't afford an exterminator and my city only will treat the empty houses, if you own, they expect you to deal with them yourself!
Awesome! Thank you!
Thank you for putting together a thorough coverage on this topic. I had seen an old vid combining b. soda and cornmeal and you covered them all. With such a simple recipe I’m wondering why cities have such a problem.
The blasted things get into engine of rider all-the-time and will need to get peppermint oil out for that and feed them. They already ate wires AGAIN😡 and we use Tom Cat plastic traps, but must have not checked them frequently enough.
Mice are SO destructive! And Yes, carry disease and smell. Oh the mess they can make and costly.
I wonder if it works for voles. I know we used peanut butter in early spring on rat traps and caught two in one trap. Those things have got to go! We’ve never ever had them before and they ate spring bulbs.🤬. We reduced the huge population of gophers with rat traps and celery leaf. Like you said they can return once they repopulate.
Thanks again! I took notes! New subscriber here.
I bought an electric box which attaches under the hood of the car. It runs on a battery and prevents the rats from chewing the battery cables or any hoses. I purchased it on Amazon.
Mice got into the wiring on my furnace years ago. The electrician who fixed it suggested wiping some diesel fuel on the wires. They never touched them again.
I have used vitamin D3 they make their own and OD on it this worked great with one of worst infestations I've had but the rats seem to be not be affected and we as humans take this in micrograms they also are onion, limes and lemons. I was surprised also ate 7 cubes of mouse poison from dollar store this hasn't happened with mice.I will try so of the other things you have mentioned. The D3 I had great results with mice and is not toxic to humans .And non nocturnal animals as far as I know ask a Vet to make sure. Thanks
They are the onion, limes, lemons in the above statement again. Thanks
Update: we’ve been using peppermint oil under the hood of rider and old truck and no mice problem all winter 🙌🏼🎉.
A science teacher at my middle school once suggested using bacon grease and synthetic sponges. The rodents eat the sponge and it becomes indigestible, leading to the same dire consequences for our buck tooth friends. What do you think?
Thanks for all of the great tips!
We used to buy bait blocks by the bucket, but they're not available to the public here in Canada anymore. Now you can only buy a trap that comes with 1 or 2 blocks. So if you still have a problem afterwards, you have to buy new traps each time.
Govt over reach once again….
@ZenGardenOasis. I think it had to do with some people not being responsible with them. I know someone that was throwing bait all down the alley to to get rid of rats. When I challenged her saying cats could get into it, she said there's no cats around here & my response was, yeah, not anymore. She was actually covering the packages with peanut butter to entice the rats.
You mean, there's no MAID Program for rodents???
@@InGratitudeIam no, just for humans, lol.
The city will bait burrows, but not in sheds... where they are clearly present.
I don't know where you live but cross the border with money every year and stick up while you can
Great ideas. Down side of live traps IS you only catch 1. Mice always come in pairs. So it can be more expensive that way and moving them to a new area you are causing your issue upon other people in that area.
There’s a live catch trap that catches many at once. Cheers
Expensive?! A four pack of spring traps is $6 (for the good ol Victor brand).
@@henrybutchy3242 Victor traps are hard to empty an reset compared to some others available on amazon. I got black plastic snap traps hat you can empty and reset easily without getting your fingers germy.
@@ZenGardenOasis. I came to say the same thing - a trap door that closes itself with a counterweight.
One thing to watch out for is to avoid onions in the bait. Sausages often contains onions to some extent so using sausage as bait could be ineffective.
Thanks. I didn't know they came in pairs. That's helpful.
I found one drawback with the muffin / baking soda mix. I had rats that were so well fed, they'd only nibble a little bit on the mix. I saw this using a trail cam. When I trapped them, they were FAT. So they were getting plenty of food somewhere else in the area and the bait was a small dessert. Had to add some some powdered peanut butter and sugar to the mix.
I found Sugar is good with the Jiffy Mix
@@vincentnichols402 Thanks!
This is a great list, thank you! The mice are on to the snap traps, haha. Oh, and I live in a very old port city, and asian rats are smaller than regular old Norway rats that are in all ports. Growing up near the grain elevators that loaded onto the ships, I can guarantee that "rats the size of a cat" is NOT an exaggeration. :)
I lived in NY & I’ve seen rats 🐀 as big as cats, gross 🤮
In the Caribbean I was told that coffee beans left around, would kill rats and mice, they are attracted to the smell then eat them, now I was told that what happens is the beans expand and mess with their digestive system and they eventually die, but I wonder if it has to do with the caffeine in the beans or the tannins.
🤔
If those sticky traps get flipped over onto your carpet there's instructions on how to clean it up. Don't even waste your time. Put it on a piece of foam board you can get at the dollar store. Center it on a piece2x the size of the foam board and tape the edges to the floor or carpet out of direct sunlight. I've tried turpentine to get that sticky trap glue up, and peanut butter. Put a chair over it and replace the carpet when you have extra money.
Thanks for those options. Previously I used peanut butter with boric acid and stuck it under the cabinets for the roached. I don't know if the rat is still in my kitchen, but I plan to use the peanut butter, sugar, flour and baking soda. Thank you for all these suggestions.
Thank you for these tips and recipes.
Thanks for the tips!
If the traps/baits are laid out inside, do they die inside , in the walls, or go off to die? Just curious if I'd have to find the dead bodies before they decompose somewhere under cabinets or , appliances etc. and of course start to stink the place up.
Wow thanks for all these great suggestions!
Thanks for the info. Something for everyone's problems.
What a fabulous, useful video! Thank you SO much!!! I live in a mostly rural area with some wooded acreage within 80' of my house and yes, every Fall, mice try to invade. I had a Black snake move into my garage one year, and s/he helped greatly with a lot of them, but of course, the generations that succeeded come back, and I'm not willing to sacrifice the structure or wiring in my home to mercy. I love animals, but if it's me or them, I win. btw, I love the look of your greenhouse. I have a small barn whose siding is deteriorating and I'm wondering about how to refurbish it using whatever that material is.
Much to my spouse's chagrin I replaced the corrugated metal (tin) on the south side of our 40 x 50 storage barn with corrugated polycrilic product. Wall is 16 ft tall, but I only took the poly up to 8.5 feet tall. On the inside of the barn I used metal conduit to make a 8 x 20 ft frame tunnel greenhouse to hang reinforced heavy plastic sheeting on.
I've had one issue in 30 years. A big whirlwind ripped a tree limb and flung it against my poly siding. I had to replace a few sheets that were cracked. Other than that it's been a great space to house my big container plants in winter.
The huge unexpected bonus is it heats the whole spray-foam insulated barn up to 50+ degrees all winter. The forced air, propane heater salvaged from our house when we upgraded comes on only in the early morning hours. The massive concrete floor acts as a heat sink that stores heat all day and releases heat all night. The heater only runs when we have extended periods of cloudy weather.
On cold winter days my greenhouse tunnel commonly hits 100°F in mid afternoon. The rest of the barn will be around 65° F on an average, sunny winter day.
The poly made a dark dreary barn into such a delightful sunny space I built myself a 4 x 8 craft table inside. It's my favorite handy getaway from home - within 100 yds of my back door.
@@rt3box6tx74 I love that for you! My little barn is a 20X24 and does not have the luxury of a concrete floor, but I appreiate your enthusiasm for the polycarbonate. Thanks very much for your experience!
@SherryEllesson The lack of a concrete floor isn't a deal breaker. I'd rather have pea gravel. I've actually thought about putting down a heavy sheet of plastic to cover with pea gravel. Hope you find a satisfactory solution.
I relocated a big roof rat to a WalMart parking lot. It immediately ran to one of the bushy islands. A hawk saw this going on and swooped down and eventually found the rat in the brush. Mr Rat took an unscheduled flight lol
Baking soda, rodents can't belch or fart. Rats prefer wheat flour to White flower I found this out cuz they got into my house. Wheat flour sugar baking soda. Or if they're really finicky cornmeal, a little bit of sugar, baking soda
Rats can definitely fart. Ask anybody who has had pet rats. Don't believe me, a simple internet search will verify.
Please don’t pay attention to the trollish negative comments. I’ll bet the people who criticize have never made videos. You do you… if they don’t like it, they should move on!
Thanks for the info!
Lots of people are so unhappy with themselves they attempt to transfer it to others. As a therapist I see who they really are….cheers.
@@lesta.artist who specifically are you calling out.
@@danmcdonagh8924 probable the posts YOU don't get to see because either RUclips or ZGO had removed because of trolls like that danmcdonagh8924 person!
And they get into your vehicle engine. I would leave my garage door open just a bit. Mice moved in and chewed up wires in my vehicle engine. I ended up costing me over $600 to fix. And because my car was new i had to wait almost a week for them to get the parts fedex. I put peppermint oil around my tires and around the garage.
I use the powdered peanut butter, powdered butter, with some amount of one or more of the baking soda - super washing soda - borax . Might add some potato flakes when they go bad. Just depends on what I have around and what animals I know could possibly have access to these mixes.
Some rodents have been known to return when relocated even up to 15 miles away.
How do you know?... fingerprinting & DNA profiling?
@@davidbrewer7937Micro chipping by the guberment. 😉
I think you’re confusing rodents with adult children who won’t leave mom & dad’s house.
@@davidbrewer7937Tail dipped in white paint you can tell easily. I heard it from a guy who was blasted with rodents from street excavation and a neighbour who had a lot of dogs (& they left the dog food bags out).
He said you have to go far or they will come back. Garbage dump likely less chance they will want to return it's a mountain of old food and clothing to nest in and a million cousins to visit.
Raccoons can return but small mammals will only venture a few hundred yards when relocated to a strange area. They do not expose themselves anymore than needed, You watched too much "American Tail" growing up.
Ok. I just this evening made a mix of Jiffy and baking soda. I will add baking soda before I put it out. Thank you.
As for poison I say a big no. In the early 60's my puppy Nicky got into the neighbor's barn and ate their rat poison. It was a horrible death for my dog. It is a very painful memory to this day. It happened during the Christmas season. We rushed him to the vet but he couldn't save him.
So sorry 😢
Pets and wildlife can also die if they eat the carcass of a poisoned rodent
So sorry to hear this.
I have tried plaster of Paris. I have tried cement. All things like potato flakes, cornmeal, flour, sugar simply ATTRACT MORE RODENTS. I'm not exaggerating.
Thank you. I have at least one rat visitor every year during winter in my attic. I’m so terrified I about to sell my house to get rid of it!!!!
thank you for different recipes
We used to put the Decon boxes in our attic. Mom would put a heaping tablespoon of plaster of Paris in and mix it in and we put a dish of water with it. They usually didn’t get far. Worked on mice and rats and chipmunks and squirrels.
Baking soda push down a drain, poor vinegar on it after the fizz slows down Chase with boiling water, rolling boiling is the best, and you just cleaned your drains. Safe naturally and won't hurt your pipes or septic system
All you are doing is melting the clog with boiling water the baking soda and vinegar are just for your entertainment as when they are mixed the solution is neutralized and the foaming does nothing.
By using the trap when you relocate you are probably giving someone else the mouse problem
Advice for voles? Will the baking soda have the same effect as it does on mice and rats?
Love the plaster of paris
I have a large population of ferrel cats who seem to increase in population every spring. I also plant mint in my gardens-with their roots contained in pots. I didn’t notice any rats or mice during my last gardening season-which recently ended. Do you think all of the aforementioned is enough to deter the rodents from my area? 🙏🏾 Thanks.
Mint is a great plant to deter mice, they are allergic to it or don't like the smell of it
I have read that spiders hate peppermint too
@@deborahharvey854lavender too
@sheilabrennan5543 is this effective against rats, also?
I've had the rats / mice eat the mint after it had been planted a few years. So they eventually get used to it.
How long does it take for the baking soda/corn muffin mix from the time they consume it to dispatch a mouse? thanks
great video - any specific ratio for the peanutbutter cement powder mix?
I use sticky traps placed around the basement walls and to prevent stepping on them I Duct tape two large food cans together to make s tunnel. I put a yellow strip of tape on one side to indicate up and makes it easier to see if they've moved. These things catch a lot of crickets too. On the outside i have 4 large Tomcat Bait Stations on each side of my house on outside and can use commercial poison or the homade kind.
Do the sticky traps fit flat inside the cans? How many mice have you caught with this method? Thanks!
@SingleFileCooks
Slightly curve them before peeling off the protective paper, when you're happy with the fit, peel and slide inside the food can tunnel. I've got several spread around the walls of my basement and have caught several mice, a small snake and legions of crickets. Since I have 4 large Tomcat Bait Stations on each side of my house, thankfully rarely mice get in, but they still catch a lot of crickets. If the sticky traps haven't caught anything and have lost some stickiness, I spread a thin film of Mineral Spirits, leave it alone and the excess solvent evaporates and revives the stickiness.
@@Jeffrey-t8g good info thanks!
I tried this with 1/1 flour/baking soda mix. It did not work. I will try this out, and thank you in advance.
You didn’t use the jiffy mix which is corn meal.
We used icing sugar. It was dynamite
The honey cornbread muffin mix id more effective.
Me too. the flour-baking soda mix did nothing. They didn't even eat it. I suppose the plain flour wasn't attracting them.
@@MUSIC-JoyceHansonAnderson-d4m I think you need to add sugar
Cocoa powder is not advised around dogs as most dogs love chocolate and they cannot digest the theobromine in the cocoa.
Thanks for the lesson - but I don’t want them running off and hiding to die and stinking up the house😵💫 how fast do the baking soda recipes work? Would it work to put it in a 5 gallon or smaller bucket and will they go in and die fast?
So do they leave the area or die in the house ,garage ECT.
Or do they go to the nearest wallgreens and perchest some Metamucil for their symptoms???
Sorry, but that's "ETC.".
They return to the nest when they don't feel good. So as long as the nest is not in the house, you will not have issues. I have several bait stations because mice and rats run an easement behind our property where the weeds are too high for predators to get them. I prefer to get them before they get to the house. I can see when the bait has been eaten when I check them. Have not had a single mouse or rat die in the house.
Just an FYI, borax is not boric acid, and one isn't a substitute for the other.
I am going to bait my snap traps with baking soda-pb mix. If the trap doesn't get them, the bait will!
Thanks for the idea, I'm definitely going to be doing this.
A 2-Prong attack.
A lot of good info, but can you imagine dying by bowl blockage, must be very painful. Those mice in the field can be used to eliminate ticks. Get cotton or dryer lint and treat with permethrin, let dry and put in tolet paper tubes and put the tubes where mice go, under brush, wood or rocks where it doesn't get wet. The mouse will use as nesting material. The mice and the off spring will be coated with permethrin and since they are the main source for picking up ticks, the ticks bite them and die off, over months the ticks nearly all die off
There are no ticks in my area.
Thank you, for this suggestion. For people who do have ticks in their area.
You may think that mice help deter ticks but the tiny deer ticks in my area carry three infectious diseases that they CATCH from mice.
He explained that this is not the most humane way to take care of them, but he also mentioned that it works the most effective. You have to weigh that. Sometimes you have to be higher on the food chain.
Sounds really good idea and humane
Daughter has Lyme disease
Anything that gets rid of ticks has my support
In the southwest I have read four corners disease comes from rodents
Research it if you live there
A 5 gallon bucket half full of water with a ramp and a little peanut butter on the end of the diving board. 🐀
Dog and cat eats peanut butter. You have to put this in a really safe place.
@@dragonmasters678Don’t you think a cat or dog can jump out of a 5 gallon bucket?
Great piece ! Question is ....As my wife is hounding me on , is it instantaneous death or slow kill ?
Love your videos !😊❤
Thank You for the info. The baking soda mix does not work with the rats i have. Not even DE. I bought "One Bite" ut worked. My neighbor was over ran with rats, nothing seemed to work. 28 rats later she is rat free as I am.
Where can I find this miracle stuff?
Ok, Rodents are gone now, all is lingering the plumes of mouse farts...
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Do you think melted chocolate mixed with baking powder will work? Or will the hot chocolate somehow negate the effect of the baking soda?
Does it kill them right away? If they were to escape back outside and a bird ears them, will the bird die? We used to have birds of prey but ppl were poisoning rats and the birds got ahold of them and died. It was sad to see 😢
This is a large problem in many areas with various environmental systems, too. I'd like to know the answer to your question. Thanks.
Powdered sugar and Plaster of Paris
What does it do?
@@deborahharvey854 it’s sets up inside them blocking all internal.
Mice and rats aren’t animals - they’re pests! 😂😂 Thanks for the tips- does the cornmeal baking soda harm weasels? I caught one with my Tom Cat snap trap once but once I released him he was gone fast 💨
Humm. Mixing cement with peanut butter would cause the moisture in the peanut butter to set the cement and make it a solid. Does not take much moisture to set cement. I do like some of your ideas but this cement to peanut butter probably will not work.
Peanut butter powder could work
It’s oil, therefore your logic is a no.
Fair call though. I'd say it depends on how much moisture is in the air and how hot it gets (that oil won't last forever).
Thanks for the information. Once the rats consume the mixture, would they usually die in the house?
Hi, glad you’ve made this video. I get mice coming in to house at this time of the year. If I use one of your mixes and lay it in my kitchen and the mice eat it, how long does it take to kill them and where do they go to die. Will I find the dead ones somewhere within the kitchen?
I think the jiffy brand has a key ingredient not found in other corn muffin mix; lard. I’ve used the pan brand corn muffin mix and not a touch. They love sunflower seeds in shell, just don’t know how to poison those so the mice will eat
leave out the corn mix adding any of the other things with cat food that the cat doesn't eat, works will on the 4-legged things plus the wasp.
I have not seen Strawberry quick in ages! When I left the states it was on the shelves both here in the EU and the states. Last year I was back in the states I could not find it at all. Here in the EU it disappeared about a decade ago. Tempted to see if the company still makes it here in the EU. The country I live in has a fetish for everything chocolate, probable reason why it’s no longer stocked, no demand for it. Nice greenhouse! A DIY project or from a kit?
Don’t know if it’s true but in the Dark Ages in Europe the church associated cats with witchcraft and made great efforts to eliminate them. Well cats were also known to eliminate mice and rats. Without the cat population to control the rodents they multiplied exponentially and as we all know they were some of the principle carriers of the plague.
I used to love Strawberry Quick.
I have had enough chocolate for a lifetime already.
I haven't seen it in over a decade maybe over 15 years in Canada.
Right about the same time "Mocha" became the big seller.
I think the Spanish Bakery nearby runs an strong ionizer at night
The napkins always smell burnt
Does this eliminate rodents?
I tried this option, didn't work. They are also cautions, if the varmints digest it and don't feel well they won't eat more or if they observe their varmint critters they become suspicious. They also licked peanut butter off bait pellets and left the pellets. I went to heavy duty route and that took a solid 2 weeks for roof rats.
Oh, please ramble on I'm learning a lot. I see 158K must also like your channel.
When they die,does it smell and how do I get the odor out of my house if I don't see the carcass ?
I put moth balls around the outside perimeter of my house. Inside I use peppermint oil .
Moth balls are toxic to pets, plants, soils, good bugs (and bad). Much better choices easily available.
Not interested in saving the lives of rodents, just protecting other animals and children.
Dude if you had chicken you'll understand
When using the baking soda and jiffy mix does it cause the mice to decompose and smell?
Can you use mortar instead of cement?
Jiffy and baking soda works great! I used to get infested every 🎉winter. No more!
Did it stink up the place when they died in the walls n ceiling?
you forgot the sugar
Will any of these work with gray squirrels?
There are little traps for squirrels .. and you can rehome them somewhere else.
Would a version of this work on moles? The trick would be to feed them without the stuff getting wet before hand; I guess?
I think moles feed on worms and insects in the ground.
Borax and boric acid are not the same thing at all. You seem to use the terms interchangeably, and it confuses me. Which one do you mean?
Will I be feeding the cockroaches with this mix? Texas, and I really don't want to be attracting more cockroaches to the yard?
I’ve had good success with a small tilt live trap. After catching and leaving the mice in the trap for 24 hrs, I shook the mouse out of the trap and it was still alive but eventually the mice quit getting into the garage. Mice can communicate about the danger to other mice
Thank you for the information , now I wont need Plaster of Paris.even though it got rid of them
A carving knife. But, they have to be blind.
There's a whole nursery rhyme about it.
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Seems to work in ratios of three mice.😅
Thank you for sharing
You can also use a large bucket like the one you're leaning on with a large funnel covering the top.
Depending on whether you want to kill them or not, either add bait or food to the bucket.
Then, install some kind of ladder to the side so the mice can climb up. A branch or broomstick will do.
When the mice climb up, they'll slide down the funnel into the bucket and can't climb out. In the Australian Outback, where the farmers have regular mice plagues, they end up emptying dozens of these buckets daily 😲
What do you have for voles?
That two-door trap is impossible to set. The Havahart XS one-door trap is the perfect size for rats and is really easy to set.
Wouldn't cement powder turn rodents into hardened criminals?
I heard someone say bubblegum as a method to get rid of rodents?
Does it work for squirrels as well
Thank you for this ⚘
This isn't working for me. I put 1 part muffin mix to 2 parts baking soda in a container with a large enough opening. I also mixed up a peanut butter "glob" with the same proportions and put that in another container. I put a trail cam nearby. I can see the mice and rats going by, but they show absolutely no interest in the "recipes". They just ignore them! Any suggestions?
Can you use this for moles?
Please avoid rodenticide in the country, as it kills owls.
What brand greenhouse do you have?
I build it via pressure treated lumber and panels from greenhouse megastore. My own design.
@@ZenGardenOasis. Thanks!
@@ZenGardenOasis. Your aloe plants are lovely. 😍
THANK YOU
Thank you, but what about gopher?
How about possums? Will this work?
Those boards work amazingly well but do not work in the cold, does not stay sticky
Wonder if aspirin or Panadol id a myth to contain rodent issues
I suppose you would say that I live in Southern Asia. My current bigger problem is ants if many different types.
I have mice in my attic. I thought of doing similar methods, but Iam scared that they will crap the bed in the attic in places that are not easily accessible to dispose of the body. I've tried snap traps, but I can only get them in certain areas. Thoughts?
Do the mice hide and doe?
So you trap live mice and place them far enough way from your home but close enough to someone else's house ?
Dont put peanut butter on sticky traps, the oil in pb will negate the glue and mice can just walk all over it without gittin stuck.
I’ve had that same issue. I caught one and it rolled around in the greasy peanut butter and got off.