how to stop crows coming into the sheds

GERMAN ROCKS

went powerwashing out the slats and cubicals today and noticed the crows are coming in and sitting on the a pillars in the sheds and ****ting everywhere in between. anyway of stopping these coming in?

blue5000

Picture of a hawk is supposed to work
http://www.hawkbirdscarer.com/

whelan1

they normally **** off when the corn gets ripe

Grainne2012

The old boy beside me (who has farmed all his life) takes one crow out with the shotgun, and hangs it on fishing wire, upside down, at the front of the sheds.
Acts as a deterrent and works like a charm, apparently.
Looks horrific, but hey, what would I know

Atilathehun

blue5000 wrote: »

Picture of a hawk is supposed to work
http://www.hawkbirdscarer.com/

Works for about a week. Then they just ignore it and sh1t on it at will:o

epfff

Atilathehun wrote: »

blue5000 wrote: »

Picture of a hawk is supposed to work
http://www.hawkbirdscarer.com/

Works for about a week. Then they just ignore it and sh1t on it at will:o

I find much the same with hanging crow
Half local gun club using my sheds for practice at the min.
They shooting a few every day and they still come back for more

BeeDI

I gave up trying to keep crows out. Can't be done.
Only thing is to try minimise their raids.
In the winter, if you are feeding meals in a shed by simply throwing the meal on top of the silage, then you get what you deserve. Crows, crows, and more crows, plus plenty rats into the bergain.
Nine inch corripipe, split in the middle and cut to the length of the pen, makes a handy meal trough. Lob the corripipe feeder on top of the silage in at the barrier. Lob the meal into the feeder. Cattle eat the meal and push the corripipe out of their way, to continue on eating silage. Much, much less wasted meal, and less reason for the crows and rats to spend all day rummaging through the silage to mop up the meal.
Hopefully, your neighbours on two sides are simply banging meal on top of the silage, in their sheds. They have crows, you don't:p

lakill Farm

I started to use 12" corri twin wall pipe as below last november along with a jfc meal tub (600kg)Paid for themselves last winter. Buying meal cheaper in in bulk compared to bags, no rats in bags and no rats in the sheds. Every morning the half pipes are in the centre of the feed passage. (i got the idea of boards )

BeeDI wrote: »

Nine inch corripipe, split in the middle and cut to the length of the pen, makes a handy meal trough. Lob the corripipe feeder on top of the silage in at the barrier. Lob the meal into the feeder. Cattle eat the meal and push the corripipe out of their way, to continue on eating silage. Much, much less wasted meal, and less reason for the crows and rats to spend all day rummaging through the silage to mop up the meal.
Hopefully, your neighbours on two sides are simply banging meal on top of the silage, in their sheds. They have crows, you don't:p

aidanki

go visit any of the countries main bus stations

on the wallplates they have a bolt on flat steel surface with lots and lots of spikes, surely one spike per square inch, birds can't perch on them and seem not to nest either

have also heard if you rub creosate to the timber in the shed that the birds won't nest/land on it

anyone with a new shed with creosate on the timber that can verify/disprove this theory for us

Pat the lad

dab some grease along the bars and/or rafters

Bizzum

Anyone use these Hawk Terror Kites that are advertised in the Journal every week?
Any reports on them?

majorsharpes

anything stationary is useless not sure bout dat kite ting at last yrs ploughing i saw 1 dare, for €135.

dodderangler

Where you livin?
I brought my Harris hawk to work once a month to deter pigeons and crows
Just let her fly around for half hour or so and we wouldn't see a crow or pigeons for ages
Worked a treat
Fake birds of prey aren't great as the crows will cop that it doesn't move

Good loser

dodderangler wrote: »

Where you livin?
I brought my Harris hawk to work once a month to deter pigeons and crows
Just let her fly around for half hour or so and we wouldn't see a crow or pigeons for ages
Worked a treat
Fake birds of prey aren't great as the crows will cop that it doesn't move

Is it easy to buy a Harris hawk? How much roughly? How long do they live?

paddymayoman

Flap you arms while shouting I AM SPARTACUS

dodderangler

@Good loser
It isn't really easy to get a Harris though without a licence no one will sell it to you
So licence needs to be gotten and prices range from 500-800 for a female and 250-500 for a male females bein the most common due to their ability to take larger quarry than males
They can live up to 25 years aswell
But as I said a licence is needed and a ranger will come out to inspect the area that it'd be kept in

have2flushtwice

ive had this problem on the farm and at work, and a few different solutions are available.
firstly, at work health and safety is very important, so no shotguns allowed! The flying vermin that land in the roof and build nests. (eg pigeons are a problem in a "major outdoor sporting venue, and they **** everywhere too.) a hawk was deployed every few weeks, and this took care of business.
however this isnt cheap and a quick search on youtube revealed a new type of deterrant. if the problem is a seagull, they will come along with the sound of a seagull in distress and play it, and the seagulls will think there is something very dangerous going on and they will scatter...... so they said. and for 1200 euro i wasnt going to take the chance. So i played the video again and recorded the soundtrack onto a CD, popped it into the portable DVD player and went for a walk. it actually worked!

on the other hand, in reality (eg on the farm!!) they were coming into the lean-to, and sitting on the steel beams. the pellet gun made them fly away, but they were back ten minutes after i left the shed.
I thought long and hard, and discovered the following:
they cannot land on the flat without a bounce. they can land on the edge of a piece of angle iron as their feet can wrap around it if its pointing upwards. i know this cos i could see where the **** was on the floor! and they wont bounce on a flat angle iron.
so i got my roll of baling twine, and wrapped it round and round and round, up and down between the girders, where they were landing, and they stopped! thinking back it would be easier to use chicken wire and just cable tie it to it.
also, if you run a piece of fishing wire, pulled tightly just above the edge where they are landing, they will/may land but wont be able to take off, and they will go away also.

As for shooting, its been stated that more just keep arriving - this is the same as a fox, if you kill one, another will arrive to take over his feeding grounds.

hope this helps, let me know how ye get on!

NewBeefFarmer

well, i have same problem, but ive been told to be good and let them be. .. swallows. . . must have about 30-40 of the little . . . . nothing but crap everywhere, and i dont mind it at all until it gets on machinary/tractors. . what i was thinking this year but didnt get around to it .. . is suspend net from the ceiling to stop them getting any hire than the block wall around the shed. .
that or, net off the open entrance at the back for the summer, and avoid opening the large door if at all possible for long periods. ..

one of these options will be done. . . i have to. . . . rust is a problem with bird s"""" . .and the amount of it l .. . krikey. . .. GRrrrr mad now thinking about it. . .

going for a walk to see the herd.

have2flushtwice

NewBeefFarmer wrote: »

well, i have same problem, but ive been told to be good and let them be. .. swallows. . . must have about 30-40 of the little . . . . nothing but crap everywhere, and i dont mind it at all until it gets on machinary/tractors. . what i was thinking this year but didnt get around to it .. . is suspend net from the ceiling to stop them getting any hire than the block wall around the shed. .
that or, net off the open entrance at the back for the summer, and avoid opening the large door if at all possible for long periods. ..

one of these options will be done. . . i have to. . . . rust is a problem with bird s"""" . .and the amount of it l .. . krikey. . .. GRrrrr mad now thinking about it. . .

going for a walk to see the herd.

is it illegal to harm swallows? As in is it illegal not to pay your household charge!

Birdnuts

have2flushtwice wrote: »

is it illegal to harm swallows? As in is it illegal not to pay your household charge!

Yes - they are fully protected. Most will be gone in a few weeks anyways to sunnier climes.

knownothing

shoot any thing that moves. where do the crows roost at night if nearby try a few screamer firework rockets at dusk and dawn.trouble is these are illegal on our island of saints and politicians

Qualitymark

Sparrowhawks, ma'am?

Or you could use the spiky things urban councils and train stations use to stop pigeons landing.

LostCovey

knownothing wrote: »

shoot any thing that moves.

Proving that you are really well named.

xchrisshana

a good day shooting well put a damper on them

knownothing

LostCovey wrote: »

Proving that you are really well named.

why so

LostCovey

knownothing wrote: »

why so

If you advocate "shooting anything that moves" you really know nothing about Ireland.

You belong in Texas or some hillbilly redneck community in the deepest depths of Louisana where your views would find a sympathetic audience.

Yee-Haw! Squeal like a piggy!

stoneill

Do this: