Big Black "Crows" Attacking Sheep

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som farmer

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Livestock Farmer

Location

somerset

• Mar 7, 2024

• #21

absolutely evil things, the people who 'claim' to be protecting nature, ought to see the blind ewes, or ones with their guts pulled out, but then, they would blame 'something' else did it.

could shoot loads of them, when l don't have a gun, otherwise its a rifle. Here its the 'big' crows, that are not to many of, thankfully.

this drive for 'protecting' everything, is upsetting a balance, that has been managed for 2/300 years, you simply cannot protect everything, if the apex predators, are allowed to massively increase. Then they refuse to accept where the problem is, their stock answer, is 'farmers and intensive farming'.

 

neilo

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Mixed Farmer

Location

Montgomeryshire

• Mar 7, 2024

• #22

delilah said:

The bodger in me sees that and thinks IBC cage.

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The easily distracted lazy toad in me got most of a ladder trap like the one posted above built several years ago, with pretty much just the roof & ladder to build. It’s sat in the shed like that for 5 or 6 years now.

Free to anyone relatively local that wants to collect it and finish it off…

 

Dry Rot

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Livestock Farmer

Location

Scottish Highlands

• Mar 7, 2024

• #23

Sorry to have to say it, but there needs to be some good video, then plaster it all over social media. Of course, some would claim it is fake but nothing gets the message across like the moving image.

I recently advertised a piece of equipment with still photographs. Absolutely no interest. Then I posted the ad with a short video, 58 seconds, and I've had a big response. But who could sit idly by filming while a ewe gets it's eyes removed? If just a still image, they would claim it lost it on a piece of barbed wire.

 

muleman

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• Mar 8, 2024

• #24

Got 800 crows and a buzzard in a ladder trap one august. Once a few go in a crowd seems to attract a crowd, would have 60 or 70 in at a time!

 

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bluebell

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• Mar 8, 2024

• #25

Exactly why do you think that they used to go knocking out crows, rooks nests, my mum said she saw that where she lived in the 1950s? Its the "modern" diconnect with farming, raising/protecting animals? All this and more will change in an instant if, as i keep on mentioning a serious situation like the food shortage in ww2 happened?

 

hoyboy

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• Mar 8, 2024

• #26

I had a ladder trap on the go a few years ago, it worked well, it caught a lot of crows. then one day a big hawk / buzzard bird of pray thing got in and killed all the crows that were already in it. No crows ever went in it again after that

 

Bobthebuilder

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Mixed Farmer

Location

northumberland

• Mar 8, 2024

• #27

Have most success with the ladder trap in the spring/summer with the young crows before they get too streetwise, just bait it with a bag of meal, worst job is dispatching them when you catch 50-100 at a time

 

hoyboy

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• Mar 8, 2024

• #28

Bobthebuilder said:

Have most success with the ladder trap in the spring/summer with the young crows before they get too streetwise, just bait it with a bag of meal, worst job is dispatching them when you catch 50-100 at a time

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Na, after you've had to knock many a perfectly good lamb on the head because a crow has took it's tongue you find great delight in setting about a cage full of them with a pick handle

 

pycoed

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Location

Pontarddulais, UK

• Mar 9, 2024

• #29

Could you let a terrier or two into the trap when full? Asking for a friend.

 

RushesToo

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Location

Fingringhoe

• Mar 9, 2024

• #30

pycoed said:

Could you let a terrier or two into the trap when full? Asking for a friend.

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If anything needs to be dispatched it should be as quick and painless as possible. Terriers tend to be loud and that seems a bit off to me.

 

HarryB97

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Mixed Farmer

• Mar 9, 2024

• #31

Frank-the-Wool said:

They are just big Crows.
What do you need to put in the Ladder tarp to encourage them in?

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Someone good with a rifle in a high seat would soon sort them out