winter storage

Tractor and old farm jeep,
they are stored out in the open shed,

do you guys place mouse bait in the vehicles or around the tires of the vehicles as they are stored for the winter?

one year I had some animal rip the top on my rv while it was in winter storage, always wondered if they were after the boxes of mice bait I had thrown up onto the roof of the rv.

when the food ran out they were mad, so they started tearing up the roof.

its almost a waste of time anyway, as the mice bait I can buy at TSC or other stores TOM CAT only has 0.01% Bromethalin which must just make the mice hungry.
who knows what the other 99.99% is

any thoughts on storage is appreciated.

I am sure the government has required they weaken the poison levels due to dogs cats and possibly kids getting into it.

What has worked well for us is dill.
We plant a full row of it in the garden every year so there is plenty more than we need for the kitchen.
Come fall cut off the whole plant at ground level and place it anywhere you do not want mice.
Inside vehicles, Rv's, in the basement, behind freezers in outside sheds, tack room etc.
One area they were particularly bad was behind a chest freezer in one of our storage sheds, they like the bit of heat it creates and they would turn the area into a mouse hotel.
After cleaning out the mess and putting down dill there has not been a turd to be seen in years.
We have been doing this for over 20 years with great results.

I learned this trick from my Gma..has worked well for me over the years. tobacco. I think its called like twist tobacco. I bought some broke into smaller pieces and tossed up in my house attic when we built our home years ago.. never had mouse problems in walls, etc. Other thing was I had a buddy that had a baler said mice get into tool area on baler where he kept the operator manual in plastic and ------ and chewwed. He put some in there in worked well. Gma said they dont like the smell or taste.. so anti draw.. its cheep to..

Most of us in this area use Bounce dryer sheets,the mice don't like the smell,I have them in my vintage cars and trucks also on the engine of my tractors and Harleys,haven't had a problem yet,always could be a mouse with a cold around though,nothings perfect!

Mint extract oil, dryer sheets, removing any thing that they can make a nest out of and or any kind of food source. I have this old ford ranger in my yard, years ago they got into it. It was sort of a unintended project, a truck I bought back after the insurance company totaled it, no frame or significant damage, just the firewall of the cab actually. Once they get in, the urine smell will attract others, and this truck always had mice. Well, I finally was able to work on it and I had actually needed to pull the dash to the firewall, expose the entire area of the interior of the cab, to clean up all traces of them, put it back together, everything worked fine and I have kept dryer sheets in it, new ones 2x per year, not a sign of them. Also be cognizant of any place they can get in and block off with hardware cloth. One got in my daily driver car, air filter housing, so I screened the path off there and under the cowling firewall area and or duct for the fresh air intake. A deer or whitefooted mouse made a nest there and at some point died of natural causes in there, it reeked, took some time to find it, but it was cleaned and screened off. I had one in the trunk of my cobra mustang, he got the liner and made a nest, tick me off, well I rousted them out, trapped etc. I finally saw this hole in the interior of the steel body, factory hole above the fuel tank, which I just replaced, and used hardware cloth to screen that off too, little bugger just got onto the fuel tank and went through this hole that should be rodent proofed. There are times these darned things get plentiful, some my fault with yard clutter, removing that and keeping a place neat does wonders for rodent control.

I store mine inside and use Tomcat bait stations around all doors all year round and pets can't get inside them .

I use Moth Balls and have NO trouble...

How they Harvest them would be an interesting subject...!!!

Ron..

saw this one today on a non poison mouse bait trap

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yC1XNDyxE4c