Crows!!

miniconnect

Member

Location

Argyll

• Jul 2, 2016

• #1

Any helpful tips for getting rid of crows? Have spent today chasing about 60 crows round and round our winter barley fields. I've 2 bangers going randomly, about 20 CDs hanging on posts blowing in the wind and a bunch of plastic bags tied around doing the same.

Any other suggestions greatfully received before the destroy what was already some ropey looking winter barley.

 

copse

Member

Mixed Farmer

• Jul 2, 2016

• #2

shoot and hang a few dead ones up.

 

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Grim Reaper

Member

Location

Aberdeenshire

• Jul 2, 2016

• #3

A pal and myself have shot 600+ over the last two weeks

 

miniconnect

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Location

Argyll

• Jul 2, 2016

• #4

Grim Reaper said:

A pal and myself have shot 600+ over the last two weeks

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Do you fancy a holiday to kintyre?! Got a friend coming tomorrow if he's got time. If the sun would come out and make the grain too hard it would be ideal!

 

Jim Bullock

Never Forgotten

Honorary Member

Location

Nr Malvern... SW Worcestershire

• Jul 2, 2016

• #5

We have a similar problem on our winter wheat...they land in the tramlines and pull down the crop to get at the ears. They will have taken out several acres by harvest...! We have some Spaldings kites which work for a day or two but with and deterrent all you do is to move them to another field.

 

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Grim Reaper

Member

Location

Aberdeenshire

• Jul 2, 2016

• #6

We shot them on silage stubbles, decoying just like pigeons. Thinking of creating some sort of ladder trap to go over a calf creep, they've found the creep feed this last few days

 

rob1

Member

Location

wiltshire

• Jul 3, 2016

• #7

used helium ballons when we had problems they work really well until some pansy nicks them

 

Fuzzy

Member

Arable Farmer

Location

Bedfordshire

• Jul 3, 2016

• #8

They have cleared a couple of acres of BG infested Winter Barley here ! Plenty of Pigeons around as well !!
I am now thinking of cutting the barley at a painful 20% just so it is in the shed and not the crows!!!

 

milkloss

Member

Livestock Farmer

Location

East Sussex

• Jul 3, 2016

• #9

Rooks if they've got baggy trousers but, yes, they are artful bstards!!

Maybe go on shooting forums and try and filter the genuine shooters out?

 

Kevtherev

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Location

Welshpool Powys

• Jul 3, 2016

• #10

Get some shooters in is the only real answer they take some stopping

 

Dr. Alkathene

Member

Livestock Farmer

Location

North West England

• Jul 3, 2016

• #11

Leave a few dead ones belly up, wings outstretched where they are landing in the flat crop / tramlines, hang a few more dead ones from fence posts and trees. You will need a steady supply of dead ones as they will get scavenged.

 

Kevtherev

Member

✓

Location

Welshpool Powys

• Jul 3, 2016

• #12

Bird scaring rockets ?

 

Bobthebuilder

Member

Mixed Farmer

Location

northumberland

• Jul 3, 2016

• #13

Or a ladder trap

Set out on Thursday only half a dozen in by Friday lunchtime so left them, then 96 thismorning

 

Dr. Alkathene

Member

Livestock Farmer

Location

North West England

• Jul 3, 2016

• #14

What bait have you used in there @Bobthebuilder

 

Dr. Alkathene

Member

Livestock Farmer

Location

North West England

• Jul 3, 2016

• #15

Anyone wanting to build a ladder trap.
https://basc.org.uk/game-and-gamekeeping/how-to-make-a-ladder-trap/

http://basc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2016/02/Ladder-Trap-Guide-sheet.pdf

https://basc.org.uk/films/2016/02/23/how-to-make-a-ladder-trap/

 

Bobthebuilder

Member

Mixed Farmer

Location

northumberland

• Jul 3, 2016

• #16

Dr. Alkathene said:

What bait have you used in there @Bobthebuilder

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Just a bit of meal we have for the cattle

 

Kevtherev

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Location

Welshpool Powys

• Jul 3, 2016

• #17

Bobthebuilder said:

Or a ladder trap
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Set out on Thursday only half a dozen in by Friday lunchtime so left them, then 96 thismorning
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@neilo

 

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woody 1

Member

Arable Farmer

Location

East

• Jul 3, 2016

• #18

Bobthebuilder said:

Or a ladder trap
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Set out on Thursday only half a dozen in by Friday lunchtime so left them, then 96 thismorning
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So how do you kill them once you have caught them ?

 

S J H

Member

Livestock Farmer

Location

Bedfordshire

• Jul 3, 2016

• #19

Dr. Alkathene said:

Anyone wanting to build a ladder trap.
https://basc.org.uk/game-and-gamekeeping/how-to-make-a-ladder-trap/

http://basc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2016/02/Ladder-Trap-Guide-sheet.pdf

https://basc.org.uk/films/2016/02/23/how-to-make-a-ladder-trap/

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Thanks for that, I'll make one this week. The basteward things are everywhere.

 

Dr. Alkathene

Member

Livestock Farmer

Location

North West England

• Jul 3, 2016

• #20

woody 1 said:

So how do you kill them once you have caught them ?

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Gloves on, get hold and hit them sharply on the head with a priest. I didn't bother with gloves til one drew a fair bit of blood on my hands and it got infected, guess corvids don't brush their beaks very often.