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bloomer

  • Joined Aug 2010
  • leslie, fife
  • i have chickens, sheep and opinions!!!
Best bait for mouse traps please!!!
« on: April 21, 2014, 02:04:11 pm »
I have just cleared out my garage (wow i had a lot of crap)


I have found evidence of a mouse (not sure how fresh)


I need to set some traps to be safe, never done this before so whats the best bait!!!


Oh and before anyone suggests it there is no humane option as far as mousy is concerned he's eaten the fuel pipe on my wakker plate and its going to be a pig to repair!!!

Sbom

  • Joined Jul 2012
  • Staffordshire
Re: Best bait for mouse traps please!!!
« Reply #1 on: April 21, 2014, 02:11:59 pm »
Chocolate! Our mice just love it  :thumbsup:

Bramblecot

  • Joined Jul 2008
Re: Best bait for mouse traps please!!!
« Reply #2 on: April 21, 2014, 02:33:31 pm »
Mars bars!

cans

  • Joined May 2013
Re: Best bait for mouse traps please!!!
« Reply #3 on: April 21, 2014, 03:21:02 pm »
chocolate, mars bars, cheese, raisins.............
If you are going to hit them hard then give them a choice.... you are bound to get some of them.
don't set just a single trap set lots, you will get them quicker

plumseverywhere

  • Joined Apr 2013
  • Worcestershire
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Re: Best bait for mouse traps please!!!
« Reply #4 on: April 21, 2014, 03:32:23 pm »
Peanut butter on toast, chocolate, oats, some say cooked chicken legs but haven't tried that one!
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ballingall

  • Joined Sep 2008
  • Avonbridge, Falkirk
Re: Best bait for mouse traps please!!!
« Reply #5 on: April 21, 2014, 04:30:01 pm »
Snickers bars, gives them the peanut smell and taste as well as chocolate. Agree, set two or three traps.


Beth

SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
  • Cornwall
  • Rarely short of an opinion but I mean well
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Re: Best bait for mouse traps please!!!
« Reply #6 on: April 21, 2014, 04:49:25 pm »
Peanut butter.  Best by far, it sticks to the peg so they have to get right onto the trap to lick it off.   Anything that falls off the trap is likely to result in a sprung trap no mouse, or a mouse caught by a paw or the tip of its nose - not nice for you and especially horrid for the mouse.

Set traps in places mice would like to go - alongside something, dark corridor type places.  Sometimes you can see droppings that tell you where they run, so set them along there.
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bloomer

  • Joined Aug 2010
  • leslie, fife
  • i have chickens, sheep and opinions!!!
Re: Best bait for mouse traps please!!!
« Reply #7 on: April 21, 2014, 04:51:27 pm »
theres an obvious run so have set 2 along that...


not convinced mouse is still in the garage this is just me being doubly sure...

AndynJ

  • Joined Sep 2010
  • uk
  • Says it as it is. don't like it don't look
Re: Best bait for mouse traps please!!!
« Reply #8 on: April 21, 2014, 06:20:22 pm »
Chicken pellets
Unopened cereal boxes
Dinner suit
Electrical cables
Anything of any value

oops you mean't poison i'll let someone answer that then

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midtown

  • Joined Oct 2013
  • English Lake District
Re: Best bait for mouse traps please!!!
« Reply #9 on: April 21, 2014, 07:17:37 pm »
Chocolate and/or peanut butter. Works for rats as well! :thumbsup:
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Womble

  • Joined Mar 2009
  • Stirlingshire, Central Scotland
Re: Best bait for mouse traps please!!!
« Reply #10 on: April 21, 2014, 07:33:45 pm »
The best bait we ever found was snickers sandwich spread. It turned out to be far too sickly for human consumption, but it was oh so smelly, peanuty, chocolatey and sweet - the mice went absolutely mad for it!  ;D
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Deere

  • Joined Jun 2012
  • Peak District
Re: Best bait for mouse traps please!!!
« Reply #11 on: April 21, 2014, 08:49:42 pm »
Peanut butter works a treat, far too mean to use a piece of Snickers!
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chrismahon

  • Joined Dec 2011
  • Gascony, France
Re: Best bait for mouse traps please!!!
« Reply #12 on: April 22, 2014, 07:30:55 am »
Another vote for peanut butter here. But I have found that a chocolate drop melted onto the metal bait arm extremely effective. The mice can't eat it without setting off the trap, so the bait lasts for ages.

paddy1200

  • Joined Dec 2013
Re: Best bait for mouse traps please!!!
« Reply #13 on: April 23, 2014, 02:34:53 pm »
Have caught 8 in the past week and have no bait on the traps at all, just place them where the mice run and bingo!

Steph Hen

  • Joined Jul 2013
  • Angus Scotland.
Re: Best bait for mouse traps please!!!
« Reply #14 on: April 23, 2014, 05:15:18 pm »
Snickers bars, gives them the peanut smell and taste as well as chocolate. Agree, set two or three traps.


Beth

Or peanut butter. Don't just rest a piece of chocolate on the trap as they can carefully sneak off with it. Multiple traps set right next to each other... I wonder if more mice come to investigate (or feed on) their fallen comrade, but this seems to work quite well too.

 

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