Mice In The Greenhouse🐁 It's an infestation. How I'm keeping it under control. Traps? Poison?
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- Опубліковано 16 чер 2023
- The mice have moved in. Food, Water, Shelter, and Security: So who could blame them? 24 mice caught in 72 hours..... so far.
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Lost my beloved German Shepherd to mouse poison in a friends barn. Horrifying. People must use EXTREME caution.
You should try the bucket trap. I used it for my barn and got 50 in one night.
Holy. 50 in 1 night.
@@ArkopiaUA-cam Ya try Google bucket mouse trap or something like that. You take a bucket and put bait on a rotating cylinder in the center. the mice fall in and can't get out. you have to "take care" of them in the morning. I suggest looking it up its hard to explain on text.
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Here is what I used.
The early bird gets the worm but the second mouse gets the cheese.
My man, it would be great to see some geothermal camera action on your double double windows this winter. I think leave one of the inside windows open for 24 hours and see how it compares to a double double that has them both shut.
Only a few weirdos, like me and you care about my double double windows. 😂 That would be a good to show; I’ll track down somebody with equipment this winter and do another video on it. 👍✌️
Definitely more mice this year around our area. Our coop was loaded this year, didn’t have any last year. The multi catch rotating live traps work well, caught 6 in a night, but the spring crank system broke after a few days, would not recommend.
I’ve also noticed fewer foxes, and our regular great horned owls have migrated somewhere else which was disappointing.
You need to use flip plank traps. A seesaw above a bucket with water. If you want to buy a quality product, for example a "slip n slide" will work miracles, but a handy man like you can make your own too. You only need to empty it every few days to avoid smell, the trap can trap countless mice and keeps resetting itself .
I use a flip bucket in my attic through the winter so I only need to empty it in spring so it won't smell bad in the heat.
After a while, your traps will not work, the mouses will “smell the death” of the others.
When that happens you need to boil all the traps.
My grandfather used to boil the traps after each use.
But nothing works better than a terrier or a proper cat.
My grandfather used the cat an the terrier method all his life too.
Mix baking soda and jiffy cornbread mix together. Serve in a bowl.
The best trap I found is the 5gallon bucket with a ramp that climbs to the top of the bucket with some kind of rolling implement (beer can on a piece of fencing wire) baited with Peanut butter. They roll down and can't climb out.
Humane, you catch em alive and release them in the neighbour's barn 😅, or some people teach them to swim...to each their own!
I also screw the wooden trap to a piece of scrap wood after traps got dragged off.
A female cat will hunt the best, they normally have to hunt for their litter vs the male cats. Yes, other animals can die from eating poisoned mice
Wow, what a battle. We have mice but luckily it's just here and there. Peanut butter gets them every time. Good luck!
Ìm using the old school...like yours but inside my garage where is the cellars roots 👍
Also I use peppermint oil or Irish spring soap shavings under the vehicle hoods or vents as a repellent.
Hi Dean!
Au natural ... use lots of moth balls. They dare not cross the thresholds if you line up moth balls around the perimeters. But this means, no doggies and young children in the tropical green home. Also you can use bar soap of Irish Spring. They hate that those things
All the best❤
I hope this helps you.
I have used mothballs and Irish spring in vehicles. I could try at the entrances to the greenhouse. Thanks
Get those bucket lids that have the trap door. They work like a hot damn.
When they chew on the steel wool they
Bleed out and it kills them
Funny, I have the same problem. I usually catch 1 per week. The squirrel requires a bigger trap though.
Haha. Haven’t had a squirrel in there yet. That I know of anyway. 😂
Mice will chew on your car wiring (probably other wires too). I have heard that “Irish Spring” soap bars will deter them. Not sure if it would do anything in the greenhouse.
I have heard that about Irish Spring, but it at the dollar store, but haven’t noticed it doing anything. Old wives tale I think. 😂
@@ArkopiaUA-cam It might not work in open areas but might in the enclosed space of a car. Supposedly you place full bars (or large chunks) close to a mass of wires. On a similar note I have had wasps build a nest in my mailbox (simple one with a top flap opening), once I put in a couple of clothes dryer softener sheets they went away.
Dean, roadkill Into bucket with holes in lid for flies to lay eggs, and holes in bottom to allow maggots too fall out, raise above chicken pen
i wonder if different gauge screen that would allow in wasps / bees but too small for mouse could work.
5 gallon flip top buckets and a dachshund/ terrier mix..
I use electric trap. They run on 2 AA batteries. Batteries last quite a while and i find it cleaner kill then a traditional trap. I do use peanut butter as well.
YUP mice! Same solution, cheapest wooden traps with pb!
My Jack Russells take care of voles, mice and have gotten rats too.
I wonder if it's bulls VOLES they're look like a mouse, but they're slower.But they burrow like crazy and love to eat out of gardens.I had some in the community garden that I belong to and it was a nightmare
We had a terrific rodent problem I a old farmhouse we bought so here's what we did. Using a table knife Buy coarse steel wool tear it apart if make it thinner and stuff all away around the outside perimeter where the wood plate for the stud walls sits on the concrete so its all sealed off with steel wool, no cracks. That was 40 years ago and we've never had a mouse since. That's why I asked u what ur flooring it, concrete with dirt on top or dirt.
That’s great. I have heard of someone putting steel wool along the bottom of buildings and sort of under the steel siding at the bottom. Sounds like that worked great for you. Thank you. 👍🙂
Mouse trap TV - bucket lid with grain glued on it. Full with water & they drown quickly
I found that with traps I was continually catching them with peanut butter....then found that they can't stand the smell of peppermint oil. I sprinkled it around where they ran and where ever I caught or suspected they might be. They vacated immediately and no sign of them since. I sprinkle oil every six months...no mice since.
I declared war on mice in my machine shed. I had them get In my combine and trucks. I was so passed off. I put a mouse trap about ever 3 ft around the inside perimeter in my 60ft by 100 machine shed as well poison every 10 ft. I think most mice that stray inside my shed are dead in minutes. I use peanut butter also. Mice are so destructive that you can't let your guard done for minute.
I use a desiccant mixed with cornmeal. They eat it, leave and dry out when they die so I don't wind up with a stinky dead mouse. I would not do this if I was going to feed them to other animals.......only when I'm away for a while and don't want to find mice caught in a trap that have rotted.
I wonder if you could build some half doors - might block the mice without impeding the beneficial insects.
Supposedly both mice and white fly/.Other insects don't like coffee grounds on top of the soil so anybody?That has a problem.Can try coffee grounds spent coffee grounds sprinkled on top of the soil
Fun facts... mice have no urinary or defecation control... cleanliness very important. I believe their reproduction rate (days from birth to sexual maturity) is ridiculously low, like 21 days or something like that. Traps generally work, but if you get mice that wise up to them... the "roll over into bucket" setup seems to be the fool proof way to go. Also allows for lots of catches without having to reset for each one.
Best and natural way - cat.
I thought about that they will poop and urinate inside greenhouse, but space is too big to make it really smell with cats products, at least one cat will not make sensible effect , a few probably will but in quite long period of about few months
With poison I'd be worried about the dog eating a mouse that's eaten poison.
Bucket traps might be a less of a chore to maintain than all those spring traps.
I've used humane live traps but for some reason the mice wouldn't survive to the next morning. Maybe too cold.
Im a first time gardener who can confirm that you are right about not getting a cat! Neighbourhood cats even the ones with a collar keep coming into my yard and pee and poo everywhere around the house and in my garden beds despite fully fenced yard. I clean up poop everyday. Im afraid my kids could catch some disease from that as cats poo literally everywhere they like. I dont know how im gonna eat that food, is it even safe? I tried to deter them with essential oils, chasing them away - nothing worked. They know i dont want them there and they keep doing it. Theres no by law about cats in my small canadian town. I honestly dont know wat to do.
Live cat traps? I know, they make your outside garden a litter box too.
@@ArkopiaUA-cam First of all i should say I admire you as a person! You are strong, smart and resilient and you are a leader, not a follower. I listened to your 40 sm min video on your outlook on having kids in this day and age and other stuff. Absolutely brilliant! I too want to learn how to provide for my kids and be more self sufficient.
As for cats, Im not sure what to do since the liberals issued a law stating that if you trap a cat and it will be injured in the process you will be criminally charged. One of the cats that poops in my garden is limp on one paw. They might think it was me who injured it and charge me. I dont know what to do. The laws seem to b against us taking initiative...
@@SH-jy6lc Appreciate that a lot. Thank you. 🙏 Almost all silly rules and problems go away when you remove yourself from society a bit; and love a little more remotely. 👍✌️ Seems like everything is illegal these days.
Mini doberman pincher trained to deter cats
@@jjw5165 Mini doberman costs from 2000-4000. Then there are vet bills, dog food, treats, training etc. First year will cost me like 8 gran or so. I think for 8 gran i can hire a homeless guy to assassinate all the cats in my neighbourhood. Even if he goes to jail its free food and rent, right? Or for 8 gran a year I'll just sleep outside in a hut to chase off the cats lmao
But thanks for the advice!
Poison as last resort if you can. Other natural predators such as the ones you mentioned are at risk of poisoning too.
Something to remember mice pee while moving so if you have mice in your home and you don’t mind sharing your kitchen with one, make sure. You clean up properly as you may find yourself with an intestinal parasite of somesort
I live in the Nevada desert in a camper so I deploy rat traps [2] inside my front tires with peanut butter to catch ground squirrels. I keep my electrical system secure this way.
Good idea. 👍✌️
Long term fix, install metal screen doors on all openings, then remove the screens. Lets in bees, keeps out rodents.
Everybody needs to record this video and post it EVERYWHERE before some PETA freak makes him take it down
You can create a poison bait based on baking soda for mice and rats. It shouldn't be toxic to dogs and cats, but do the research.
This works amazing btw.
quick hardning cement in some food or yeast and baking soda or borax might help
well having mice is a good and a bad sign. good because it means you don't have rats. rats usually kill all other rodents in their immediate area of operation. if you run out of effective ideas or are looking for better ones, i would recommend to you the youtube channel "shawn woods" he is THE rodent trap guy.
Great Job
Birds of prey, need some perches.
A friend had mice get into his Subaru that was parked on his gravel driveway so he used poison to eliminate the problem. Months later when winter hit mouse fur would blow out the heater ducts ! 😂
We need to acquire some cats and something that eats ants lol.
Glue traps work quite well around room edges, you can easily catch several per trap.
A thought from a technician that wants to build a walipini greenhouse: building a protected environment for growing food and then opening it up to wildlife during their summer breeding season just doesn't sound very wise. What I'll try to do is build a tight mouseproof greenhouse and use solar powered fans and screened in louvers to ventilate it during the hot days of summer.
Also, maybe there is a way to create screened over insect pathways in & out of the greenhouse that would not allow a mouse to get in? (Proper mesh size?) Even better, an insect access way that uses automation to recognize & zap harmful insects but allow beneficial insects to pass thru.
How about a couple of terriers?
So what would you do differently 🤔 to make the greenhouse more deterrent for mice? After all the suggestions which would have made sense? Thanks in advance!
Just keep mouse traps going as a summer routine
24 Lil packs of chicken feed!
Mice seem to be on the rise but honestly it's ants I've seen the most. In and around Regina area and up at the farm, insane amount of ants. Apparently just insane in some places at Regina Beach.
Not an ant out here. But lots of beetles. So many little hard-shelled beetles.
@@ArkopiaUA-cam so many ant's at the farm that I took a video outside of one colony attacking another. They also got inside the house:(
@@overlordsshadowgot em bad in millet Alberta. Pretty sandy here.
those are some of the fattest wild mice I've ever seen.
Dean the bucket trap works amazing for me. You should try them.
Would electric dog fence/collar work on a cat as a predator perimeter for the greenhouse when it's opened up in the thoes months? Just an idea.😅
Possibly it would be best set within several feet of the outside perimeter. Interested if this works. Let us know if it's something you try. 😊
Come on !!!!! You not seen CaddyShack? Bill Murray knows how to really deal with pests. Great Video thx.
Carl new that alot of C-4 goes alot longer way!
I rescued two abyssinians and when they passed away I had a mouse infestation in the kitchen.
I caught over 50 mice under the sink and then release them back behind the pond.
But I haven't really seen any mice for the past couple years maybe because the neighborhood cats patrol my property and I have many types of hawks and owls and weasels
You know if mice wouldn't crap and pee all over the place in between chewing up everything, I'd be perfectly content with letting them winter in my house. Heck, I'd set up a bed for them and drop off some food. But they do crap and pee all over the place in between chewing up everything. So there's that.
Apparently cats are a problem too. Time for some snakes or a couple of coyotes.
The will total off a vehicle, destroy insulation, and even eat they styrofoam on an ICF foundation on a building. Very destructive.
I had one come in for the winter couldn't get rid of it for a long time but I did catch it the one day but before I was able to, it are a hole in my wall 😠
@@aust205 When using live traps, it's important to identify a neighbor you don't like in advance so you'll know where to release them.
Now that I only have nice neighbors, I take them about 300 yards from the house on the other side of a creek.
I left one in a shoebox overnight with a few pieces of dog kibble. When I went to release him, he hesitantly left the box, then returned to the box to grab a piece of kibble for the road.
Oddly enough, my chickens make great mousers.
@@Underground-Electronic-Music Chickens are really just little dinosaurs with feathers. They'll eat about anything. I did notice their egg yolks were more orange when they discovered the mice.
I ❤️ cats!
I just can't eat a whole one.
So, the banana republic is going Mickey Mouse, eh?
This style works until the mice get smart enough to take turns being counterweights on the big stable side of the wire ua-cam.com/video/jLD8Sh8cobA/v-deo.html
Maybe a good time to start a snake farm?
Get a couple of cats.
I bet you could train a rat terrier to hunt them with a thermal camera.
So... a couple of things.. If u have a cat that catches & eats the mice & other rodent.. your cat will likely get parasites and cost you more money with vet bills. As for the mouse poison.. I do not like to use as it takes them a bit to die from it & in the meantime they will get taken by wildlife/predators.. then in turn said predators are not poisoned.. The choice is still yours.. We just use the traps and stay on top as best we can. Yes.. for some reason last year was bad for mice EVERYWHERE! Like.. world wide but especially north America.. Insane!
Is the floor of your greenhouse concrete with dirt on top or just dirt?
Some concrete, some just earth, but protected around the perimeter like any bullring. 👍
@@ArkopiaUA-cam so their digging their way under the perimeter?
Do you get this every year? And do you fully get rid of them every year?
First year with them. Pretty much got rid of them now.
Could you start a positive environment for the mice farther away from your home to reduce the temptation of the greenhouse?
We intentionally leave much of our land natural grass land pasture. It’s mouse paradise, so they are overpopulated. 👍
PB & ketchup or dark chocolate :)
We use 'Murder buckets' ... 5 gallon bucket with a ramp and PB rubbed on inside edge down about an inch
Best outside trap is a small blow up infant pool with a little water in it -- they can get in but can't get out
I prefer 'The Better Mouse trap' When they only get a leg trapped in it I throw the trap and mouse into a bucket of water. My chickens didn't seem interested in the dead mice but the ravens love them
Yes they are definitely abundant this year ... probably ideal conditions. I use to live in Claresholm, AB and worked at the 7-11 ... one year hundreds of water beetles came out from under the building and sidewalk. So thick they were a slippery hazard. Only saw that once in the dozen years working there
Saw some of those holes in my garden but then we've recently spotted a snake too so nature should take care of them ... they were eating my cannabis sprouts :(
Thanks for the video!!!
😂 😅😂
I know nothing but what about snakes?
Put some snakes in there lol😂
Nothing a cat can't fix
Please consider using a no-kill solution. You can run them outside away from the greenhouse and release them.
Try chickens.
Borrow a mink or two for an afternoon, problem solved.