birds pecking haylage bales

[glasshouse]

whats the best solution

 

[Northeastfarmer]

A gun

 

[glasshouse]

I was thinking pallets or tyres on top
shooting not practical

 

[Northeastfarmer]

A net

 

[glasshouse]

A net

they will pick through it

 

[Northeastfarmer]

they will pick through it

Put tyres underneath it to lift it off the bales

 

[beef 1]

Draw some large bird eyes on with whitewash or paint

 

[glasshouse]

Lost possibly 80 bales to crows
Didnt lose one last yr

 

[Pan mixer]

I put a random bale on top of the3 layers that I stack every 100 bales or so.

The birds all seem to go for those and none of the others.

I am glad that my problem is not as bad as some on here though. Touch wood

 

[Shane s]

Im having the same problem this year have an outfarm with 60 haylage bales wrapped and the crows has detroyed them from the minute they were made i have tried putting grease on top of the bales scare crows you name it nothing is working, however at the home farm 3 miles away crows hasnt attacked a single bale out of the 100no. I also have about 1000 small haylage bales at home and crows never touched them however i made about 500no. small haylage bales all wrapped on the saturday on the outfarm and when i went back to start lift them on the monday every single bale was destroyed and i had to rewrap them all. I dont use any scarecrows or anything at the home farm and the crows dont go near them.

 

[beefandsleep]

I put a random bale on top of the3 layers that I stack every 100 bales or so.

The birds all seem to go for those and none of the others.

I am glad that my problem is not as bad as some on here though. Touch wood

You stacked them the wrong way.

 

[Bob the beef]

You stacked them the wrong way.

Yep always stack them tin can style . Touch wood, never have many problems despite having plenty crows round about

 

[homefarm]

We use the ones they pecked in previous years as @Pan mixer but ours are square and we put two or three on top of every row.

Our latest problem is rabbits living in the pile and ruining the bottom bales in the middle

 

[HarryB97]

Wether I stack as tin cans or on their side all stacks get sheeted with gale breaker covers. 10 year guarantee and if they save a bale and a half a year they pay for them selves. They are also really slippy so very easy to drag about on your own.

 

[Dog Bowl]

Wether I stack as tin cans or on their side all stacks get sheeted with gale breaker covers. 10 year guarantee and if they save a bale and a half a year they pay for them selves. They are also really slippy so very easy to drag about on your own.

Did exactly the same here. Problem solved.

 

[Pan mixer]

We use the ones they pecked in previous years as @Pan mixer but ours are square and we put two or three on top of every row.

Our latest problem is rabbits living in the pile and ruining the bottom bales in the middle

We have to rabbit fence ours which is a pain, the back and one side are permanent, the other two sides are 16 foot sections made of 4 by 2 with wire stapled on so that they can be moved - we used to lose dozens of bales to rabbits before we did that.

 

[Far Gloss]

Tyres on top of the bales seems to work here.

 

[An ancient git]

Used green wrap for years now . Keeps bales cooler than black , whatever the DM or summer degC . Never had a bird problem since .... and the stack in yard is NOT covered .

 

[bobk]

Used green wrap for years now . Keeps bales cooler than black , whatever the DM or summer degC . Never had a bird problem since .... and the stack in yard is NOT covered .

I find the same , green wrap doesn't get affected anywhere near as much as black

 

[sixrow]

paint brush and a pot of grease strip on each bale works here.