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Birds of biblical proportions

I talked to a pest control guy yesterday. He checked on the starlicide and said that its not approved for use in Indiana. He has used Avatrol before with great success. He did a job for the city of Ft Wayne and had dead pigeons everywhere. Kind of salty though

$300 for five pounds. Ive been trying the Golden Marlin. I get them coming to a bait station and then i put out the mix but they dont eat it. They go for the deer feed.

Im getting real tired of picking bird droppings out of the feed pans every day.
 
The birds are back. Not the flock of five trillion I counted last year, but a strong thousand, anyway. We still haven't had any real winter weather yet, and the Starling scouts are here for their coming friends. Any new advice would be appreciated. Oh yeah, and they seem to hit the water barrels as much as the feed...like a bunch of blood-sucking food stampers. Hope that doesn't offend anyone.
 
Is there a airgun ***. in your area they would love to come over and take care of your problem. If I was closer I would come and help you out. These guys are marksmen out to 50 yards and love the challenge.
 
You will have a mess on your hands if you have a couple thousand dead birds to pick up. The easiest way is to ONLY have feed out at night then pick up the leftover feed in the morning. Day time feeding, hay ONLY. They WILL leave where there is no feed.
 
can you use the poison bait on some deer feed OUT of the deer pens so that when they die, it is away from your feeders? since they dont seem to care for the bird seed....



we have turkeys all out in the deer plots that were planted, but come turkey season, not a 1 will be found.......lol
 
Picking up feed in the morning is a real crimp on a guy's work schedule. I tried the cat thing but cats figure out that my mom is a sucker for felines and they wind up watching TV with her and sipping coffee. The cats do go out to the pens but little impact, more of a mouser clan.
 
Well i'm going to try the fly bait soaked in to sunflower seed to see how it work's, will let you know if it works or not.
 
I do not know how well it would work, in Michigan the cherry farmers hang these metallic reflective streamers all throughout there orchards. Here is a link where you can find the tape. http://www.suttonag.com/VisualBirdControl.html



I dont know how deer would do with it, I suspect it wouldnt be to bad if you gradually introduced it. This is just my opinion, if it can keep flocks of birds away from wonderful cherry trees I would certainly like to think it would offer similar protection on your farm.



-Johnny B
 
i have gotten along a lot better with a pellet feed that has no whole grain mixed in it. birds seem to leave my feeders alone now. i may be sacrificing some growth? but at least the @#$% birds are gone.

tom
 
if they will eat a rabbits make sure they won't eat a bird before you use golden marlin.

B B gun pump it a lot so B B goes through. Don't want any tooth damage ether
 
I tried raw rice last year, also Golden Marlin with millet, couldn't get them to eat anything but feed, which is 100% pellets. The streamers would be a cheap, easy thing to try...been thinking about looking for a plastic owl, but can't see that it would work for too long. I have been told and read that if you know where they are roosting, they can be scared from their roost on three or four consecutive nights and that they will leave. I don't really know where they are roosting around here-there are too many options.
 
I could show you a picture of my plastic owl with bird poop on it. Had the same problem with birds only smaller scale. I switched to pelleted feed until they moved on. Nothing more satisfying than blasting a shotgun round into the bunch of them. Three is my max one shot bust but had a friend get seven with one blast!



One day I saw a hawk swoop in and blast a cardinal right off the fence. A poof of feathers at impact. I now have a hawk nesting in my pen. Guess there is more than one bird that has discovered the location of abundance of food.
 
Rusty, thanks...but, still no relief for me. Even if I had a dozen friends who could lick 7 with each shot, it would still be a long winter...shooting is not the answer with this many birds.
 

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