welcome back to steve rob reviews today i'm going to talk about eliminating rats and mice
from your environment now this is not going to be about mouse traps or rat traps i already did
a video on that a couple of months ago if you want i'll put a link down below and i found the best
mouse trap well so far in my life but today is going to be about alternative ways to get rid of
mice and rats in your environment in a non-toxic way so i got everything here behind me and this
whole experiment lasted from last fall till this week roughly five months i've been carrying on
this experiment to see which one of these formulas actually work so i got a list right here in front
of me and this is what i did over the whole winter and i've got some fantastic results
okay so i tried the uh these are all homemade recipes non-toxic
and uh they work just as good as a mouse trap for many on youtube but for me only one of them worked
okay so first of all i tried the instant potato flakes and the instant potato flakes yeah they
did go after them a bit but i tried it in two versions one with just the instant potato flakes
and the second one i tried with some just a little bit of a sprinkling of instant hot
chocolate powder on top and i would say nah they didn't go near it hardly at all the next one was
that you'll see on the internet a lot is one-third flour one-third sugar and one-third baking soda
and this is what i've got right here is the baking soda i bought two of these containers
and uh that's what's left over and this one here was about this full when i started
okay so that particular formula no luck like hardly at all and i'm going to show you some
of these things i got the proof right here okay another one was one-third flour one-third hot
chocolate powder and then again one-third the baking soda and the main whole idea of this
is the baking soda and if you want you can search on the internet you can see how it actually works
but i mean i i figure it's just best to show you what actually worked for me that one didn't work
at all either now that was a little more successful than without the hot chocolate
but to tell you the truth nah it didn't do much okay then i just tried two thirds
the hot chocolate powder to one third baking soda i thought that one would have been great
no it didn't do much better than the rest then i tried okay let me see if i can find it here
yeah okay i mean i even tried two thirds coffee mate because that's
like a powder with a lot of sugar in it and that kind of stuff and one third baking soda
this would have turned out like block of concrete now that one didn't work either so then i got on
to the uh peanut butter and it was half peanut butter and half baking soda so i'll show you first
the setup that i had last winter you take a look at that first okay let's just go for a
little bit of a walk here it's uh fresh snow on the ground minus 15 out and we'll see if we
can get some tracks but the uh the rats have dug a hole underneath this uh planter here
and i got some tracks here but i think these are uh these are squirrels yeah these are squirrels
there's the first bait station i have there this one here and this one here is the first batch
so that's the first experiment batch and underneath here well you cannot see it
but that's the second experiment batch and that's the new containers and uh
i can't see any tracks whether they've been here or not but if you take a look
right over there that's where all the rats were coming from that compost bin in my neighbor's yard
so that's where they all started from and so we'll go over towards my shed here
yeah this is a i think this is a uh a squirrel i'm not too sure but uh there's the second
date trap so the ones that look like this that's the second one and that's the second second batch
and you can see where i've stuck a board along here there's another one underneath and they
were digging underneath here now there is a little wooden platform that i had here like a deck that
went on the front and they were digging underneath there and uh so yeah i think that's a squirrel
that just dug in there so here's the here's the platform here that i just took away and uh
so this one here behind my steel shed that's the uh the third batch so i got this one here and one
more so we'll go over here towards the side of my garage and i'll show you where that one is
there it is right there just tucked in right in there so i've got three different mixes and we're
gonna see which ones they like the best so you can obviously see yeah it was winter out and i let all
them formulas sit there for a month and every time it snowed i could see fresh tracks going around so
after a month i said you know what let's switch it up and that's when i went to this and i mixed
one like a good sized spoon to a to a little bit less a little bit less than 50
of the uh baking soda and all i did was just mix it in a bowl like this and whip it all up
i'm going to show you how it looks now i have a batch here that's been sitting for at least
more than three weeks hasn't been touched but during from the time that i started to put it out
it was gone and i'll show you how much i put out every time it was gone within i'd say four
five days i kept on replenishing it replenishing it replenishing it and i thought you know what all
i'm doing is just feeding these uh varmints right no no that's that's the part that i
was a little confused about because i figured it would work pretty fast if you read a lot of these
uh internet postings or if you go on uh youtube well you'll hear about how fast you know your
rats and mice are going to be eliminated from your environment well it wasn't so fast for me
now remember this is the winter time and so let's take a look over here so that's what i built right
there now what i did is you can see there's a wire going from here to here now what rats really like
is they want to be able to be able to see from one end to the other
so i put that wire going across there so be no squirrels going in there and then i just put a
patio stone on top so they couldn't flip it over but i'll show you underneath that's all i did was
right there and there's the peanut butter and that's been sitting outside next to the other
baits and this hasn't been touched in three weeks so i know they're gone
so if we just take a look at the powders here like you could see there's a dropping right there
and nothing's been really touched they just went in there and kind of sniffed around again a bit
but these have all been sitting there for five months and uh you know they're the surefire uh
varmint destroyers apparently but they didn't destroy much and of course these
ones went in here for this one and this one and uh nah no luck at all but this is the
real thing that works the baking soda the peanut butter mixed 50 50. so what do i got over here
well this is something i designed myself and you can see there's a box inside of a box here
and what i'm going to do is i'm going to carry on with this experiment you can see where the
the mice would have to go on the side i'm going to carry on this experiment up my camp
where there is lots of mice i got 10 acres of postured uh field and for sure this experiment
will continue and i'm going to use the baking soda no peanut butter because if i try to use peanut
butter up north i'm going to have bears walking away with it i got so many raccoons up there
i'm going to continue with the other formula and the one that i'm going to pick is 1 3 flour
one-third sugar one-third baking soda i'm gonna put it in them containers i'm gonna put it out and
i got some spots so these will be weatherproof and i'm gonna continue on with this experiment because
i done this in the in the middle of the winter so i'm not too sure whether their their diet base
makes a difference or not because so many people on youtube were swearing by you know that
particular formula and you know i'm not going to discount it because different parts of the world
you know have different climates and maybe it only works in the summertime but i'm going to continue
this for the summertime i'm going to bring this up north and i guarantee you if the mice that i know
are there well they will either go for this or they won't and if they won't i'll report back as
a total flop but the peanut butter the whole trick behind the peanut butter it took about i would say
six seven weeks before i started to see no more tracks because i'm getting snow here every couple
of days off and on and i can tell just by the tracks right so i mean a lot of people
don't know if they've got any vermin around at all because well they don't have snow right
and it's hard to tell if there's anything around but when i see the tracks i know what's going on
no tracks at all over there for the last six seven weeks nothing touched the peanut butter
so i know so what i'm gonna do leave that peanut butter right out there and maybe uh
like every month or so i'll just change it out because of course it all kind of dries up and
uh i don't know whether they want to eat that or not but i'll just change it every couple of months
and when you see something that's been nibbling at it you know there's more mice or rats around right
so but should you just go with this particular idea and not do the traps well i'm saying no
it's a combination of both because this is a long term thing so something you got to continue
all the time if i wanted to tell somebody just to use the peanut butter you know and the baking
soda i say look you got to be looking up to about almost two months before it actually has an effect
and they gotta ingest enough of it right so in my particular situation they ingested enough
and there's none around now not a track nothing so i'll continue with this as a an experiment
but i would say go with the peanut butter and the baking soda and still use traps because i
always put a trap in each one of my sheds i have a trap over here in the garage on the floor because
do you want to attract you know vermin to your particular spots either and that's what this will
do it'll attract them and you know a lot of times you don't want to attract them you just want to
remove them right so i would say the peanut butter is great over a longer period of time but the
traps work well you know too and if you want like i said in the beginning take a look at the link
down below and you'll see probably the best mouse trap i ever ran across i'll show you how i trap
them as well and i trap them away so that you're not hurting any other animals i don't want to get
you know like a raccoon in my trap i don't want to get a squirrel of my trap i feed the birds and the
squirrels you know in my backyard and that will also add to the factor of why you have you know
the mice and rats coming around in the first place right so the best thing to do is be on top of it
you really can't tell if you have any vermin around if you're not looking for you know
tracks in the snow or if you live in an area that doesn't have any uh snow well put down the peanut
butter even if you don't bother putting down you know any baking soda just put out some little bit
of peanut butter like kind of make yourself a little box like i did leave it there and if you
notice that it's all being eaten you know what's eating it so thanks for joining me here today come
back again if you haven't seen this channel before you're welcome to subscribe and uh stay tuned for
a further update up at my camp on how the powder solution works during the non-winter times cheers