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Barn owls

  • 23-08-2010 9:39am
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    vanderbadger
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    does anyone have any owls on their farm, I have to say I have never seen one and was often curious as to whether there are many/any about, In all they haysheds I have ever been in I dont think I have ever seen one! would they kill a lamb or is it just rodents they tackle?


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    Feargal as Luimneach
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,139 ✭✭✭Feargal as Luimneach


    vanderbadger wrote: »
    does anyone have any owls on their farm, I have to say I have never seen one and was often curious as to whether there are many/any about, In all they haysheds I have ever been in I dont think I have ever seen one! would they kill a lamb or is it just rodents they tackle?
    Too small to take a lamb. Food small rodents,frogs and insects. They prefer to nest in old style barns. New modern cattle sheds no use to them. But if you put up a Barn owl nesting box and you were lucky enough to have some in your area they might use it.


  • #3
    vanderbadger
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    interesting..what do these boxes look like, would you be able make your own one up


  • #4
    Feargal as Luimneach
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,139 ✭✭✭Feargal as Luimneach


    vanderbadger wrote: »
    interesting..what do these boxes look like, would you be able make your own one up
    http://www.bsc-eoc.org/research/speciesatrisk/bnow/index.jsp?targetpg=bnownestboxplans
    This site might give you a few tips. Canadian site but more or less relevant. Disregard info about great horned owl.


  • #5
    Birdnuts
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    vanderbadger wrote: »
    does anyone have any owls on their farm, I have to say I have never seen one and was often curious as to whether there are many/any about, In all they haysheds I have ever been in I dont think I have ever seen one! would they kill a lamb or is it just rodents they tackle?


    Barn Owls like Kestrels, Buzzards and Kites are very much the farmers friend in the vast numbers of pest rodents they consume every year and should always be protected and encouraged:)


  • #6
    denis086
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    we had one living in our old hay shed a few years ago but it seemed to move off again after a year. but ive never seen one anywhere else ;)


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  • #7
    kboc
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    is it pssible to get one or two and realease them?


  • #8
    vanderbadger
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    be hard to get them to stick around id say unless they nested, must put one of those boxes up sometime though and see wil anything move in


  • #9
    djmc
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    The biggest killer of owls is eating half poisoned mice and rats then they die from secondry poisening


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