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Thread: Vermin problem
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26th June 2010, 10:51 AM #31
Mouse traps ...
Hi
if the problem is actually mice, I have seen mouse traps at my local Produce Shop designed to be left around grain and feed bags to catch multiple mice.
Most seem to be made from wire mesh with a top trap door, or a constricting conical entry.
You bait it, leave it for a few days, then drown the "catch" in water.
Some traps can take up to 20 or more.
In the mouse plagues of yesteryear, bulk traps for mice were made from a large metal drum with a baited overbalancing strip of wood. Mice just fell into the barrel, and were disposed of by fire or drowning.
Dont let the blighters die inside a wall cavity; the smell is unbelievable.
cheerio, mike
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26th June 2010, 12:12 PM #32
Back in the 1930s when crocodiles were considered vermin and their skins were valuable, my father (Petersemple's 2nd cousin twice removed or somesuch) used to get crocs the same way. Set a carcass (usually wild pig) with a parcel of carbide inside. When it went off inside the croc's stomach, it would come out of the water to die, and could be skinned.
Another bit of family history, Peter.
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26th June 2010, 01:22 PM #33
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26th June 2010, 01:25 PM #34anne-maria.
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26th June 2010, 01:26 PM #35
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26th June 2010, 01:28 PM #36
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29th June 2010, 06:11 PM #37
The Schwarzenegger solution:
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29th June 2010, 06:20 PM #38
My dearly beloved picked up some poison on Sunday and (Sod's Law) we haven't heard a single squeak or scratch since.
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I know you believe you understand what you think I wrote, but I'm not sure you realize that what you just read is not what I meant.
Regards, Woodwould.
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29th June 2010, 06:31 PM #39
It generally takes a few days for the bodies to start decomposing
One method Ive used for getting rid of rodents is as follows:
1. get a shoe box and build a ramp leading up side of same. Place large piece of Rochfords cheese in the box and leave next to mouse hole.
2. Repeat step 1 for 3-4 nights.
3. glue a razor blade on the top of the box side at the top of the ramp.
4. place the box outside the mousehole as before but this time dont put in any cheese.
5. mouse runs up ramp to top of same. Mouse nods head from side looking for the cheese....razor blade neatly chops off mouses head which then plops into the box.Whatever note you blow youre never more than a semitone away from the correct one....(Miles Davis)
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29th June 2010, 06:41 PM #40.
I know you believe you understand what you think I wrote, but I'm not sure you realize that what you just read is not what I meant.
Regards, Woodwould.
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29th June 2010, 10:13 PM #41
From the Backyard Poultry forum, where they're nearly as passionate about their chooks as woodies are about wood:
Cheers, Richard
"... work to a standard rather than a deadline ..." Ticky, forum member.
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29th June 2010, 11:09 PM #42Retired
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29th June 2010, 11:34 PM #43
A mate of mine has had success with plugging one o' those ultrasonic doovers into a power-point in his roof.
He reckons it works a treat... as it doesn't kill them, just makes them uncomfortable so they move out and become somebody elses' problem. So no mess to clean up before the maggots move in.
Perhaps you could try stapling a few bats to the rafters for a trial run before investing any pennies in an electronic fake?
- Andy Mc
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29th June 2010, 11:44 PM #44
There was a hell of a racket this evening and when I investigated, there was a rat scratching inside the wall cavity at about skirting height and a Fox Terrible going demented on the room side of the wall. She could hear and smell the rat and her head was twisting from side to side so rapidly I thought it was going to come off.
I stuffed the Missus up into the roof to distribute the poison and told her not to come down until she had all of the noisey buggers' carcasses..
I know you believe you understand what you think I wrote, but I'm not sure you realize that what you just read is not what I meant.
Regards, Woodwould.
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