Crows

[llamedos]

It there a way to deter them, without resorting to loud noises?
Across the valley from me there is the crow equivilent of a rookery?? Hundreds of them turn up at nightfall, but before they go off to their roost they have taken to landing on the field where my flock are settling and plucking great lumps of wool off the sheeps backs as well as sh*tting all over the place, not seen this before with crows, the odd maggy yes, but around 50 at a time are landing There is nothing else for them to eat, they arnt turning the sheep muck for beetles, just wool plucking.

 

[JohnGalway]

I don't know about deterring them, but if you want to catch them in numbers consider a ladder trap.

 

[Jerry]

Get one or two shot and hang them up by their feet and they won't come near that feld for a good few weed.

 

[snowhite]

mirrors are said to work, but they have to turn and catch the sun light , , having no sun could rule that out , lol

 

[pigdogduck]

We have empty sacks hanging in the top half of the doorways in our cubicle sheds. Doesn't look good but never get birds in there. Also dead crows hanging in front of the calf shed has the same effect. But in a field? No idea.

 

[snowhite]

can you use poison

 

[mushnt grummmble]

can you use poison

only lead poison

 

[wobs]

shoot the buggers simple as that.use banger ropes where they are roosting and move them on.

 

[snowhite]

my brother in law is a priest and had a house in north of IRELAND once he poisoned the crows that used to drop on his car and the woman cleaning the church was trying to nurse them back to health ,lol

 

[wobs]

Typical Priest i suppose!
nothing sacred to them.

 

[Exfarmer]

It there a way to deter them, without resorting to loud noises?
Across the valley from me there is the crow equivilent of a rookery?? Hundreds of them turn up at nightfall, but before they go off to their roost they have taken to landing on the field where my flock are settling and plucking great lumps of wool off the sheeps backs as well as sh*tting all over the place, not seen this before with crows, the odd maggy yes, but around 50 at a time are landing There is nothing else for them to eat, they arnt turning the sheep muck for beetles, just wool plucking.

Look one rook is a crow
A mob of crows are rooks
So you have rooks not crows
The wool is to line their nests
Don't you like a comfy bed?

 

[llamedos]

Look one rook is a crow
A mob of crows are rooks
So you have rooks not crows
The wool is to line their nests
Don't you like a comfy bed?

Rooks no, crows yes, we dont have rooks or ravens or jackdaws, we have crows. Any how bloke across hill has turned some ewes n lambs out, so they are someone elses problem now.
And they are known as a murder!

 

[Exfarmer]

Rooks no, crows yes, we dont have rooks or ravens or jackdaws, we have crows. Any how bloke across hill has turned some ewes n lambs out, so they are someone elses problem now.
And they are known as a murder!

I will give you a murder of crows but what colour are the beaks?

 

[Tha Ulsterscot]

get a bag load of spent cartridges from your local clay bird shoot and spread them over the field. Problem solved. They don't like the smell.

 

[llamedos]

I will give you a murder of crows but what colour are the beaks?

Oh thats kind I realy am quite aware of the differences between them.

Black.

 

[Exfarmer]

My apologies

 

[roscoe erf]

Oh thats kind I realy am quite aware of the differences between them.

Black.

you cant say black use ethnic/or coloured

 

[llamedos]

you cant say black use ethnic/or coloured

 

[roscoe erf]

don't worry i think you got away with it

 

[llamedos]

My apologies

I honestly did not understand your earlier post which started "look"
am I wrong in thinking although all are corvids, the Crow/rook/raven/jackdaw are all quite diffrent?
Jackdaws we seldom see except in the towns, I have never seen a rook or a raven in my locality.
I have seen rookerys,outside my localle, and as I said, these crows behave in the same way, there are hundreds at dusk I wasnt sure what a collection of crows this big was called when roosting together.