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Anonymous Tue 17 Jun 2025 02:29:33 No.2824910 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>2824913 >>2824926 >>2825004 >>2825335 >>2829327 >>2830009 >>2830011

What do you guys generally use as a preferred mousetrap? (to protect your chicken coops & barns that are /out/, of course)
I've been using snap traps with this exact style of trigger, they work really good, nice and sensitive.
For bait, tootsie rolls work best, since they gotta work for it; peanut butter is good as an attractant too.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 17 Jun 2025 02:57:10 No.2824913 Report

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>>2824910
Have you tried a bucket with a spinning dowel cover in peanut butter? I hear those work well.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 17 Jun 2025 02:59:11 No.2824915 Report

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>>2824913
falling door traps work better

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 17 Jun 2025 05:50:58 No.2824926 Report

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>>2824910
Something like these with teeth
https://www.amazon.com/Snapper-Mouse-Trap-Indoor-Home/dp/B08DP6J2ZC/

I like it better than wood ones because you don't touch the mouse when emptying it, just squeeze the back parts and shake it off.

I bait with peanut halves, because I can leave them in a jar in the shed and they don't freeze.

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Anonymous Tue 17 Jun 2025 06:20:16 No.2824928 Report

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>>2824926
hows the durability on those?
today i grabbed one of these, and it got a mouse a few minutes ago (currently watching a raccoon eat it now)
apparently these don't last that long though

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Anonymous Tue 17 Jun 2025 17:49:28 No.2825004 Report

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>>2824910
Stupidly expensive and they die in like 6 months but they kill so many rats.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 18 Jun 2025 01:50:15 No.2825059 Report

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>>2824928
>apparently these don't last that long though
surely you could make the same thing out of stamped sheet metal right? or would it be too effective at beheading rats? or maybe the golems want to keep selling it
lots to think about

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Anonymous Wed 18 Jun 2025 02:41:00 No.2825063 Report

Quoted By: >>2825064 >>2825425

>>2825059
its just to sell more
they generally used to be made of metal, but they lasted decades, so less were sold
there were thousands of mouse trap designs on the market, but now when you look for ones available, its only ever like 5 main designs, which are either made of wood that rots or splits, and plastic which sears after multiple uses or isn't sensitive enough to work well

imagerelated is actually one of the very few metal mouse traps i've seen still available (though amazon)
the only other one is a copy from a different company thats lower quality

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 18 Jun 2025 02:54:12 No.2825064 Report

Quoted By: >>2825065

>>2825063
thats cast metal though, not sheet metal, massive difference
sheet metal can be fixed by your self with pliers and a soldering iron in the worst cases

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 18 Jun 2025 03:01:04 No.2825065 Report

Quoted By: >>2825066

>>2825064
its literally stamped sheet metal, what are you talking about?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 18 Jun 2025 03:37:34 No.2825066 Report

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>>2825065
lol i didnt open the image
anyway the trap i was imagining had two stamped parts pinned together with a bit of spring steel between them

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 18 Jun 2025 14:14:29 No.2825148 Report

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>>2824928
lol, i use these too. fuckers are getting inside my hottub and making a home there.
i set a pair up at dusk, and catch a mice within 15 minutes.
last time i set them at night and went to bed.
in the morning i found them licked clean of peanut butter and scattered across my lawn with bite marks on them. i think a racoon came buy and got its snout trapped.

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Anonymous Thu 19 Jun 2025 16:34:16 No.2825320 Report

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does this actually work?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 19 Jun 2025 18:36:11 No.2825334 Report

Quoted By: >>2825337 >>2827986 >>2829909

This works great if you don't care about the mice dying a slow death. It's cheap and easy to dispose of.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 19 Jun 2025 18:43:15 No.2825335 Report

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>>2824910
>protecting chickens from mice
What kind of bitchass chickens are you raising? Healthy chickens will eat anything mice would be interested in, and kill rodents (up to young rats) and even martens whenever they see them.
Get some Maran or Malay chickens, don't cut spurs or beaks, and the mice will be gone within a few weeks.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 19 Jun 2025 18:59:30 No.2825337 Report

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>>2825334
I hope you have the same kind of death

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Anonymous Fri 20 Jun 2025 04:19:47 No.2825425 Report

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>>2825063
update
i got some now of those things now, they're actually impressive
very sturdy, super sensitive yet easy to set, and the pad works great to use a peanut as bait too
not the most strongest spring, but the teeth make up for it (you could always change the springs out anyway)
i got one i've been triggered 100+ times & its perfectly fine so far, its probably the best mouse trap i've had now

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 01 Jul 2025 09:58:09 No.2827088 Report

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>>2825425
so far with that trap i've now caught 5 mice, all without any damage to the trap whatsoever
all i use for bait is just a single peanut's half, it doesn't melt in the humidity & heat, and it stays stuck to the bait-spike without issue

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 07 Jul 2025 09:58:58 No.2827986 Report

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>>2825334
Anon those are soo overpriced it should be criminal

https://www.amazon.com/Glue-Mouse-Traps-Indoor-Home/dp/B005IMZ9TC/ref=sr_1_8?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.-NbGPMnBQULcCtjJ8FhhfoR4z4zILNb0DWAWE5z36c9l8S3zqb45QvUymmBVhJZI9bXqPiXI529r-VArsNPt4PGEKDhycqc8mXV55XzVLAIQeiDXbosLxB5I-YWA_V0F5M7g2y7U1tB-ggtjAFNrrQe1FSLqutMMf45iPVEEqQfmrf9KV5rsHuLx6-nF9ss4Qu7_YRanqhx5v7Vem08kOT7S95lP8ZkiuAphRNlWDs8ucM9HtKlNIw9XcoJsffNwztOMqQqta7WtXYNBR3PPnBPgnW_ORVnBrpKYvoiYStk.zWr6U48__Wi_dO0vHEe07g7ie7YYbL-oVH0DrvjA390&dib_tag=se&keywords=glue+trap&qid=1751882248&sr=8-8

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Anonymous Mon 07 Jul 2025 10:03:41 No.2827988 Report

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>>2827986
everything past "B005IMZ9TC" is tracking data, don't leave it when you post
all thats required is "amazon.com/dp/B005IMZ9TC";

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Anonymous Mon 07 Jul 2025 10:39:23 No.2827991 Report

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Just use this

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Anonymous Tue 15 Jul 2025 06:20:01 No.2829253 Report

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The BEST and I mean the BEST method for catching mice in my experience is to take one of these traps (it doesn't have to be the exact brand just the same style with the plastic trigger) then take some dog kibble or something similar to it and hot glue individual pieces (dont use too much glue just a dab) to the the trigger, this makes sure that itll trigger even for a careful mouse, its kinda overkill but its what works for me

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Anonymous Tue 15 Jul 2025 17:58:02 No.2829327 Report

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>>2824910
Snap traps don’t need more bait than some cotton batting. Set them up like pic related next to each other. It exploits the mouse’s tendency to run along walls. If they hop over the first plate the second gets them.

Also to make it easier for yourself get the plastic clip style traps so you can just open them up and fling the dead mouse into the grass and don’t have to touch mouse guts on the bar. Also less chance for you to smash your fingers.

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Anonymous Tue 15 Jul 2025 18:00:46 No.2829328 Report

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>>2829327
If you want to really hammer them get an A24. It has a bait chamber and a pneumatic powered hammer that installs them then resets.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 18 Jul 2025 22:47:02 No.2829909 Report

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>>2825334
Just goto the lowest cheap grocery/dollar store type and get mass amounts of these sticky traps.
I get em at mexican flavor cheap stores and always get the mouse.
I put the individual sticky panel with the caught mouse into a cheap plastic grocery bag and toss in in the trash can outside.
It's usually still alive so it can meditate on its mouse life and how it should have been running around my kitchen and storage rooms while it dies over a few days.

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Anonymous Sat 19 Jul 2025 08:59:41 No.2829989 Report

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mice have been getting through a certain area for a month now, i've had a trap on it since then, but its gonna shit out eventually (still doing good though, so props to that)
in preparation, i've created a kill box to contain traps, that way the cats can't fuck with the metal ones & hurt themselves which i switch & the area is technically sealed too
the chicken wire on the ammo box gives way for a mouse to think its open, and it also lets me see from afar if its sprung

the reason i don't just seal the way entirely, is because its at an area thats not really sealable
plus, they'll always try to get in either way, so its best to just kill them in the end

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 19 Jul 2025 13:01:20 No.2830009 Report

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>>2824910
If youre not using a bucket traps youre doing it wrong.
If there's 1 mouse there's a family. Bucket traps are set and forget so you can kill a lot with 1 trap.
Just grab a home depot or Costco bucket, fill at least 4 inches but I tend to go higher cause evaporation. If you add dawn soap in the water too it removes the oils in the fur that help them float or something forgot.
You can buy spinning rods where you put peanut butter in the middle and they end up spinning off into the water and drowning. Theres also the falling traps too that can work. I've literally set it up with floss before with success. But not all traps work the same. I work for usfs/blm/fish and wildlife and one of them tried it with a bear can over a steel wire and it did not work as well as the ones I tried.
Mines worked for chipmunks mice 1 rat. Over a hundred mice. Rats tend to be too smart and the traps too small for it. You'd want like a garbage can for those bastards but I can speak from experience as my job depended on them not nesting in my vehicle.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 19 Jul 2025 13:23:26 No.2830011 Report

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>>2824910
>protecting chickens from mice
Anon, I don't know how to tell you, but chickens don't need to be protected from mice. Mice need to be protected from chickens.
My rooster (which, to be fair, is a combat breed) even attacks hedgehogs and martens, and I've seen hens killing and eating mice twice so far. Probably would see it more often if the martens and cats didn't kill most mice before they get into the coop.

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