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Those sizes are also for adult mice. Adolescent mice can fit through smaller holes, then grow off of food foraged in the new environment. I seal everything bigger than 1/4"
Seeing mice fit through the flat gaps is the most interesting. It seems like that should be impossible but its not. Their actual skull and such must be super small.
i had a very old TV in my closet that my parents didn't know about, my mouse once _climbed in_ somehow! for the life of me i could not figure out where that was even possible!
Crazy. I saw a chipmunk get stuck squeezing through the bars of a squirrel trap. I had to lube it with margarine to get it out, I thought I was going to have to cut the trap to free it
Micromys minutus , 5-6 cm long body with 5-7 cm tail , (4"-5" over all) and weight 4 - 6 g (0,18 oz) , that mouse gets in from very tiny holes. 6 mm , 1/4" hole and it comes in . Then again it does not live in American continents .
Yes, they sneak into my house every winter, the cats always make short work of them though. I try to save them (to put them outside) when I hear the commotion, but sometimes I'm not fast enough. Don't want my cats getting a disease from eating one. Barehand catching mice is a challenge, I always felt an accomplishment lol. Surprisingly, they cant bite hard enough to break your skin, at least my skin anyway.
When I built this house 20 years ago I ensured no rodent entry. I encircled the entire house up to its waist with metal lathe regardless of whether it was siding or stone. Every piece of exterior trim fits perfectly, no gaps. Being surrounded by woods and brush no precautions were overlooked. Happy to say not a single mouse has breached our threshold. I do late summer inspections to be sure the house is ready for any invasion both in fall/winter and spring. Additionally, all trim and siding is a Hardie product so no wood rot or holes being created by those nasty little devils. The perimeter is also kept clear of debris and our firewood is a 60’ walk from the house.
And then, one day, you leave the door open just a crack while getting groceries out of the car and ZOOM! You've got a mouse in the house. Happens to all of us.
@@US5JHNaeNae I will confess that tree frogs weren’t a thought until we found a few in a bathroom. After some thought it dawned on me it was the bath closest to the vent stack. So the vent stacks now have screen caps on them. Still no mice.
There is an issue with this test which is incentive. A mouse might be able to fit through a smaller hole/gap if it needs to but due to the high availability of food in this test they might not have felt the need to.
fascinating. still trying to seal my house up i bought back in feb. started hearing some scratching noises in ceiling over closet which is just down, perpendicular from covered front porch. noticed some 1/2 inch gaps i need to fill in ceiling of porch area and i see in the attic where its at. so traps are placed and holes are sealed.
My mice escaped once after I left the cage door open. I found them hiding under my bed and they ran from me back to their cage, then proceeded to just squeeze through the bars to get back in (avoiding using the open door). This was when I realised they could come and go whenever they pleased.
When my roommate had rats, they were convinced I would fit through the bars because they'd very carefully bite on to the edge of my fingernails and try to pull my hands into the cage. Also one time one of them escaped and we found out that our kitchen cabinet didn't have trim on the side behind the fridge and he was hiding in there. We got him out though, though I had to move the fridge so we could reach him. There were three of us on a rat rescue mission, and it took a few hours, and I'm pretty sure we all looked insane, trying to outsmart a pocket-puppy and having trouble. But rats are smart
Great video, thanks! I was just so upset tonight to find droppings around my kitchen counter. I had been renovated last year and the work isn't complete. There's a crack where the seam meets the wall. I stuffed some Xcluder in there. Fingers crossed. I can't throw away all of my kitchenware, any advice on how to properly sanitize after the droppings? Thanks!
Thank you so much for this presentation. I am working on mouse proofing my studio and this really gives a clear idea of what I am dealing with. Hope you are mouse free!
Why are diameters in inches and widths in millimeters? Thanks for the video, nice experiment. The mouse nets sold here in the Netherlands have 6x6 mm holes. Well in line with your expectations for baby mice.
Just found three mice in my windshield washer reservoir in my truck. Only way in was through a quarter inch diameter hose. No chew marks or holes elsewhere.
this is what people think of your comments, this was a reply to me beating you to it: "Either Shawn doesn’t care/he washes his hands after handing the mice, or even he has been vaccinated against those diseases. Infernally the other commenter is behaving like a troll/bot and has spammed nearly all of Shawn’s videos, 😠 but I assume Shawn ignores him"
Mice love sunflower seeds. If you keep pet mice (or gerbils) and you give them food that includes sunflower seeds, they will pick out the sunflower seeds and leave everything else. They nibble round the edge of the seed case until it splits in two, then eat the kernel.
also keep in mind that a fat mouse wont fit in like one that hasn't eaten for a day or more. so go down one size lower then shown just to be sure. not only that but when anything gets hungry they get more willing, just because they didn't enter those smaller openings doesn't mean they can't, they where just unwilling because they just got a feast.
Thank God for spray foam the little bastards figured out how to remove the steel wool for me. I'm sure the combination works well but I went heavy on the rodent specific foam a few months ago and they haven't made it through.
I would wonder about motivation as a variable: If the mouse was trapped inside and desperate to get out, would it be more likely to try (and succeed) getting thru the 9/16th hole?
For him, anyway. Some of us who use imperial measurements for everything would just use a ruler (imperial) for both. That he used both indicates that he's in a country that uses both.
@Laura-kl7vi He's Canadian. We have to use both because of American products that use Imperial. Metric is just a vastly better system for taking measurements.
Actually, he should have done it all in metric. It is far more precise for these types of tests. But since he got a standard US drill set for making holes that was just the sizes in the set he used and has no bearing on why he chooses which system.
You, and Project Farm, have to be the two people I respect and trust the most, on UA-cam. Thank you for what you do. And BTW, the DizzyDunker is absolutely insane! I have two, and I’m ordering two more!
Kinda seems like the wood is lower on the right because it has no support. Is it still 14mm? Because there seems to be a gap bigger than 6mm at the top right
I remember back a few years ago my grandma had mice problems. I gound a small crack in the baseboard of the wall between the old part of the house (has a crawl space) and the new part of the house (slab floor) that was as big as a pencil, and i determined thats where they were coming from. As she was disagreeing with me, out pops a furball with two little, beady, black eyes.
I had chipmunks and mice come through a small gap between my refrigerant lines and the wall outside. I was shocked to observe a mouse come through like it’s no big deal
That's correct. When it comes to rodents in the muroid family (mice, rats, voles, hamsters, etc.), if the head fits, the rest of the body will follow. Their skeletons are built differently than a humans'. These animals are built for burrowing, and they evolved to fit through narrow tunnels. My hamster is a big, fluffy boy, and it's super entertaining to see him squeeze under a door gap, like magic.
This I think is your best video Shawn. I hope you can do a video on how high rats and mice can jump and also climb because I've read they are good at climbing heights as well. Well done.
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Those sizes are also for adult mice. Adolescent mice can fit through smaller holes, then grow off of food foraged in the new environment. I seal everything bigger than 1/4"
He did mention that towards the end of the video
Also the setup wasn't great for the gap. clearly it could shift
Watch the video. He mentions this lol
Hi Shawn, I'm so glad you did this test again. It's fantastic and very useful information. Informative, thumbs Up!
I had mice. I got a cat. The mice went away.
Would it help against rats?
Young rats yeah...@@guatf1
Yes @@guatf1
I'm grateful for a neighbor's kitty that stalks outside. It still barely puts a dent in the population, though
@@guatf1 Feral cats for sure
Seeing mice fit through the flat gaps is the most interesting. It seems like that should be impossible but its not. Their actual skull and such must be super small.
They're flexible
Why am I watching this? I have cats.
Lol
I have mice but 1 died
Because cats aren't an effective barrier against mice. The mice simply hide from predators
I don't know. Find something better to watch. 😮
Cats bring in mice to show you, at least mine did.
I've only ever seen one mouse in my house. It was being thrown around by my cat at the time. They know not to come in any more.
lol! Yup! They are amazing; I’ve seem mice flatten themselves too like pieces of paper to gain access.
I remember when Matthias Wandel did his videos years ago. It's nice to see a new version of it.
Same.
Yep, had forgotten that until reading your comment 👏👏
I love the “sound” in that series😂
Great comment, Matthias is who I've quoted for many years, always room for follow-up testing :)
To think that Matthias might have made a mistake, I can't imagine. He's so through its mind boggling
i had a very old TV in my closet that my parents didn't know about, my mouse once _climbed in_ somehow! for the life of me i could not figure out where that was even possible!
Did it act out rodent soap operas and advertise cat insurance?
Those TV had high voltage in them. You missed an opportunity to have fun here.
Very cute little mouse 🐭
Any hole smaller than their head is what i was always told
Crazy. I saw a chipmunk get stuck squeezing through the bars of a squirrel trap. I had to lube it with margarine to get it out, I thought I was going to have to cut the trap to free it
poor guy. thank you for freeing him instead of letting him die
Thanks for this Shawn... just as I thought, "What about a flat gap?"... you had us covered. Very thorough and well done!
Micromys minutus , 5-6 cm long body with 5-7 cm tail , (4"-5" over all) and weight 4 - 6 g (0,18 oz) , that mouse gets in from very tiny holes.
6 mm , 1/4" hole and it comes in . Then again it does not live in American continents .
Solid information and cute at the same time, thanks ! 😅
This video made me appriciate the Metric system more :P
Yes, they sneak into my house every winter, the cats always make short work of them though. I try to save them (to put them outside) when I hear the commotion, but sometimes I'm not fast enough. Don't want my cats getting a disease from eating one. Barehand catching mice is a challenge, I always felt an accomplishment lol. Surprisingly, they cant bite hard enough to break your skin, at least my skin anyway.
Nice work! Great quantitative testing.
i will also offer get the elaves off your lawn during fall mice will hide under them and use them to get closer to and into your house or garage
very interesting you have answered all of questions that i have had over the years on how big of a hole a mouse can squeeze through VERY COOL !!
When I built this house 20 years ago I ensured no rodent entry. I encircled the entire house up to its waist with metal lathe regardless of whether it was siding or stone. Every piece of exterior trim fits perfectly, no gaps. Being surrounded by woods and brush no precautions were overlooked. Happy to say not a single mouse has breached our threshold. I do late summer inspections to be sure the house is ready for any invasion both in fall/winter and spring. Additionally, all trim and siding is a Hardie product so no wood rot or holes being created by those nasty little devils. The perimeter is also kept clear of debris and our firewood is a 60’ walk from the house.
And then, one day, you leave the door open just a crack while getting groceries out of the car and ZOOM! You've got a mouse in the house. Happens to all of us.
@@dark14lifeNot in 20 years it hasn’t.
@@US5JHNaeNae I will confess that tree frogs weren’t a thought until we found a few in a bathroom. After some thought it dawned on me it was the bath closest to the vent stack. So the vent stacks now have screen caps on them. Still no mice.
No mice in my house either. Two cats, but no mice...
Thats really cool
There is an issue with this test which is incentive. A mouse might be able to fit through a smaller hole/gap if it needs to but due to the high availability of food in this test they might not have felt the need to.
Yes that’s what I was thinking
That mouse is on high alert ⚠️
Excellent experiment! Excellent vid!
5:03 this is exactly what the mice in my walls sounds like
fascinating. still trying to seal my house up i bought back in feb. started hearing some scratching noises in ceiling over closet which is just down, perpendicular from covered front porch. noticed some 1/2 inch gaps i need to fill in ceiling of porch area and i see in the attic where its at. so traps are placed and holes are sealed.
My mice escaped once after I left the cage door open. I found them hiding under my bed and they ran from me back to their cage, then proceeded to just squeeze through the bars to get back in (avoiding using the open door). This was when I realised they could come and go whenever they pleased.
What did you do about that? Or did you just let it be
@@EpicPlayer954 I just let it be. They seemed to like their home as they stayed with me for many years. :)
@@johnberwyn23 that’s super sweet. I’m happy for you and the experience
When my roommate had rats, they were convinced I would fit through the bars because they'd very carefully bite on to the edge of my fingernails and try to pull my hands into the cage. Also one time one of them escaped and we found out that our kitchen cabinet didn't have trim on the side behind the fridge and he was hiding in there. We got him out though, though I had to move the fridge so we could reach him. There were three of us on a rat rescue mission, and it took a few hours, and I'm pretty sure we all looked insane, trying to outsmart a pocket-puppy and having trouble. But rats are smart
Great video, thanks! I was just so upset tonight to find droppings around my kitchen counter. I had been renovated last year and the work isn't complete. There's a crack where the seam meets the wall. I stuffed some Xcluder in there. Fingers crossed. I can't throw away all of my kitchenware, any advice on how to properly sanitize after the droppings? Thanks!
Thank you so much for this presentation. I am working on mouse proofing my studio and this really gives a clear idea of what I am dealing with. Hope you are mouse free!
"A dime fits trough three quarters." 4:26
10 cents fits through 75 cents.
I don't need no stinking accountant!
Hehehe
@@Dwigt_Rortugal
This is great video bro 💪🏽🙌
Why are diameters in inches and widths in millimeters? Thanks for the video, nice experiment. The mouse nets sold here in the Netherlands have 6x6 mm holes. Well in line with your expectations for baby mice.
Baby mouse 'hold my beer'
💯 😂
Just found three mice in my windshield washer reservoir in my truck. Only way in was through a quarter inch diameter hose. No chew marks or holes elsewhere.
I've never seen a mouse in my life. But I've always had cats and dogs.
i have watched one fit through a vent in the floor with fins in a camper i still cannot believe it did it
Glad you did both holes and gaps. Great test
As always Shawn, gloves Shawn, gloves. Protect yourself and your family.
this is what people think of your comments, this was a reply to me beating you to it: "Either Shawn doesn’t care/he washes his hands after handing the mice, or even he has been vaccinated against those diseases. Infernally the other commenter is behaving like a troll/bot and has spammed nearly all of Shawn’s videos, 😠 but I assume Shawn ignores him"
Reporting for spamming.
Great video! Thanks!
I just fell in love with you, thanks to the gap experiment😂❤ Whole are all closed but I have floor air duct so let’s see.
You probably have mice because of all the sunflowers seeds on your floor. 😂
Mice love sunflower seeds. If you keep pet mice (or gerbils) and you give them food that includes sunflower seeds, they will pick out the sunflower seeds and leave everything else. They nibble round the edge of the seed case until it splits in two, then eat the kernel.
I loved watching this, so informative and interesting
1:17 that's proper science
Mice are cute but they’re a HUGE nuisance!
also keep in mind that a fat mouse wont fit in like one that hasn't eaten for a day or more. so go down one size lower then shown just to be sure.
not only that but when anything gets hungry they get more willing, just because they didn't enter those smaller openings doesn't mean they can't, they where just unwilling because they just got a feast.
Dude gave himself rodents for science! Way to go man. Humanity thanks you!
Great test.
I’m afraid of spiders, I seal everything including wall outlets 😂
How about the gap under a door?
He did a gap test after the hole test
Really nice job on the filming of everything, the construction and the mouse activity.
They'd have managed the 9/16ths if they hadn't stuffed themselves on the bigger holes..
Thank God for spray foam the little bastards figured out how to remove the steel wool for me. I'm sure the combination works well but I went heavy on the rodent specific foam a few months ago and they haven't made it through.
Set up cameras outside your house to find out exactly where there are getting in
I have watched every episode you have made for years. This is one of your best!!
In Denmark/Sweden, we have a rule that states that a gap must be less than 6 mm to be mouse-proof.
Neighbour Norway also
@@tullguttenyeah but norway isn’t real
We found a shriveled-up mouse carcass in a wine bottle in the attic. It apparently got drunk and OD'd.
In some ways, mice are more similar to us than different
@@shallowgod5539real, I always steal food from people and leave my diseases behind because i don’t care 🐀
I would wonder about motivation as a variable: If the mouse was trapped inside and desperate to get out, would it be more likely to try (and succeed) getting thru the 9/16th hole?
I have a mouse in my home in Amsterdam.
I have set 5 traps for the mouse,but no luck to catch this mouse.
My house is from 1865. I don’t think it’s possible to fill all the tiny holes that exist.
you have to wait several months for the revitalization of one of the following: saladin, william, or some other pairing
Imperial measurement for drill bits, metric for gaps....lol looks like imperial is to difficult to measure gaps....
Always one of you
For him, anyway. Some of us who use imperial measurements for everything would just use a ruler (imperial) for both. That he used both indicates that he's in a country that uses both.
@Laura-kl7vi He's Canadian. We have to use both because of American products that use Imperial. Metric is just a vastly better system for taking measurements.
Actually, he should have done it all in metric. It is far more precise for these types of tests. But since he got a standard US drill set for making holes that was just the sizes in the set he used and has no bearing on why he chooses which system.
Thank God I don't live in NY. But this was fascinating.
All this work when you could literally just get a Rat or Ferret.
What would a rat do?
You, and Project Farm, have to be the two people I respect and trust the most, on UA-cam.
Thank you for what you do.
And BTW, the DizzyDunker is absolutely insane!
I have two, and I’m ordering two more!
This is like @ProjectFarm for vermin
Exactly!!!
Thank you!!!
I’m still smiling at the idea of mice pancakes😝🐁🐁🐁🥞🥞🥞
I seen a mouse go through a hole like the the 3/8 My pinky finger wouldn't fit in it. My brain to this day is still trying to say it didn't happen...
Now do one for spiders 😂
i appreciate that at the end there you didnt have the bucket filled with water because that is incredibly inhumane. Thank you.
Kinda seems like the wood is lower on the right because it has no support. Is it still 14mm? Because there seems to be a gap bigger than 6mm at the top right
If the mouse is this big how old do you think this mouse is?
Leave the trap out without bait to make sure they can't fit through those smaller holes. If they didn't have to, they might not have
They are amazing little bastards.
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Thay glue is legit lol
I remember back a few years ago my grandma had mice problems. I gound a small crack in the baseboard of the wall between the old part of the house (has a crawl space) and the new part of the house (slab floor) that was as big as a pencil, and i determined thats where they were coming from. As she was disagreeing with me, out pops a furball with two little, beady, black eyes.
I had chipmunks and mice come through a small gap between my refrigerant lines and the wall outside. I was shocked to observe a mouse come through like it’s no big deal
So a dime is three quarters?
Loved the gap idea! Not only testing how small a hole a mouse can get in, but adding something else for more data
That is a whole lot of seeds and a whole lot of mouse turds.
I once had a run of many tiny mice in my traps and then I finally got the adults and the infestation stopped.
Thanks Shawn 🙏
Not scientific because you cant conclude they cant get through the hole, they might not have wanted to after porking their way through so much food.
Well done
i had mice, i got blue blocks, no more mice
I watched a mouse squeeze through 1/2" hole
Wouldn’t have believed it if I didn’t test myself a while back, I got one to fit into a corona beer bottle
In the long run, hole size doesnt matter. A mouse will chew a small hole bigger.
iirc, Matthias is in Ottawa Canada. those mice are metric.
Dime is reasonable, but 1/4 inch?😮
Well done experiment.
This was an excellent video Shawn, I am amazed at how small a gap the mice can squeeze through.
I remember reading if their heads fit, they fit. Thanks for showing it!
That's correct. When it comes to rodents in the muroid family (mice, rats, voles, hamsters, etc.), if the head fits, the rest of the body will follow. Their skeletons are built differently than a humans'. These animals are built for burrowing, and they evolved to fit through narrow tunnels. My hamster is a big, fluffy boy, and it's super entertaining to see him squeeze under a door gap, like magic.
The one on the left looks too small for a pinky.
Great video timing when Countdown/Woolworths in New Zealand has stores with mice/rats running around their supermarket stores!
Super info 👍
Better to mix that mesh with silicone I just use disposable glove when mixing
Wait doesn't he have pet wild mice?
Great video !
I have zero interest in the prevention aspect, but the informative interest aspect was *ABSOLUTELY AMAZING !¡! ¡!¡ !¡!*
mice get through cracks mostly, you need to make show on cracks not holes
This I think is your best video Shawn. I hope you can do a video on how high rats and mice can jump and also climb because I've read they are good at climbing heights as well. Well done.
This is the mouse version of Project Farm. Very good tests :)
Everyone loves Project Farm.😁