Crows in the cattle sheds

melly

Just wondering had anybody any tips for keeping crows out of the cattle sheds and eating the feed.Its a tmr and they just love rooting all the silage out into the iddle of the passage especially now when they have absolutely nothing else to get! I ve spent most of the week replacing lettuce wire around all of the open areas in the sheds. I ve searched and there is not many place that they can get in. Yet when i went down again this morning there was at least 20 in one shed and 30 in another. Has anyone used those electric bird scarers (sonic or ultrasonic)? Are they worth investing in? This yard is away from the house so they just wait until we leave and attack then..:mad:

blue5000

Artifical hawk sound should work, there was a thread on here a while back. I think they can be bought on ebay.

meathstevie

You could use a Larsen trap or invest in an airrifle if you're looking to do away with them. Getting the cert as a farmer for indoor pest control should be but a formality. Once the crows start to realise coming into your shed is bad news they'll clear off.

Also a couple of bangs with the shottie outside tends to scare them away.

John_F

bought a bird scarer for 70 euro, it made the situation from bad to worse in my view, had no crows eating the tmr ration until we turned it on, alot of small birds here, its a ****ing disaster, and notice the pigeons are back in town aswell :mad: :mad: :mad:

i suppose a trap is the only job

jap gt

you want a ladder trap, a larsen trap is more for mags and greys

kay 9

A semi-auto scatter gun:D Shoot them outside. Or someone with rat shot and a 22.

Tipp farm hand

I would be giving them a good feed of "kill crow" works very well, and if your lucky you might get a few greys amd magpies as well. you can buy it in your local creamry.

ihatetractors

kay 9 wrote: »

A semi-auto scatter gun:D Shoot them outside. Or someone with rat shot and a 22.

I thaught it's illegal to fire a riffle in the air, or do ya mean an air riffle

gtul

Hang a dead crow in the shed.should frighten them off for a while. or poison them. chlorolosus is good in the cold weather. it slows their heart beat and the cold kills them off.

jap gt

ihatetractors wrote: »

I thaught it's illegal to fire a riffle in the air, or do ya mean an air riffle

its not illegal its just very stupid, crows will have to land some where

Birdnuts

Tipp farm hand wrote: »

I would be giving them a good feed of "kill crow" works very well, and if your lucky you might get a few greys amd magpies as well. you can buy it in your local creamry.

That is now illegal to use due to its indiscriminate nature - I suggest you familiarize yourself with the law:mad:

Birdnuts

gtul wrote: »

Hang a dead crow in the shed.should frighten them off for a while. or poison them. chlorolosus is good in the cold weather. it slows their heart beat and the cold kills them off.

It is now illegal to use poison against any wild bird or anything else apart from rodents!!#

PS: Theres been plenty of safe and alternative methods all ready mentioned in this thread - no need for poisoning non-target wildlife/gamebirds/pets etc.!!

The_Conductor

Tipp farm hand wrote: »

I would be giving them a good feed of "kill crow" works very well, and if your lucky you might get a few greys amd magpies as well. you can buy it in your local creamry.

1 week ban for advocating illegal activity

The_Conductor

gtul wrote: »

Hang a dead crow in the shed.should frighten them off for a while. or poison them. chlorolosus is good in the cold weather. it slows their heart beat and the cold kills them off.

1 week ban for advocating illegal activity

vcsggl

smccarrick wrote: »

1 week ban for advocating illegal activity

If this is a serious threat it's a very sad indictment of how Ireland has changed so much in recent years. One of the great delights of this country was a healthy scepticism of bureaucratic busybodies and a readiness to disregard petty rules and regulations formulated and imposed by those who didn't usually understand anything about which they were legislating.

I guess this is the price of progress - progress as defined by Eurocrats sitting in Brussels!

George

BeeDI

vcsggl wrote: »

If this is a serious threat it's a very sad indictment of how Ireland has changed so much in recent years. One of the great delights of this country was a healthy scepticism of bureaucratic busybodies and a readiness to disregard petty rules and regulations formulated and imposed by those who didn't usually understand anything about which they were legislating.

I guess this is the price of progress - progress as defined by Eurocrats sitting in Brussels!

George

I always consider crows and magpies and such in my shed, to be engaging in subversive activity, designed to undermine the economy of my farm. Years ago I passed draconian legislation to deal with this threat. I granted special powers to myself to act as judge, jury and executioner. Excellent piece of legislation carried out with ruthless efficiency :D

Birdnuts

vcsggl wrote: »

If this is a serious threat it's a very sad indictment of how Ireland has changed so much in recent years. One of the great delights of this country was a healthy scepticism of bureaucratic busybodies and a readiness to disregard petty rules and regulations formulated and imposed by those who didn't usually understand anything about which they were legislating.

I guess this is the price of progress - progress as defined by Eurocrats sitting in Brussels!

George

You seem to be totally unaware of the damage this indiscriminate practice from the dark ages has done to protected wildlife, game and pets over the years - whats your problem with banning it given all the safer alternatives out there:rolleyes:

PS: Check out the hunting forum for the excellent advice on dealing legally with vermin - indeed many of the members around the country would only be too happy to help out any farmer with vermin problems efficiently, safely and legally -same goes for your local GC:)

vcsggl

No Birdnuts - I'm not completely unaware but like so much of "new" legislation it's based on the priciple of using a sledgehammer to crack a nut. Of course there were some problems with unwise and indiscriminate use of poisons but the problems in fact were relatively few compared with the scale of the problems caused by vermin. Farmers in general are very good at keeping things in perspective and will almost always tailor their responses to the particular job in hand. Office-bound bureaucrats on the other hand have little understanding of what happens on the ground and dream up legislation that covers every conceivable possibility and assumes that every conceivable possibility is likely to happen every day. It's far easier to come up with a bit of blanket legislation than to properly research the problem and develop appropriate and reasonable control measures.

BeeDI has the right idea, we need a few more guys like him legislating for the farming community !

George

Birdnuts

vcsggl wrote: »

No Birdnuts - I'm not completely unaware but like so much of "new" legislation it's based on the priciple of using a sledgehammer to crack a nut. Of course there were some problems with unwise and indiscriminate use of poisons but the problems in fact were relatively few compared with the scale of the problems caused by vermin. Farmers in general are very good at keeping things in perspective and will almost always tailor their responses to the particular job in hand. Office-bound bureaucrats on the other hand have little understanding of what happens on the ground and dream up legislation that covers every conceivable possibility and assumes that every conceivable possibility is likely to happen every day. It's far easier to come up with a bit of blanket legislation than to properly research the problem and develop appropriate and reasonable control measures.

BeeDI has the right idea, we need a few more guys like him legislating for the farming community !

George

Unfortunatly the scale of the problems in recent years with a large number of poisonings involving endangered/protected wildlife, pets etc highlighted the fact that the legislation needed to be brought in line with every other civilized Western country. It was also damaging the image of Irish Agriculture home and abroad particulary when so much tax-payers money goes into schemes like REPS etc. which in theory are paid to Irish farmers to improve environmental standards. Something which i support but which can be hard to justify to non-farmers when pictures of poisoned endangered wildlife, game etc. appears in the media!!

Anyway the farmers in my area along with the majority in the country are responsible enough to use the many safer, legal, and humane methods already well outlined and discussed in this thread