Critter Deterrent

Need some help,
I have had Critter problems in 2 of my 3 Kubota Tractors
the wires at the dash are being eaten
last year the same problem
Any help would be appreciated.
Help

Hope someone has a solution because once they start they just keep coming back. I have the same problem in a combine cb. tried a bunch of different thing not much luck.

Have you tried rat poison? Would give them something to eat other than your wiring.

Moth balls in a dish and mouse traps is what works for me. Cover the tractor with a tarp to concentrate the smell.

I had a voracious rat in the barn, chewing on many things. Rat cubes didn't get him, so I set a Victor rat trap and got him on the first day.

I always set out plenty of mouse poison.

Have you tried that? I covered my 77 with a tarp one winter and everything in Polk Co. except the winos took up residence under there. gm

(quoted from post at 09:40:06 05/22/23) Need some help,
I have had Critter problems in 2 of my 3 Kubota Tractors
the wires at the dash are being eaten
last year the same problem
Any help would be appreciated.
Help

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i use Victor rat traps and Tomcat bait Chunx. i've seen too many mice walking around with a mousetrap on them. the rat traps don't tend to leave witnesses.

i have tried mothballs and found a mousenest in a partially full box. a friend was told to shave down a bar of Irish Spring and put the shavings in his van. they ate every last scrap.

PS: tomcat appeals to a lot of different animals. take care to put the stuff where only tiny varmints can get at it.

This post was edited by HFJ on 05/22/2023 at 08:15 am.

Use rat/mice poison. NOT the kind that you just throw the little bags out here and there, or those little boxes that you open up and let them eat out of. They will just carry that stuff back to thier nest and likely won't eat enough of it to kill them (especially rats).
But use the rat/mice poison that you NAIL down. If you don't have a wood floor to nail it down to, then nail it to short peices of 2x4 about a foot long, and then set out where you want it.

If you put out some nail down poison and it dissappears (all but the nails and boards) rather quickly (a couple days), then you got a sizeable infestation. And you are going to have to stay on top of nailing it down and keeping it replenished everytime time it's gone, and shortly after it is gone. Once you get the infestation population under control, the nail down poison will start lasting longer. When you can walk by and see that the poison has only been nibbled on a little bit 2 weeks after nailing it down, that's when you can kind of breath and feel like you got things under control.

The nail down poison is sold in little buckets. Cubes or blocks of it in a bucket. If you use up an entire bucket of it, you should change brands or kinds when buying the next bucket. This prevents them (more so with rats), from building up a resistance to the effectiveness of it.

I haven't had any luck with loose poison. But have had with the nail down.

One time I tried using those little bags that you throw out. It kept disappearing. I kept throwing out a few bags once in awhile. The next time I cleaned the shop, I went to move a single stick of 2 inch pipe laying on the floor. Inside the piece of pipe was all of those little bags of poison that I had been throwing out. Most of them with the poison still in the bag, and the bag not damaged. They weren't eating it. But rather carrying it out of site and hoarding it for later.

Don't give up on poison if you haven't tried/been using the nail down.

(quoted from post at 11:25:35 05/22/23) I had a voracious rat in the barn, chewing on many things. Rat cubes didn't get him, so I set a Victor rat trap and got him on the first day.

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I had rats running off with the traps.
So I wired them to a post.
Then they would be tripped but no dead rat.
So I ran drywall screws up thru the board so that they protruded a quarter inch. Next to the outer perimeter of the whacker wire.
Now every time it is tripped, the rat is still in it.

Cats

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(quoted from post at 11:25:35 05/22/23) I had a voracious rat in the barn, chewing on many things. Rat cubes didn't get him, so I set a Victor rat trap and got him on the first day.

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I had rats running off with the traps.
So I wired them to a post.
Then they would be tripped but no dead rat.
So I ran drywall screws up thru the board so that they protruded a quarter inch. Next to the outer perimeter of the whacker wire.
Now every time it is tripped, the rat is still in it.

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HAH. love it.

glad i only have mice here. they don't walk off with the rat traps.

Mix cornmeal and baking soda.i use cornmeal that has honey in it.

I use antifreeze in a small bowl in a box with a small hole in it just large enough for mice and rats.