What's good bait for a mouse trap?

What's good bait for a mouse trap?

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Chocmonster

918 posts

210 months

Monday 3rd March 2008
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My Mum recently caught two mice in her garage by using bits of cheap (25p a bar) chocolate from Morrisons in the traps. She said she wasn't going to spend anymore than that on them! hehe

968CSReading

3,029 posts

217 months

Monday 3rd March 2008
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I have used crumbled up biscuits, custard creams seem a fave.

refresher

1,166 posts

218 months

Monday 3rd March 2008
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Davi said:
Cadbury's Dairy Milk. Works a treat.
we've had 2 cars at work which we've had to "de-mouse" due the mices love of the dairy milk (they got transported into the cars in boxes of) costs a bloody fortune getting mice out of a car i can tell you...now the cars have to be stripped to make sure nothing important has been nibbled, chewed, shat on etc!

SirSimon

6,808 posts

202 months

Monday 3rd March 2008
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as said Chocolate. Im on 12 Mice now bandit

pedantlewis

288 posts

196 months

Monday 3rd March 2008
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A piece of Mars bar, helps you work, rest and exterminate vermin...

NDA

21,488 posts

224 months

Monday 3rd March 2008
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Cadburys Fruit and Nut seems to be the most effective - quite fancy a nibble on one myself at the moment.

Squeak!

AndyAudi

3,007 posts

221 months

Monday 3rd March 2008
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Piece of advice,

"The early bird catches the worm, but the second mouse get's the cheese"

Keep setting until the bait remains.

Mars bars are good, as the caramel makes it harder to come off, however it depends if the rodents have a decent alternative source of food. Apples are good for catching rodents when they have plenty of dry food.

Re the suggestion for the 12bore, not practical in the house so use a live catch trap (these are good if you have quite a few mice as you can catch 4 or 5 at a time) and let them go in a field for a bit of sport.

NDA

21,488 posts

224 months

Monday 3rd March 2008
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AndyAudi said:
Re the suggestion for the 12bore, if you have quite a few mice as you can catch 4 or 5 at a time) and let them go in a field for a bit of sport.
Is that sport?

AndyAudi

3,007 posts

221 months

Monday 3rd March 2008
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NDA said:
AndyAudi said:
Re the suggestion for the 12bore, if you have quite a few mice as you can catch 4 or 5 at a time) and let them go in a field for a bit of sport.
Is that sport?
Yes, to some it would be, they would have a sporting chance of escape, and it may require a degree of skill (although a 12 bore is perhaps a bit "overkill" )

(I have never done so I might add)


Edited by AndyAudi on Monday 3rd March 14:30

NDA

21,488 posts

224 months

Monday 3rd March 2008
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I'm all for getting rid of vermin - and for shooting (which I do), but I'd never heard of shooting mice with a 12 gauge and calling it sport.

Live and learn. smile

Heskey

4,048 posts

192 months

Monday 3rd March 2008
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I'm with spikey on this one; be a man - Use yer hands!

Wings

5,810 posts

214 months

Monday 3rd March 2008
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Non salted nuts/bird nuts.

hugoagogo

23,378 posts

232 months

Monday 3rd March 2008
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Wings said:
Non salted nuts/bird nuts.
yep, the salt is bad for 'em

dr.sickman

5,006 posts

221 months

Monday 3rd March 2008
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How many mousetraps are you trying to catch?

getmecoat

bigTee

Original Poster:

5,546 posts

220 months

Tuesday 4th March 2008
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dr.sickman said:
How many mousetraps are you trying to catch?

getmecoat
hehe

TigerK

4,285 posts

255 months

Tuesday 4th March 2008
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Rat poison. Better safe than sorry, and why waste good chocolate?

patmahe

5,744 posts

203 months

Tuesday 4th March 2008
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I know this might sound crazy but I've found that mice like cheese biggrin HTH

schmalex

13,616 posts

205 months

Tuesday 4th March 2008
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Nuts & raisins. We caught 10 mice in our pantry with this combo last week

bigTee

Original Poster:

5,546 posts

220 months

Wednesday 12th March 2008
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got one bounce


And chocolate was the winner!!!!

Sciroccology

29,908 posts

229 months

Wednesday 12th March 2008
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mickken said:
Ferrero Roche
"Ambassador, with these mouse-traps you are really spoiling us."