Is there anything out there that will actually repel mice and other critters?  I've been leaving poison in my dressing room, but would actually make a mouse stay out of my trailer?  It's a regular straight load bumper pull with a basic non electric dressing room.

Thanks

First of all, you need to get rid of the mice outside of the trailer, before they get in the trailer. Keep the grass mowed around the trailer, caulk all the holes and cracks underneath. Invest in a hungry skinny cat. Set traps outside and inside the trailer. Mothballs and/or ammonia seem to work. If you want to do it organically, try fox urine. The Fox is a natural predator of mice. I've heard this is very effective.

  You can get some mouse poison bait at the farm stores, one kind is called Hawk and the other is called tomcat. They look like compressed squares with grooves and ridges all over them. Anyway they are moisture resistant and you can put them in damp places. They wiol gnaw on this and leave to go find water.... Never to return. I haven't smelled anything bad like I did when I put the D-Con out. Just don't put them where pets and kids can get to it.

Has anyone used one of the electronic pest repellers? I think they emit a high frequency noise that is disagreeable to rodents, buy won't disrupt the hearing frequency of a human.

Gard

Huh?

Here's one brand

http://www.blackanddeckerappliances.com/category-222.html

The fox urine sounds like a good idea.  Any idea where they sell that?  I live in NY

My trailer is a '93.  When I bought it from another boarder, it was infested w/mice. The smell was unbearable.  I evicted them, ripped out the carpet in the dressing room and scrubbed the hell out of it and got rid of the smell.  I moved the trailer to a different spot at the farm.  They like to eat sheepskin, anything cloth and brand new riding boots (thank /god for VISA).  They don't like to hang out in the back with my horse. The poison I use has been killing them but not fast enough.  Spraying outside is fine but I dont want to spray smelly stuff in my trailer or my leather will soak it upand there is no electric.  Is there anything long term battery operated?

Fox urine.....  http://www.biconet.com/critter/foxPowder.html

http://www.biconet.com/critter/foxPacks.html

http://www.predatorpee.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=CTGY&Category_Code=FU

Happy Hunting!!

DANGER DANGER.. Yes. do NOT put them out where pets can get them. They contain the same smell enticing stuff of anti-freeze. DOgs are VERY attracted to these blueish green baits and it contains an anti-coagulant.

Moth balls are great for long term (over winter). You can buy small hanging containers of them in the housewares area of discount stores or just sprinkle them around throughout the trailer.

 Shake-away for rodents. Available online and at ACE hardware stores. You can make "satchets" with pieces of pantyhose. Cut a 5"-7" length of pantyhose, knot one end, pour in about a golf-ball sized "load" of the shake-away, knot the other end. Leave the "satchets" in the DR and horse area.

Shake-away comes in 4 "styles" (rodents, squirrels, moles, and raccoon).

The copper mesh scrubbies work much better than steel wool. Believe me. The little monsters (i'm not sure if it's the red squirrels or the mice) chew right through steel wool and/or pull it out!!   The copper mesh is what the professional critter control people use.

There is product called Critter Ritter that I purchased at my feed & seed store last year.  We had a problem with a skunk who was sneaking under our hay area in the barn.  We actually watched him crawl under the barn early one morning.  My dad picked this Critter Ritter stuff and I sprinkled it around the barn.  Worked great; skunk left and I haven't seen any other undesireables since.  Good luck!!

This is one of my "Critter Ritters"!!

Oh Man... new boots? 

The stinkers chewed a hole in a new vinyl hay bale cover... I had left hay in it, in my garage, and then tossed it in the bed of the truck for a weekend camping... I went to unload some hay and 3 baby mice jumped out and ran into the woods! YIKES.  It's no longer waterproof!!!

And they have nested in far too many good wool saddle pads. I've grown accustomed to moth ball smell in my tack room.  I used the shake-away in the basement of my house (VERY old... thick concrete cellar walls and crawl spaces. It was easier to toss the satchets in there... the squirrels don't eat the poison bait but I can't stand the smell of rotting mice either.

They aren't in the trailer,just the area adjacent to it along with the barn.

and the stinkin' red squirrels chewed the COPPER meshy scrubbie I had poked into a hole in my door to the cellar!!   THey even chewed on the tin I had screwed up on the door to cover last year's entrance!!

YEE GADS. I'll take mice ANYDAY over the stinkin' red squirrels. 

Anyone need a couple of bushels of black walnuts? grrrrr.

I've got lots of hickory nuts too. VERY hard to remove the meat, but it's WONDERFUL in homemade fudge. : )

I've got about 8 black walnut trees I would love to have someone "harvest" ... I've discovered that the mesh fly sheets for horses are good to spread under the trees. water goes through but not the nuts. and the basket-type manure forks are good for scooping.

gabz... How about some burlap sheets or Jute erosion cloth?  I used to have several thousand of those tobacco sheets, (Sold them while folks still used them to send tobacco to market.) I would stake some of them underneath our pecan (pronounced in this area as PEE-CAN!) trees. Worked alot better than picking them up by hand. 

http://www.agrisupply.com/burlap-sheet-96-x-96-75-oz/p/26298/cn/4600023/

http://www.bagsupply.com/jute-erosion-cloth.html