Silage bales and crows

Green farmer

What are lads strategies this year for protecting the bales from crow attack ?

Sam Kade

Draw in as soon as they are wrapped otherwise wrap in the yard.

weatherbyfoxer

Have savage problems with birds picking the outside bales in the stack the past few years the f##kers pick both top and bottom rows at the the bottom of the bales every year...anyone else suffer with this??

AntrimGlens

Green farmer wrote: »

What are lads strategies this year for protecting the bales from crow attack ?

Put a creep feeder in the field beside the one you are baling - it will be black with the hoors.

To be perfectly honest, its the one problem we have never encountered in twenty years of making baled silage is crows landing on them. There will be crows in the field but never seem to hop on the bales and i was asking a few lads about that recently and they've never experienced it either.

Maybe we've well fed crows and underfed calves! :rolleyes:

Sam Kade

weatherbyfoxer wrote: »

Have savage problems with birds picking the outside bales in the stack the past few years the f##kers pick both top and bottom rows at the the bottom of the bales every year...anyone else suffer with this??

No but my yard is enclosed in trees never had a crow land on a bale once stacked there. Is your yard more open?

Pacoa

I put grease on all mine this year and it's done the trick so far.

Second Toughest in_the Freshers

Is that pink wrap any good for keeping them off...

weatherbyfoxer

Pacoa wrote: »

I put grease on all mine this year and it's done the trick so far.

Think ill try that...yard is open with no trees around it

I said

Green farmer wrote: »

What are lads strategies this year for protecting the bales from crow attack ?

Paint them or get them into the yard ASAP

Kristopherus

I said wrote: »

Paint them or get them into the yard ASAP

Years ago I was driving near Gort and notice a field with the bales gathered in one corner. What the farmer or his family had painted in big white lettering was " F**k off Crows".:D

CloughCasey1

shotgun baling twine and 2x1 lats with a 3" nail on the top to hang off.

davidk1394

Second Toughest in_the Freshers wrote: »

Is that pink wrap any good for keeping them off...

We used the clear plastic for a neighbour of ours and no problem so far the crows landed beside them and just looked at them