5 Gallon Bucket mouse trap

[Trevmillion]

I was sick of rodents eating our expensive chicken feed so I put together one of these mouse traps from five gallon ideas. I think it's the easiest possible way to take care of mice without having to reset your trap after every catch.




Sorry if this has been covered before, I just wanted to share a great technique!

 

[Ridgerunner]

That explains the color. I was wondering about that.

I use water and just dump the dead mice in the run. The chickens have a lot of fun playing keep-away and they get the free protein. You can't do that with antifreeze.

 

[IAFarmGirl]

I've been thinking about building one of these. Problem is water would freeze here now and didn't want to use antifreeze because of overall toxicity...but windshield washer fluid would work, not sure about toxcity with that. Plan on just disposing of the corpses in the garbage, but I have dogs around and wouldn't want to risk harm to them.

Use RV antifreeze. It is non -toxic which is why you can use it in the water lines of a camper. It will not harm your pets and won't really harm the mice either (unless they drown) but they won't be able to jump out of the bucket.

 

[HomesteaderWife]

This thread is very interesting: was linked to this on Sufficient Self by @sumi and tried it instantly because we are having a bad mouse problem!

 

[Slongest]

what is it a plank idea? mouse tries to get the peanut butter and cant reach it and falls to the bottom of the bucket and cant get out? wheres that piece of wood go?

 

[Slongest]

it looks like a great idea id love to see a pic further away

 

[Trevmillion]

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The wood just goes right to the ground so the mouse can climb up. The mouse can usually reach the peanut butter but the can actually rotates on its axle which the mouse is not expecting.

 

[Trevmillion]

it looks like a great idea id love to see a pic further away

Here's a further away shot of the same trap made by someone else.

 

[Slongest]

Awesome i think im going to make one!!!! like tomo!!! i have about four traps in my shop where i keep my feed every single one has been set off and quite frankly i dont have the time to stop and reset all of em

 

[Trevmillion]

Awesome i think im going to make one!!!! like tomo!!! i have about four traps in my shop where i keep my feed every single one has been set off and quite frankly i dont have the time to stop and reset all of em

It's so easy to do, you probably have everything you need lying around already. But if you need instructions they are here: http://fivegallonideas.com/extremely-effective-mouse-trap/