philscreens Posted March 22, 2015 Report Share Posted March 22, 2015 Builders have just started on derelict land next to my premises and mice have relocated have tried stuff from local hardware shop but still have mice anyone got any suggestions Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
39TDS Posted March 22, 2015 Report Share Posted March 22, 2015 Traps are cheap and very effective. I prefer Little Nipper. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonLuke Posted March 22, 2015 Report Share Posted March 22, 2015 Wire wool and lots of it Put it into every gap in every room you can Remember that a mouse can fit through the tube of a BIC biro... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fenboy Posted March 22, 2015 Report Share Posted March 22, 2015 Wire wool and lots of it Put it into every gap in every room you can Remember that a mouse can fit through the tube of a BIC biro... I have heard that said before , not sure how much truth is in it mind . Plenty of little nippers and use chocolate or peanut butter as bait. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KFC Posted March 22, 2015 Report Share Posted March 22, 2015 Put brick down with hollow uppermost. Put chocolate and corn in the hollow of the brick. Sprinkle it with pepper. When the mice go to get it then they'll sneeze and smash their heads on the brick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spinach Posted March 22, 2015 Report Share Posted March 22, 2015 +1. On the wire wool. Any gaps from outside fill them with it . Be very careful with storage space for bedding duvets as they'll nest . Keep all food contained and clean up spills once there in you've got to work methodically . Bait stations behind cupboards. Think the biro means they can get through a space as wide as a biro as they can move the bones in there skull to flatten it. All the houses close will be getting an invasion the ones with least resistance will get the most . John. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxy bingo Posted March 22, 2015 Report Share Posted March 22, 2015 milk bottles at 45 degrees with a bit of pork dripping in the bottom rest em on a flat surface so the mice can get in Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loriusgarrulus Posted March 22, 2015 Report Share Posted March 22, 2015 Speak to Evo he is ace at mouse hunting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timmytree Posted March 22, 2015 Report Share Posted March 22, 2015 I have heard that said before , not sure how much truth is in it mind . Plenty of little nippers and use chocolate or peanut butter as bait. They can get through even smaller than that, just put them through a mincer first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loriusgarrulus Posted March 22, 2015 Report Share Posted March 22, 2015 1/2"x1/2" weld mesh kept them out of our old aviaries. They can get through 1"x1/2" though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dekers Posted March 22, 2015 Report Share Posted March 22, 2015 1/2"x1/2" weld mesh kept them out of our old aviaries. They can get through 1"x1/2" though. I'm lost, there must be some other reason if that kept them out. A mouse will walk through that without touching the sides, it only needs about 6mm hole (1/4inch), a rat can get through a 12-13mm hole (I/2inch). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike737 Posted March 22, 2015 Report Share Posted March 22, 2015 (edited) These! Lethal and one-hand setting. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/X-6-MOUSE-TRAPS-REUSABLE-SPRING-LOADED-MICE-RODENT-RAT-PEST-CONTROL-/200968577884?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item2ecaa9235c Edit - bait with peanut butter. Mike Edited March 22, 2015 by Mike737 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westmids1987 Posted March 22, 2015 Report Share Posted March 22, 2015 get a cat? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrew f Posted March 22, 2015 Report Share Posted March 22, 2015 get a cat? :no: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve_b_wales Posted March 22, 2015 Report Share Posted March 22, 2015 Little Nipper traps and a piece of Mars bar on it. Worked well for me, a few years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loriusgarrulus Posted March 22, 2015 Report Share Posted March 22, 2015 I'm lost, there must be some other reason if that kept them out. A mouse will walk through that without touching the sides, it only needs about 6mm hole (1/4inch), a rat can get through a 12-13mm hole (I/2inch). Your right found this article on mice and rat proofing your building. Don't know why they stopped going in the aviary unless it was the parrots turned omnivorous.http://www.ianrpubs.unl.edu/pages/publicationD.jsp?publicationId=23 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricko Posted March 22, 2015 Report Share Posted March 22, 2015 No.1 garden gun ..seriously use traps, had one in the house the other day got it in 24 hrs using bread in the trap Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
panoma1 Posted March 22, 2015 Report Share Posted March 22, 2015 Break back Traps, baited with chocolate for house mice, cereal based bait for field mice, sticky boards if you know where they are most active (by appliance motors in the kitchen, under kitchen units, in airing cupboards, food cupboards etc......and a mouse can get under a door if you can get a pencil/biro under it! Poison bait from a hardware shop or other retail outlet is unlikely to work very well! P1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dekers Posted March 22, 2015 Report Share Posted March 22, 2015 Break back Traps, baited with chocolate for house mice, cereal based bait for field mice, sticky boards if you know where they are most active (by appliance motors in the kitchen, under kitchen units, in airing cupboards, food cupboards etc......and a mouse can get under a door if you can get a pencil/biro under it! Poison bait from a hardware shop or other retail outlet is unlikely to work very well! P1 Why would that be? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fisherman Mike Posted March 22, 2015 Report Share Posted March 22, 2015 Wire wool and lots of it Put it into every gap in every room you can Remember that a mouse can fit through the tube of a BIC biro... And eat 100 times their own weight, smell cheese in a tuppe ware box at the bottom of the ocean and jump over a house. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
panoma1 Posted March 22, 2015 Report Share Posted March 22, 2015 Because the % of poison in the premixed rodenticide available to the general public is reduced in line with H&S legislation, compared to the stronger professionally available stuff. Understrength over the counter rodenticide is/was probably a major contributory factor poison resistance built up in rats and mice (so called super rats and super mice) well that's my understanding anyway! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Westley Posted March 22, 2015 Report Share Posted March 22, 2015 (edited) Sorry Guy's, with all the peanut butter, mars bars etc. on those traps, surely the poor things meet with a sticky end ! Edited March 22, 2015 by Westley Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonLuke Posted March 22, 2015 Report Share Posted March 22, 2015 And eat 100 times their own weight, smell cheese in a tuppe ware box at the bottom of the ocean and jump over a house. Ah the naysayers I am on mobile but a quick youtube brings up this - wouldn't say those bars were much wider than a biro, I'm sure there is better out there to prove this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest cookoff013 Posted March 22, 2015 Report Share Posted March 22, 2015 10 cats. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dekers Posted March 22, 2015 Report Share Posted March 22, 2015 (edited) Because the % of poison in the premixed rodenticide available to the general public is reduced in line with H&S legislation, compared to the stronger professionally available stuff. Understrength over the counter rodenticide is/was probably a major contributory factor poison resistance built up in rats and mice (so called super rats and super mice) well that's my understanding anyway! I think you will find the % active ingredient for DIY and Trade in ready to use product is almost always the same these days, commonly 0.005% with the two most common, Difenacoum and Bromadiolone. The difference, and potential reason for resistance/immunity, is that Professionals allegedly know how to use the stuff, and do use it correctly, and DIY amateurs don't! Edited March 22, 2015 by Dekers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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