RODENT INFESTATION Living Off Grid in the Desert 🐀 (Non-Toxic Rat Control)
Вставка
- Опубліковано 1 чер 2023
- This week we finally tackle our rodent infestation living off grid in the high desert of New Mexico. This issue has gone on for far too long.
Become an Element Life Member:
el.life/become-a-member
Subscribe: ua-cam.com/users/elementvanlife...
Be sure to turn notifications on so you never miss a video!
Instagram: @elementvanlife
/ elementvanlife
============================================
Van Life Gear, Camera Recommendations, and More:
www.amazon.com/shop/elementvan...
Using this Amazon link is a great way to support Element Van Life without costing you anything!
AMAZON LINK:
www.amazon.com/?tag=elementva...
============================================
Music:
Epidemic Sound
www.epidemicsound.com/referra...
Soundstripe
www.soundstripe.com/join?id=B...
as a van dweller in the desert and forests i’m very familiar with this problem. don’t feel bad for them. it’s you or them. do what you gotta do.
i would also suggest that maybe you should wear a mask when you are pulling apart the middens. i see a lot of dust flying up. you don’t want that stuff in your lungs.
I tried EVERYTHING humane for over a year and finally resorted to peanut butter and baking soda (mix a cup of each together to form a paste), and it totally worked. Literally just throw balls of paste into the nest, it's not toxic to anything else 😁👍
Just to clarify in case anyone else is wondering or concerned, it's not that baking soda is toxic to rats and mice. They can't burp, so when the baking soda hits the acid in their stomach it creates gas and they have no way of releasing it and the eventually die.
Build a Garage for your vehicle and wood storage, then mouse proof it😊
Mice, rats and gnats have been exceptionally numerous this year in New Mexico. We have found that the mice and rats are really attracted to white bread in the traps.
An idea I got from friends who had farms growing up in Idaho: Mix dry oats with dry quickcrete concrete mix and place bowls of it around the property. Mice and rats love it, but it dries them out from the inside and kills them without chemicals. Just an idea, anyway. Really cool bucket idea you used, too!
Very informative video. Thanks for sharing your experience. As mentioned in other comments, I do think it would be advisable to wear a mask or respirator when dismantling and disposing of those middens. Heaven only knows what's in that dust and what it could do to your lungs and sinuses.
Solid advice. I second the respiratory protection.
Do keep us posted on the effectiveness of your packrat battle over time! It is info much needed!
Consistency is definitely progress, and you guys are doing just that!!Take care, guys!!🤗🏜✨👍
You know. One thing I did in my traps was not place food. Input shiny objects. The pack rats Love shiny things
I’ve done some mouse, rat and skunk trapping. I’ve gotten better at it though experience. Common rats are the toughest ones to outsmart. If you keep at it and learn from your experience you will get better at it. It’s a continuous process. I don’t think you can ever “win” but you can definitely turn the tide in your favor. People who might criticize have probably never had to deal with the challenges of living with varmints. Best wishes and good luck!!! Thanks for the video Nate and Shannon!
Shaun Woods on UA-cam is a true expert on mice and rats...
That was tough! But taking care to stay healthy in YOUR environment is so important! 😊
Get a terrier. They were bred to hunt vermin. They are very effective and make great companions.
You then just add another problem to worry about
Also skunks. Friends have one that's been skunked over 5 times. Lol
I live in the high desert of So.Calif and found a solution on UA-cam.
You buy a package of Corn bread mix. If you can find it but if not it's ok.
You mix equal amounts of, corn bread mix with
Baking soda. It is deadly
For rodents but safe for
Everything else like birds, cats, dogs, etc!
It works! Equal parts!
Baking Soda And Corn bread Mix! Place containers of this mix every where! Only kills
Rodents! Causes a problem with there breathing! Can't breath!!!
@@lesleyhughes3174
What other problem would that be?
@@Parkhurst12-79 really? If you're an animal lover, like me, there's no way that I would be introducing any domestic animals where there is a permanent abode with coyote and wildcat etc within that territory!!
Feeding the birds is definitely a PLUS.
lol for the rats and mice LOLOLOLOL
I am a pest management pro…I would place rodent bait stations around all the buildings. Rodenticide will be locked inside to keep non target animals from eating it. I would also get bait stations that the snap traps sit inside to keep birds from being killed. You will need to check the bait stations frequently to replace rodenticide but you should see that taper off once you gain control of the rodent population.
Forgot to mention …try the trapper T-Rex traps …they have mouse and rat size. They are easier to bait, set, and easy to remove dead rodents.
Listen to @botcat last year we got mice for the first time ever. freaked and called a local pest solutions company. Came right out and spread those stations throughout the mainfloor, basement, and attic. Mice FREE.
We have mice and I set 4-5 traps around the buildings. It's slowed down recently, but you need to get on top of it early. The quicker you deal with them the less they can multiply.
You do what you have to do mannnnn.
Keep the pressure on because when you let up they will multiple very quickly.
You gotta do what you gotta do. I am a huge animal lover but those rats 🐀 & mice are disease spreaders. For your own well being you have to "combat" them however you can. Wishing you guys the best.🤎✌️
I live in the High Desert
Of the High Desert of So.Calif.
I have finally gotten rid of my problem by watching a video on UA-cam! It works!!! Buy
A package of Corn Bread
Mix mix equal parts of The Corn Bread Mix with
Baking Soda! Mix it up good and put in containers every where
You know the rodents are
Coming around! IT WORKS!!! :)
Suggestion for you I live in N Arizona and deal with them also Have had great luck with Corn Meal& Baking soda mixed together in a plastic container with a hole in it they cannot digest baking soda. Have had great results. Even got a couple of cats to help
I feel for you! It is a big concern for me, too! Get a snake 😉
I’m in Florida, so my black racer seems to help!
Nice vid you two! Loved it!
I use and have been successful to bait traps with something like mars bar as it sticks to the trap. And thanks for sharing and take care you two 🙂
Mix equal parts sugar, flour and baking soda and leave in trays/cups. The baking soda kills rats and mice but not larger animals.
I think I have another rat in the shed at the moment, so I should give this a go, I wondered why Bi-carb would do this and I thought maybe the gas build up in its guts and I think thats the reason. I read its faster too, not for the rats sake but to get rid of the bloody things faster.
As coincidence would have it, I moved out into the New Mexico sagebrush north and uphill of ya'll about the same time you got your place. Mice started hanging around in my van this winter. They did not leave with the warm weather. In the last couple weeks, I've finally started on my killing spree, too. Classic wooden moustraps for the win! Gonna try some peppermint oil and/or dryer sheets soon, too. ... Thankfully, nothing's gotten into my cabin!
Awesome video
Hi, What about leveling the property like small bulldozer pushing the brush outward from the property then electric fence too run on the ground of the property.😊😊
Posted this comment before reading other comments thoroughly: The one thing I wish you did was to wear an N95 mask while digging out those mittens. There's all sorts of bacteria, hanta virus, and valley fever you can breathe in from the dirt and rodent dung that can make you sick. It's not always a given, but it's always a possibility.
Animal protector and vegetarian here, but I totally agree with putting your health and financial investment of your homestead first. I hope you can develop an effective system that works for you both and the pesty animals.
So what’s the score? 1st day was 13 and 3, but you haven’t said since! Someone mentioned an electric fence, wondering if you could build a mini electrified barrier? You are both resourceful and creative…
Good job
Also on Yt find home made food to bind them......strap down those traps
💡👍Brilliant !!
As someone who works in the pest control industry, there are baits that's will help knock down the population and not cause any secondary harm to other animals :)
Heck no they gotta go.. you're doing the right thing about the rats in my opinion:)
I have a suggestion.
Maybe try the method to eliminate moles in the garden.
Find an active hole/tunnel. Insert a lit 15 minute road flare. The critter will be gassed to die.
The rat holes may completely catch fire, so use good judgement.
Alright guys time to move back to Florida!
I live in my rv next to a farm field part of the year and have lots of mice. I use a bucket without the lid and put peanut butter inside just out of reach and get mice all the time. I had to make a screen cover for the whole bucket to keep other animals from knocking it over. I also use mouse X that helps to thin them out. It’s not a poison and won’t hurt other animals. I also have to cover that. I also use mouse traps where animals can’t get into them. Good luck.
If you are not making the progress that you would like to make and are capable of making, it is simply because your goals are not clearly defined.
I grew up on a farm and rats mainly got into feeders. They would borrow under the feeders and have babies. I learned that they can have up to 12 babies at a time at least 6 times a year. They would eat at least 7 times their body weight every 3 months. It was costly so we had 2 big German Shepherds and my dad would go under the feeder lift it up and the rats would run out and the shepherds would kill them so fast. They would miss one or two. I worked in a lab where they raised rats, mice, rabbits the rats and mice would pop out a litter about every month or so. I don’t want to say what happen to the babies but I quit after about 6 months because of it. It just got to me after a while with all the killing. 😢
Have you thought about putting up plastic decoy owls or hawks? Might scare them away.
There are multiple rodent poisons available that wont harm dogs.....I would be using them liberally.
The bucket and water is best! Mine isn’t fancy at all - I just set it by a step so they can get to the top and smear the peanut butter on the other side and ba da boom bye bye pesky pest!
I would put more buckets in the landscaping
So has the ceiling got quieter at night now?
Oh yeah! We rarely hear them now.
I live in the Arizona desert with the same issue. I found that solar power Christmas lights strung out in your parking space works. Get a light show going under your vehicle. I have been using this method for 9 months successfully. This is one part of the solution that has worked for me so far. As for the burrowing rodents, still searching for the answer?
I recommend getting a few electric rat traps as well to put in your worse spots.
I’ve been told They as well as bugs do not like the smell of Lysol liquid, I have been spraying my cupboards haven’t seen any, I live in a mobile home . Try it!
Read that mint leave or speament smells keeps mice out of car parts read on line things for mice control
10:29
I'm an exterminator and you need to put the rat stations against the wall as mice and rats use there whiskers to travel the wall. Be careful in vehicles as they will eat through the wiring in cars and it will cost thousands to fix.
My father used to raise birds when we were young and the rats would build nests under the cages. He would just keep digging them out. Not sure what chemicals he used then to kill them
lol it’s so nice they’re feeding the birds to attract pests.
We live in our RV and had the same problem with mice. I read that having Irish Spring soap in the house might deter them. I cut up small pieces and put them in open sandwich bags and have them all over the RV. We haven't had a problem since, don't know if that's just a coincidence. It was a cheap and easy way to start since we can't really use traps inside.
I’d make a metal large chicken coop to park in
Pellet guns are useful 😮
We are lucky that there is not smellovision
The rodent's are not getting smarter. You've simply caught and disposed of wisely the ones that called the area you put in the traps 'home ground'. Move your traps to different spots! See if you then catch some different ones on their home grounds. And then leave some permanently set around your home. You'll catch the ones trying to set up your houses as their territory this way.
When the rats get used to the spring tapes, do the ol’ switchero. Bait em every day but don’t set em for several nights and then bait them and set em to give ‘em a lill surprise 😉
Edit: I’ve not tried this but a hose from the exhaust and poke the other end into the midden and run the engine for a while, and see if they pack their bags. Might stop the babies from growing up?
Cayenne pepper Sprinkle all over your home perimeter, where you park. Rope lights along home base, under cars. They hate pepper, and light. Bucket of water with a ramp up to it...they fall in and drown.gross but it works. Clear up piles where they can nest. Wood piles off the ground. And finally...get a couple cats. You can do an outside house for them, and when you travel I am sure your neighbors would love to borrow them.
The coyotes will kill the cats. Also, rodents are not immune to pepper. I have bird feeders and pepper is only a deterrent for squirrels.
Gator here from Florida and I just want to say yall are doing a good job ! Don't pay attention to all the complainers. Rats and mice produce at a fast rate.....so now you are help feeding the predators of the rats. 👍🎉🎉👍
Keep up the good fight !!! Proud of yall !!!
We have similar issues with destructive packrats here. But I have concerns that other animals could get badly injured by the big snap traps. Your thoughts?
Corn Bread Mix combined with baking soda. works great and non-toxic for all animals
I hate rats and mice and cringe when I have to deal with them. Good luck!
I thought the metal ones are supposed to be secured to something. Like wood.
conntraceptol makes a mouse/rat birth control. I've used it where I live and I've noticed a decrease in activity, the ones I do see seem to only be adults. Adding it to what you're currently doing should help bring down their population by a lot.
watch shawn woods for best dealing with mice and rats to help control the problem
My vacation rental attracts mice. I pay for a quarterly rodent bait station service. The bait stations have small openings to keep the other animals away from them. During the summer rental season, I often go to monthly service if need be.
We use these ultra sonic devises that produce a sound rats and mice can’t tolerate. We use to have a terrible rat problem. Only problem is they require power. But these things work. Also, they hate the smell of dryer sheets. I put them into my RV and the engine compartment. Keeps the rodents away.
Don't put food out even in traps that will attract them. I use peppermint oil to repel them never had a issue since. Good luck
I have a cat and she's a voracious mouser.
A cat! We have a wonderful outdoor cat who lives in our greenhouse. We have a set-up for food and water so we can leave for months. It's worked for years. Absolutely no mice or pack rats.
Coyote food
RATS I hope you can eliminate them from your Element life. Best of luck!!
How do kill them once there in the bucket trap?
Electric fence is one way to get rid of them
There are plenty of chemical rat traps that no other animal can get into
Need night scope and pellet gun
I raised Gardner snakes in IL that got rid of my roach and mice problem. Cinder block basement was a great place for the snakes to winter and then hunt. The basement was so warm some of the snakes stayed in the cinder blocks and hunted year round.
lol the telephone game is strong in you. They’re not gardeners. No snakes are gardeners. You raised them and you don’t even know what to call them.
You need a cat. Or two
Honestly, when it come to rats and mice I draw the line. They are very smart and multiply quickly. Sounds like you have an infestation and need to take more drastic measures! That’s just the reality. You can be humane but when dealing with an infestation, you just have to use all options! Just saying !!!
Get a few cats
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
You might get some flack about this- but I support your endeavors. They are awfully cute but can cause a lot of destruction and carry fleas and Hantavirus. I tried some of the humane traps and found them expensive and 100% worthless. Your effort will pay off if you are persistent. Is there a way to attract hawks and owls?
no humane capturing for you guys. Those Victor traps are no joke. I am a fan of the bucket trap because it can be used for live capturing also.
I would just put decon out
That would kill any other wildlife that ate the rodents he deposited in the desert.
No cats for that exact reason. Thank you Shannon.
Get a orange kitty they kill rats
Coyote food
u need barn 🐈 cats
Sadly, cats are not enough when there this many rats.
Just adding more to the coyote diet!!
Cat
Coyotes
Use dynamite.
get 4-5 cats
They'd be instant coyote food.
Have you considered glue traps?
Get a cat.... I have 5 mouse traps never have a mouse problem. :)
Have you ever fed the birds right outside your property? It’s a good way to try to draw mice and rats. They don’t care about cats which is why cats love to munch on them. It’s not your mouse traps keeping them away, it’s the fact that you’re not attracting them. There are about four feral and stray cats that live around my house and we get frequented by mice and rats. We feed the birds outside. :)
The problem is you think you have time. The hours have a way of turning into days, the days into weeks, the weeks into years, and the years into a lifetime.
How different would your life and memories be today ( or ten years later) if you had done that ? I am a 71 year old guy from Albuquerque NM - believe me twenty years from now you will be more
disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So go out be bold and you enjoy life to the fullest !
That's their home too they were there long before you came just put a distraction away from where you are and use spearmint etc things and smells that they don't like you have computers check it out
I've heard packrats don't like light, and people put string lights under their cars to keep the rats away. But I've seen them out during the day so that must be poppycock. I get annoyed when my neighbors kill snakes because they're free pest control.
Get a terrier , a cat , and a live trap that you activate at night and empty daily . You need to get rid of them . They will attract snakes , and carry hunna ( don't know if it's spelled correctly ) among other disease . Cross contamination etc . Do not feel bad at all it is a matter of health and safety .
You’re literally using the Internet to make a comment and you can’t do a tiny quick little research. Lahazahay. 😅
It will work for the stupid rats, however the smarter ones will learn from the mistakes of the stupid ones!
welp. i gotta swamp and there are critters everywhere. traps will do nothin for ya. you hafta setup cameras and dust down some flour (to see their footsteps) to see where they're goin. and wherever they go... SHEET METAL. don't let em in. you have no choice but to turn your house into a fortress. and yeah cats are dumb. coyotes do more than they'll do.
Get a pellet rifle with a night vision scope and go to town. Leave the dead ones around the edges of the property to attract predators.
Just get a couple cats and a terrier dog
Coyotes!!
The rodents are very very resourceful and stinky. Inn b live in the desert. They would make a nest in my bbq or dig a hole and Ho get my dogs poo and make a nest under my plants. I bought live traps and captured and relocated them. Over and over. Fake snakes didn’t work. Owls. Nope. Eventually the only thing that works is finding them a place that they like more than my yard. Someone else’s yard
Why not burn the middins
With what fire hydrant do you put out the fire if it starts getting out of hand O smart one? 😂