Crows, Crows, Crows!

Brass Tag

5 calves born here first week December.
Started leaving out a handful of starter nuts for them in a trough to get them started eating meal.
Past few days place black with crows. Looked into the shed there now via the camera. About 20 crows standing in the trough cleaning it out.
Any ideas??

Mehaffey1

Eagle poo if you can get your hands in/on it.

Capercaille

Brass Tag wrote: »

5 calves born here first week December.
Started leaving out a handful of starter nuts for them in a trough to get them started eating meal.
Past few days place black with crows. Looked into the shed there now via the camera. About 20 crows standing in the trough cleaning it out.
Any ideas??

For magpies/grey crows larsen/ladder trap will work well. Crow banger works well.

Birdnuts

Feed cattle late in the evening when the crows are leaving to roost is probably the best option. Another option is to shoot a few and hang them around the shed, usually keeps them out for a good while. A couple of simple scarecrows can also be effective - the likes of plastic hawks etc. or just your traditional type

Night Nav

Anyone try the birdgard scarer that for sale on donedeal

sh1tstirrer

My neighbour uses a hawk kite the crows are well used to it as in not taking a blind nit of notice of it. Crows are very intelligent birds and not easily fooled.

sh1tstirrer

Brass Tag wrote: »

5 calves born here first week December.
Started leaving out a handful of starter nuts for them in a trough to get them started eating meal.
Past few days place black with crows. Looked into the shed there now via the camera. About 20 crows standing in the trough cleaning it out.
Any ideas??

The best solution is one if those troughs with plastic flaps to keep birds away from the feed.

smokey-fitz

Tie a white meal or fert bag out of the shed or gate. It flaps around and keeps them away, worked for me anyway.

whelan2

loads of crows here too, thought they normally dont arrive til may?

Base price

Over the years we have tried bird scarer's, hanging up dead crows and using one of those imitation flying hawk type things. After a few days the crows just get used to them and ignore them.
As Birdnuts suggested feed meal in the evening time when the crows have gone to roost that is presuming that you have a light in the shed so that you can observe the calves properly.

DarByrne1980

Base price wrote: »

As Birdnuts suggested feed meal in the evening time when the crows have gone to roost that is presuming that you have a light in the shed so that you can observe the calves properly.

I agree wit da lads here. The crows are a feckin pest. we actually got our hands on the big nets dat they put behind GAA goal posts (it was a bit torned). anyway. we fixed this to dat front of the shed. rolled it over the entrance - crows cudnt get thro it. worked grate.

Good loser

Put meal in the bottom of 5 gallon drum(s).

Only one crow can fit in at a time and none while calves eating.