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hey welcome back to pine meadows hobby farm i'm your host jerry hansen i'm a night
greenhouse with mr sam squatch here and i i featured this cornbread mixture and baking soda
in mixed together in equal parts in a container this is simply a just a regular used container
i cut about two inch hole in the side we're going to make a mixture and i'm
going to put it in my garden the reason why i'm putting in a covered dish is because
the sprinkler will go out you know go off out there and it'll get the potion wet so
i don't want it wet i just want it dry and i keep it covered in the garden for
that purpose you can do an open dish if you're doing insides but let me show you i'm just doing
four tablespoons of baking soda and four tablespoons of the jiffy cornbread mix
now the cornbread mix does not kill it's just an attractant and that's what you want something
to attract corn meal will work flour will work uh there's a lot of different ingredients that
will attract rats mice and i found that they love corn they love sweet and this is a super
attractant so this one really works so i'm just going to take four tablespoons of the
baking soda and the baking soda is what kills them this is what attracts them so we're gonna put
four tablespoons of this we're gonna mix it up and we'll pull it put it in the garden
do not put water or anything else out with this mixture what happens is the baking soda
mixes with the stomach acids in the rodent so we got four tablespoons
and then you just mix it up get it all mixed up
now like i said the baking soda will mix with the stomach acids in the creature
now for uh simulation purposes only i'm going to add a little bit of vinegar
to this jar and the the vinegar is assimilation of the stomach acids in the rodent that's all this
is don't put any fluids out for the this is not part of the ingredients for the poison
just these two that's all you want but i want to show you what baking soda does just a little
bitty tiny bit of baking soda and that's what it does bubbles up and causes them to burst asunder
and sense rodents in general don't burp or fart uh it's mixed up it uh it bubbles and it causes
their innards to burst and yeah it's a painful way to die but it's a necessary evil to get rid of and
control rodents this works on rats it kills mice it kills chipmunks it kills moles and voles and
squirrels those are what i do know it works on and kills and it's been killing her on my homestead
except we don't have chipmunks here i've been getting uh comments from other uh viewers who
testify that yeah it's killing chipmunks also it attracts roaches and ants and it'll kill
the roaches and ants it's the baking soda that's killing them so let's go put this in the garden
and i'll place it right down here and face the opening away from my sprinkler and then the
maroons will be attracted to it and eat that and die other rodent control we have on the farm is
nebby our cat and two weeks ago we just adopted two more kitties a little brother sister uh they
have been they've been fixed and neutered so we have three cats on the homestead again and the
garden is the problem area where i'm having right now with rodents so we put the measuring that
stuff out there and hopefully it'll get them under bay and the cat's on patrol so we're going to have
some success also control vermin from getting in and we're in your house you know ants roaches uh
rodents kill them they're ghastly they're beastly they'll chew your wiring
they'll cut perhaps cause a fire and burn your house down uh they also spread diseases so
if you're sympathetic to them you guys live with them i'm 86 in them i might also add that
this small portion that you're mixing putting in your garden or laying around the house
will not harm your dog will not harm your cat because it's not poison and that small amount
of baking soda will not affect them one bit and what's better is if my livestock gets into it
the livestock i have won't be harmed by it either because it's such small portions and what's even
great is that uh like the bird of prey and the fox say an owl or fox if they should ingest the rodent
it's not going to kill them currently people are feeding poisons to rodents the rodents die
a fox and an owl they'll eat the rat or the poison rodent and they eventually will die
this is safe for wildlife livestock and pets so any kind of attractant and baking soda yeah
so good luck with your battle stay tuned for a update on my preventative measures i took
to keep the rodents from chewing wiring and hoses in my tractor engine compartment and
all my vehicles we're going to see how successful that was so stay tuned for that show i'm your host
jerry hansen this is pine meadows hobby farm or a frugal homestead tucked high in the cascade ranges
of the pacific northwest yeah my home sits up in the mountains we're in the wilderness and we are
geographically located west southwest of crater lake national park a beautiful park
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