You need an avix system in FAST.
Infested ... and helpless. Ideas?
- Thread starter Bald Rick
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- Location
- Ballyclare Northern Ireland
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- somerset
well into year 3, with no starlings, a batch started appearing late afternoon, in the cold spell, but we moved them on, and they haven't come back.
And we used to have 1,000's of them come in, nothing has changed in the TMR, except the cows get all the conc, minus what a few sparrows eat.
And we used to have 1,000's of them come in, nothing has changed in the TMR, except the cows get all the conc, minus what a few sparrows eat.
Boohoo
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- Location
- Newtownabbey
Looks like they don't like LED lights, or at least they don't like them on this bridge in Belfast
Starlings: Did light pollution ruin Belfast murmuration?
Large crowds often gathered in east Belfast to watch and photograph the display, known as a murmuration.
www.bbc.co.uk
- Location
- South Molton
Baldy's sheep and beef neighbour getting a bit angry?
Suckndiesel
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- Location
- Newtownards
Same here, just working towards a maize and wholecrop free forage system, to keep them away longer.HELL YEAH ......... b'stards have gone from today
Here's to a catastrophic breeding season
Gerbert
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- Location
- Dutch biblebelt
With the length of this thread it is bound to proposed already but here goes, laserlights?
I have a green laserlight in my pocket and starlings really hate it as do most birds.
I have a pigshed starlings took a liking to and when I walk bit I shone through the window with the laser (cheap ish from amazon).
There are these cattoys that have a laserlight going on intermittently, I am thinking of buying one.
Odd thing is neither cow nor pig care about the light.
I have a green laserlight in my pocket and starlings really hate it as do most birds.
I have a pigshed starlings took a liking to and when I walk bit I shone through the window with the laser (cheap ish from amazon).
There are these cattoys that have a laserlight going on intermittently, I am thinking of buying one.
Odd thing is neither cow nor pig care about the light.
Oh yeah, baby.
Greeks have built this beast called the Minotaur that fires nothing but high velocity laser beams
Bet I’d have no problem encouraging the men to control the starlings with this to hand
www.unmannedairspace.info
Greeks have built this beast called the Minotaur that fires nothing but high velocity laser beams
Bet I’d have no problem encouraging the men to control the starlings with this to hand
Greek scientists develop mobile high power laser counter drone device ‘Minotaur’ - Unmanned airspace
A report on Greek public television ERT describes a mobile counter drone system equipped with a large 300 kWh laser unit. Greek inventor Kostas Soukos
www.unmannedairspace.info
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- Location
- Scottish Highlands
If I lived closer and if I were younger, what fun I could have..... but if "'ifs" and "ands" were pots and pans, there'd be no need for tinkers".... I'd be getting one of these. But they are delicate little blighters and need very careful experienced management.
www.birdtrader.co.uk
2023 sparrowhawk chicks for sale
2 week's old sparrowhawks make good weights usually around 9.5 to 10.5 hunting weights pure head hunters
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Fed grass silage, rape meal and soya hulls last winter and not a starling in sight.
Coastal?
5 miles away. Used to get plenty with the maize or whole crop.
Farm expects £15,000 per month feed savings by starling-proofing sheds
Investing £30k in starling-proofing cattle housing is a major outlay for a dairy farm but it calculates a payback period of just 2 months in feed savings alone.
Farm expects £15,000 per month feed savings by starling-proofing sheds
Investing £30k in starling-proofing cattle housing is a major outlay for a dairy farm but it calculates a payback period of just 2 months in feed savings alone.www.farminguk.com
Can see plenty of holes/gaps in that set up I'm afraid through which they'll wriggle and it's not really protecting the feed - which is where they say their losses are as there is a big gap where the drop downs meet.
NOTHING (well one thing) stops the pluckers.
Headless chicken
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- Location
- West Wales
portech gas gun been going just shy of a week now. ROI of 4 days with increased milk. Had to change the ration to reduce maize as cows had gone so stiff, we assume because the birds are now not pinching all the starch.
Jdunn55
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- Location
- Helston, cornwall
Second year of feeding maize here
Still haven't had a starling on the farm...
Still haven't had a starling on the farm...
Milkcow365
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- Location
- Sw Scotland
Any links
Headless chicken
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- Location
- West Wales
got my spellling wrong which wasn’t helpful.
Portek Scatterbird MK4 gas powered bird scaring gun
Scatterbird MK4 is the next generation of gas powered bird scarers. Sturdy, purpose built bird scaring gas gun designed to meet the needs of the farmer.
portek.co.uk
£360 ish I think. Sounds like a cannon going off. Any birds that come back between bangs are much less and extremely skittish.