hey brad from cougar ridge ranch
today we're going to
show you a video on how we take care of
a bloom of rodents now a bloom of
rodents
is when springtime comes
and they've been reproducing all winter
and you just get run over by them and up
here in the mountains
ah
there are years when it's so bad that
just walking around here in fact if you
were just looking at the ground behind
me
you'd see mice and and squirrels and
chipmunks just running everywhere
they're just crazy
you come out at night and they're still
out at night and they'll run up your
legs they're running all over they're
dropping from trees
they're just everywhere so regular mouse
traps just don't cut it you just can't
handle regular mouse traps so i'm going
to show you how we
have to deal with the rodents and keep
them from eating you out of housing home
all these critters
they'll climb up on the roof they'll
come down the pipes they'll crawl in
through the toilet they'll they'll brave
the water and come up in the house
uh oh they they're just they're just
crazy it is just crazy bad when that
happens so
i'm going to show you how we deal with
it and
it works really really well it's cheap
it's almost free
let's go
[Music] okay so this is what you're going to
need you're going to need a five gallon
bucket
put about five inches of water in it
less than half
more than a third right in that range
gonna need a wire
you're gonna need an empty pop can
and you're gonna need some bait you'll
probably also wanna have
a drill and so what we're gonna do
we're gonna drill holes
put the bit in this thing
we're gonna drill a hole right through
the top right here
of the bucket we're going to drill a
hole right on the other side
in the same place then
we're going to drill a hole through the
center of the pop can
right here we can make that happen
doesn't have to be exact
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and then we'll drill a hole in the back
of the pop can
now don't some of you be talking about
whether your kids are gonna drink this
or all that hoo-ha
you gotta have smarter kids gotta watch
your kids
okay so now i'm gonna straighten this a
little bit of a curly wire here
and i'm going to put the wire
through my hole and put the pop can
on the wire
i can even navigate this
i'll do it backwards maybe that'll be
easier
having a shaky hand doesn't help this
process
okay backwards was the key
now what i like to do is just come over
here to about midway and
make a little bit of a goofy bend in the
wire
just to kind of keep the can give it a
little bit of a low spot
and i'm going to put the wire through
the other side of the bucket here
and i'm going to figure out where this
is
sometimes a pair of pliers works just as
good to put the kink in it
like that
and then we'll do the same thing over
here
this there
now get the pop can on there and all
we're gonna do is
bend this wire around and we're going to
bend this wire around
that's going to leave us with a pop can
that can wiggle just a little bit of
wiggle
then we're gonna take some peanut butter
now this happens to be chunky but i just
have a
jar of really rancid peanut butter here
and it doesn't matter what kind of it's
chunky or not chunky
creamy whatever they are you're just
going to put some peanut butter
on this can like this
smear that on here like that okay so
what's going to happen
is our rodents are going to
come to this bucket i'm going to put a
little
i'm going to put a little
ramp up the bucket
and sometimes i'll put some peanut
butter on the ramp too
now up here where we are we're high
desert
and we don't normally have to put peanut
butter because they want the water there
is not a lot of water up here so they
want the water but if
you're in an area where there's plenty
of water for them to drink they'll want
the peanut butter they want to bait
so now a rodent will come up
and sense this they'll climb out on the
wire and when they go to get the peanut
butter
the can will tilt and they'll fall in
the water and drown
so i'm gonna go put this out and
we'll check it in the morning and see
how it did
so as you can see i've put this up in
the garden
behind the gate just so the dogs don't
lick the p... lick the peanut butter off
and here up at the garden you look in
the look in the garden shed right there
you can see
all of my other water traps ready to go
all right so we'll come back in the
morning and see how this
did okay
so it's morning
and we're gonna come up here to the
garden
i'm gonna go in now we haven't had a lot
of mice and
rodents up here this year the pine nuts
were not a good
season last year so we may not have any
but we might have something so
let's see what we can see here oh yeah
there's some
there's some takers there we've had some
we've had some action overnight you can
see that
your discretion yeah there's some dead
rodents there
and garden eaters no mo..no longer
they went for that rancid peanut butter
yep so there it is
water trap you don't have to reset it
just have to empty it
and right now the ravens are looking for
this as a dinner so we're going to feed
the ravens
and keep our garden safe and keep the
cotton picking rodents out of the
buildings the sheds the houses
oh they even climb up in the exhaust of
vehicles and chew the wires under the
hood oh it's a pest when
when a bloom hits it's a terrible pest
so
good luck with it have fun and uh
remember
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brad from cougar ridge ranch call sign
captain wingnut
signing off