Best bait for mice?

I've found peanut butter with bird seeds. Works well in the snap traps. The weird thing is I have had zero success getting them into multiple / colony type traps with any bait

Rodenticide must be a billion dollar industry.

My dear old mother must have caught a thousand of them using flour. Not a great outdoor bait and sometimes they eat all the flour

without getting caught, but not very often and I was amazed at the success. Strange about the repeater traps. If they are working

properly, we always find the bottom lined with that gorgeous mouse fur from previous occupants. Apparently, mouse tastes really good,

especially to other mice.

I like vanilla....they dont stop searching for the smell til the trap sets off on em

Have had best success with P-Butter, but I like the idea of the Vanilla, seems like the smell will fill the whole house and draw them in.

Yeah, Ma always used whatever she had on hand and the Winklmanns were never known as the last of the big spenders. ( Except maybe

when we were sitting in a tavern )

Soup can with a bit of sweet mix in it. Put the snap trap just inside the can with the sweet mix. Might want to flatten that can a bit so the snap trap lays flat and steady. A touch of vanilla for lure. Mouse has to pass over the trap to get to the bait. You will catch mice. This set will catch all varieties. Kangaroo mice, voles. The molasses in the sweet mix is a good attractor also. Use a surveyor flag to mark the location. A dozen of these along a weedy fence line will get you a gallon in short order. Good luck with your mouse line. LOL! IT WORKS!

I don't trap mice professionally but I murder them in the snap traps at home in my shop. with just a small piece of wheat bread. I pack it into a ball about the size of a pinto bean . It holds on the trap and holds for months till one finds it.

what do you all recommend for a rural homeowner?

(I don't really think I need an 18 lb. pail)

Thanks!

I use our prevent a mouse program on my own home.
http://www.crittercatchersinc.com/critters/Mice/Prevent-A-Mouse.html

And just like Dave, our interior bait stations allow us to introduce the customer to our new Prevent-A-Smell program. Another timely add on.

appreciate the replies.

my house is on an old stone foundation, and nothing is square.

I've resigned myself to on-going rodenticide treatments.

Mice live and die all the time in homes....with or without rodenticide. They only live a year or so....but during that time they multiply rapidly. Ultimately, it comes down to the quantity that end up dieing.