okay so this time of year I like to do product reviews and the mice are moving
into our buildings they're moving into my observation beehive building into
your house into your chicken coops and I like to use these live catch traps to
get them mice are tiny and they require these lightweight super-sensitive traps
to catch them otherwise you just have the bait cleaned off your traps and
nothing to show for it this is a have a hart trap it's the tiniest one it's
good for mice only but a lot of people complain because this little mechanism
that triggers here is just too sensitive and people say they cannot get their
fingers in there and get it set to go but you know I can do it but I have
other traps that are my favorites and if you've watched my videos in the past one
is made by a company called atomic Barbie we're going to talk about those
larger traps in this video and in the end I'm going to show you how they work
this is another live catch trap the convenience - this one here is that my
chickens can't get into it it's a multiple catch trap so as many mice that
walk into it it accepts more and more mice until that thing is full it's got a
transparent window so you can see what's in it
the bad side of it is I've seen mice go into this thing
turn around and come right back out not my favourite trap but you can put it
where animals bother and they don't get into it this was my original favorite
live catch trap super sensitive it's by a company called atomic Barbie I will
put a link to this video that I made on this trap in action and you can see how
that goes quality control is not improved even though I bought another
one of these I wanted to get a bigger one but you can see it spot-welded
everywhere it has basic hardware cloth these are
corrosion resistant it looks like it's zinc covered the parts came bent up in
the in the box there and it works great though the other thing is it teeters
around a little bit but if you get something strong in here like a rat a
rat can actually pull the trap apart so I'm kind of looking for something
sturdier I like the bait plate I like the way
these things trigger the concept is the same
if only they had made it bigger and better well they made it bigger this
is a larger version it works the same it is nice and sensitive if you tweak it
around a little bit but you know what they did not improve the material that
it's made out of and rats if you get a chipmunk by mistake or something or get
a squirrel in there they're just gonna destroy the trap they're gonna get away
and it's not gonna be any good anymore so that's a close up of the triggering
mechanism slides off easy triggers nice I like it I just wish they
took the time to make them better these live catch traps have a
spring-loaded closing door that's critical you want these doors that snap
shots fast and you need that little bar to slide down to retain it
because whatever you get in there is going to be trying to get out and these
traps need to hold them in place there again we're showing the bait bar
and that plate there great design I think a lot of different companies are
making these now these are the dimentions of the largest atomic Barbie trap and of
course six and a half inches wide here it is also five and a half inches tall
and of course you have to have high clearance with this type of trap because
they have that top bar that flips up so you need ten and a half inches overhead
just so this thing can operate and that's fine with me
because these things work great now the cool part is there's another company
Becko humane I got all of these traps from Amazon and what I really like about
this new trap is how well it's made solid panels here on the end this is the
trigger mechanism and that has a spring-loaded closer comparing it to the
atomic Barbie again no comparison as far as quality materials go this Beko trap
is really solid and it's made out of expanded metal this is the backside
where the bait is the animals often come up to the bait and try to get through it
from the outside they're not going to do that with the Becko they do try to
push around the atomic Barbie trap this is the trigger mechanism for the Becko
system it looks like it's stamped out of galvanized steel and it's nice and
strong and it holds its place as the trigger
plate gets moved inside which is the bait plate it's going to trigger
that just again we're comparing the two mechanisms
there's a drawback though I do like this Becko trap it's made extremely well I
just don't like that they put this little piece of spring wire underneath
of it that actually lifts the bait plate up and when they did that they actually
made this thing very difficult to trigger so if you're trying to catch
lightweight mice like the deer mice and the house mice that we have in my neck
of the woods here they're just gonna go in there they're gonna get the bait
they're gonna leave that little piece of spring steel there did not benefit the
trap sensitivity so look you can just I mean you can tap away and it's not
catching anything a squirrel could go in there and squirrels and rats eat
carefully they're not going to trigger this trap the way it comes to you you're gonna
have to modify it it is ten and a half inches long it is four and a half inches
tall and it is five and a half inches wide again solid plates everything about
this is great the only drawback is a sensitivity now
look at the bait plate it's laying flat on the bottom now I took that spring
wire out completely got some pliers under there and removed it because I
want this thing to be sensitive now let's see how it works we're gonna get
this thing rigged up and then we're gonna test the sensitivity of the
modified trap so now that the plate has that spring support on boom this is exactly
what I want I want to trap things I don't want them taking my bait and
getting away you also have to set the trigger up on edge just like this you
want to make sure that whatever goes in there is not coming out we're trapping
deer mice deer mice if they're juveniles weigh almost nothing this is peanut
butter I use a syringe of peanut butter and I bait my traps that way I also run
it up the water here that connects the bait plate to the trigger mechanism at
the top I want them to climb up and jump up and down on that here's our subject
now this is a stunt Mouse I caught these wild deer mice recently but this is a
juvenile notice it's gray coat nothing is lighter than this you can mail this
Mouse first-class mail that's how light they are there it is wondering what I'm
doing here well I'm gonna make him activate my
trap so that you can see how they worked this is the lightest Mouse you're gonna
find and exactly what you want to catch if they're inside your house when you
put these down in your utility spaces where your air-conditioning unit your heat
exchangers are things like that where the mice like to go to get warm you're
gonna want to set this trap and catch him we've got this set for maximum
sensitivity so this species of deer mouse and this young deer mouse is the
perfect subject to test the sensitivity of the trap let's see if it catches them
getting that peanut butter and look he's on the plate these things weigh the same
as a cotton ball I swear and somebody just got trapped let's see that again in
slow motion
now that's how you catch a mouse so by modifying the trap these are outstanding
traps let's try it again from a different angle here's another one of
the mice that I caught boom trap mouse you barely touched it so if you want to
catch mice all the way up to rats and chipmunks and other things chipmunks
have to be released this is the trap to get Becko humane mousetrap these are all
on Amazon I'll put links all of them below thanks for watching this little
mouse is a little startled but unharmed so if you want live catch traps that don't
hurt them but are sensitive enough to catch everything
this is it thanks for watching