Reble
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Peppermint oil, it must be 100% pure and natural, extracts will not work .
The stuff is so strong it has to be greatly diluted to be fit for human consumption or use in rubs etc. Anyway wet some cotton balls and place them where the mice seemed to move about. In places like inside a closet, behind the stove or refrigerator, sprinkled some around, in the closet, several drops in the corners.
Same for your barn in holes, and areas in your feed room would help.
Again you must get the 100% pure oil and refresh and reapply the oil every couple weeks especially in the winter when they want to stay inside they will come back when the scent wears.
I also have read that you can Peel an Onion in four parts and place it 4" underground (Root side UP). The gases ... keep mice or rats away. We have dirt floors in our feed room and find lots of tunnels made from rats last year.
Anyone try these, last year I used a live trap and caught at least 23 rats in our feed room, sure hope they have got the message this year. I am thinking of trying one of these remedies.
Just sharing, this sounds safe for our other pets in our home and barn.
The stuff is so strong it has to be greatly diluted to be fit for human consumption or use in rubs etc. Anyway wet some cotton balls and place them where the mice seemed to move about. In places like inside a closet, behind the stove or refrigerator, sprinkled some around, in the closet, several drops in the corners.
Same for your barn in holes, and areas in your feed room would help.
Again you must get the 100% pure oil and refresh and reapply the oil every couple weeks especially in the winter when they want to stay inside they will come back when the scent wears.
I also have read that you can Peel an Onion in four parts and place it 4" underground (Root side UP). The gases ... keep mice or rats away. We have dirt floors in our feed room and find lots of tunnels made from rats last year.
Anyone try these, last year I used a live trap and caught at least 23 rats in our feed room, sure hope they have got the message this year. I am thinking of trying one of these remedies.
Just sharing, this sounds safe for our other pets in our home and barn.
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