I checked the Kentucky spinner yesterday after being away for 6days and there were two mice in the bucket.
I'm going to check weekly and see if there are any more that can't balance.
I'm going to check weekly and see if there are any more that can't balance.
Judging by the areas that were gnawed and some all the way through, I guess there are a lot more than two up there.
I'll just bait again as necessary.
I'll just bait again as necessary.
Build an artificial cat which will seek and destroy said mice.
With frickin' laser beams attached to its head.
With frickin' laser beams attached to its head.
I think just two can do a lot of damage. They don't have TV or FaceBook or DIYAudio, what else they got to do all day but chew?
Anyway, all I read, and experience, is that when a mouse-place goes vacant, other mice move in soon after.
Bought 12m of copper pipe and some fittings yesterday and started cutting, bending, fitting, removing, rebending, removing, .... etc, until I had a good fit at the two ends and at the junction near the middle.
Finished replacing 5m of plastic hot water pipe today. Only one leaking joint where I had not properly inserted an old pipe into an existing fitting, that removal had made making the new connection easier.
With the very limited access and the difficulty of installing the rigid copper pipe, that hot replacement took over 12hours.
I'll start on the cold tomorrow and maybe finish it in the same day.
Still only two mice in the bucket.
They had finished all the bait. There must be a good balancer still up there!
Excuse the blur, 1/4sec without flash.
Finished replacing 5m of plastic hot water pipe today. Only one leaking joint where I had not properly inserted an old pipe into an existing fitting, that removal had made making the new connection easier.
With the very limited access and the difficulty of installing the rigid copper pipe, that hot replacement took over 12hours.
I'll start on the cold tomorrow and maybe finish it in the same day.
Still only two mice in the bucket.
They had finished all the bait. There must be a good balancer still up there!
Excuse the blur, 1/4sec without flash.
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You would think that as soon as the mouse breached the pipe and got 80psi (5.5MPa) water sprayed into its face it would find something els to chew on. Was all of that done with the water pressure live (what a mess) or most after the water was shutoff?
A "game camera" has motion-sensing. We use them not only to know where the deer are, but also who is breaking into our trailer. You typically get a flash-card with a series of time-stamped still images. Many have "nite-lite", either IR imaging or light sources. I think a few bucks more gets you little movies, but for mice who needs that?
Maybe more available where hunting is common than in the UK?
Nah- £33.99
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I haven't read the entire thread but I heard an interesting item on a local radio Science Show. A species of caterpillar has been found eating wax on a bee hive. This led to experiments (Italian I think...) and it was found to be able to eat and digest certain plastics with a long life that are causing environmental issues. Too soon yet to see beneficial environmental or commercial returns but interesting never the less.
Again not 100% sure of the data but many years ago I understood there was a bacteria that was eating bitumen roads........in Gippsland area if other Aussies can confirm that...??
Cheers and Merry Christmas to you all........(Which in this time of PC gone mad and "micro-aggressions" I understand we are still allowed to say in Australia between consenting adults in private.....)
Again not 100% sure of the data but many years ago I understood there was a bacteria that was eating bitumen roads........in Gippsland area if other Aussies can confirm that...??
Cheers and Merry Christmas to you all........(Which in this time of PC gone mad and "micro-aggressions" I understand we are still allowed to say in Australia between consenting adults in private.....)
try this
Put some peppermint oil on some cotton balls and throw them around in there.. Mice hate peppermint and it's a humane way to make them leave... Be sure to use oil.. Not extract
Put some peppermint oil on some cotton balls and throw them around in there.. Mice hate peppermint and it's a humane way to make them leave... Be sure to use oil.. Not extract
In the 22 years we had our cat I never noticed any mice until the cat passed. Just its presence might of kept mice at bay.
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