Birdgard.

Farmer Pudsey

Have any of you tried this are they any good. Have an issue with crows cannot keep them out of yard. The yard is away from house and tried shooting , banger even hanging one or two around the place

http://www.birdgard.co.uk/birdgard-proplus-c-2/birdgard-proplus-p-2

Costs 400+Vat however they give a money back gaurantee

Zr105

Have one here, i be honest works a bit at first but then they don't seem bothered by it we we're tryin to get starlings out of grain shed but have crow card aswell, we generally get fed up of it and switch it back off as it doesn't seem to be doin much anyway.....

Farmer Pudsey

Zr105 wrote: »

Have one here, i be honest works a bit at first but then they don't seem bothered by it we we're tryin to get starlings out of grain shed but have crow card aswell, we generally get fed up of it and switch it back off as it doesn't seem to be doin much anyway.....

Did you try to get refund on it.

Zr105

No it's still here, it does scare them off but like every thing they begin to get used to it,

Id say if you were moving it about a bit it would probably work better!

mathepac

I am in the unfortunate position of living in a residential area with two neighbours who keep poultry and both sets of clueless idiots leave the poultry food spread on the ground and outside in bowls overnight. Next door on the other side the gob-****es keep to half-bred staffordshire bull terriers, the chavvy dogs from UK TV. They leave bowls of dog-food out in the open overnight.

This of course has attracted every crow, magpie, grey and Christ knows what else from miles around into the area, ****ting on cars, washing, garden furniture and so on, cawing at ungodly hours, etc.

I downloaded a few raptor calls (eagles, hawks, harriers, sparrow hawks and so on) from the interweb and I play them at random intervals from speakers in the upstairs windows (burned to CD, speakers connected to an old iMac). It clears them (and all the little yokes I wanted to stay around unfortunately) due I think to the randomised nature of the calls. I was surprised how effective it proved to be.

The human neighbours complained, slackjawed, even after I pointed out that their feeding habits for their livestock were the sources of the problem. The tools with the dogs threatened to complain officially until I mentioned that I had them on video throwing dog-**** over their fence into neighbouring properties with a blue plastic child's shovel. The hens also stopped laying, as if I care.

Do a serch for raptor calls and download them. No fancy kit or software need. Just burn the CD and play it through an old stereo or PC on a loop.

reilig

Too expensive.

We bought one in Connaught Gold for €65 and it works perfectly. It's on a timer and also has a sensor. It was bought to keep the starlings away from around the house - it did that in 2012 and they didn't come back in 2013 either. Last winter we were feeding straw at a shed on an outfarm and had an awful problem with crows. We moved it there and it solved the problem.

ceannfort

Neighbour has tied fishing line at high level from building to building across the yard and reckons it definetly keeps all birds away?

Birdnuts

For extra effect you can use a simple scarecrow in the shape of a hawk/falcon in the same area