Hi y’all Kevin from the Eco Man here today I’m going to show you how to take care of mice and a rural country owned property you can imagine by looking that rodents would be a big issue in an environment such as this and guess what it is they’re having a heavy infestation of rats and mice moving around on their property so we’re going to go over areas that they may enter on the structure of the home and also things you can do on your outside in a prevention measure that’s going to give you less activity inside the home we’re also going to leave off with showing you how to place a box down so that that way you’ll be able to Monitor and control rodents and rats on your property we’re going to start with our inspections let’s go ahead and get started

Well I’m performing my preliminary inspection on the home and I’m looking for obvious entry points that would lead to the inside of the home for those rodents so what we see here we have this door that has no door sweep on it now this is why I’m holding this it’s a common screwdriver but what that screwdriver does it gives you a perception of the mouse entering in the Gap their bodies are typically going to be right about that size so this is a really great tool to use to slide through the door that way way if it hits this point here then that Mouse can pretty much get to that Gap I’m going to slide it under there and we’ll see ah look how far that went in Mouse can pretty much walk right in

This is why this is important because you always want to look at door sweeps first it’s a great deterrent for them to be able to get in corners of homes especially older Corners because as you can see I can get my finger up in here and if I can stick my finger up in here then that typically means that a mouse can get in here you want to take some expandable foam is a good option and actually stuff it up here put your tubing up in here and fill this in just takes a little squirt or two

Well looks like we’ve just discovered a tree as you look up here on top of this gutter when these trees or any brush touch the home mice can use this as a highway system onto the roof line making their way to get into the attic space so it’s always good to trim back Shrubbery uh any trees that sit on the roof or touch the gutter system make that a priority

Wood piles this is virtually a birthing ground for rodents because they can develop so many Broods of babies within these areas untouched but what you want to consider is stacking and storing it up off the ground most often get you a good firewood stand I always recommend about at least a foot off the ground and that’ll be free of most of the pest

We have this automatic vent here this vent should be flush to this foundation wall what it tells us is that rodents could easily get in here so you’ll have to push this up and kind of tighten these screws up a little bit you can see your gaps here it’s running all the way from the top here down to the bottom now as you can see that screwdriver went in pretty good

We’re going to take a look and open the door up and look at the entire structure of the door I am not surprised because the gaps on the side typically represent no threshold plate on the bottom what I recommend is a threshold plate should be there which gives a good round square seal to the door

So now that we’ve completed our inspection we’re about to move on to our rooted box placement when I think about where I want to place a box I’m thinking about it from a perspective of where mice like to move covered and secure and most often this is the area and then it leads right into here so this is the method to my madness so what we’re going to do is we’re going to clean out this a little bit so now that we’ve got our spot placed let’s go get our rodent box and set it down

Now most people see these out around their home in the crawl space I’m sure you’re always curious what’s in it is it a trap does it hold bait what but what we’re going to show you today is an eco-friendly way to bait these boxes so what we’re going to be putting in the box today is our brand of radx disc baits so when you see the word radex you probably automatically think poison this is a cornmeal based product it’s about as eco-friendly as you’re going to get as they begin to feed it starts to harden like a cement in their intestinal walls shutting down their digestive system that’s what we’re going to be putting in the box

So let’s get started what I like to do is always wear gloves and here’s why mice they have the Keen nose so they’re going to smell your stink on there and that might deter them from actually coming to the station that you proactively put out typically these baits are put on by rods that come with the box but what I like to do is I like to give a little bit of extra punch I like to put a little peanut butter on there this would be the best option because it doesn’t dry out as fast like cheese and other things like that I like to create a little cookie as I like to call it and who doesn’t like a good peanut butter cookie

All right so what we’re going to do is we’re going to take one of these rods slide that cookie right on on there now what you want to do is wipe any excess peanut butter off of the rod so what you want to do is draw the focus to the bait not the rod I would eat the peanut butter on the rod first before I go to the bait so don’t give them any other options if you can so what we’re going to do is we’re going to snap this in and it just snaps right in there you go

Now let me show you how to place it you only want to place one here’s why you want it to be their Golden Corral their Buffet they’re Aller can eat let it stay here because they have to get used to it being in the area they’ve ran past here a million times they never saw this Golden Corral we just built so we want them to come into this environment and get comfy and used to this box

Most often you’re going to find droppings in here you won’t find anything dead now on your weekly inspections you may not find bait that’s a great thing or you you find nibbling that’s a good thing because it’s just giving you signs that control is taking place put new bait in it you can do it right here same way I showed you earlier

You’re probably wondering how long should you leave the box here to determine if it’s being effective well the signs will let you know if it’s being effective and they eating all right but if you see no eating you may want to consider moving the location and that’s why you’re doing initial preliminary inspection to find not just one location but potentially multiple locations to play the same box

All right so that’s how you control roted problems on your property if you like what you just saw today like And subscribe do you need the Ecom man’s help book today by clicking the link in the description