Rook control

[Horn&corn]

Real challenge with massive rook population. They are smart and won’t stay if they sniff a gun about. We've had professional shooters in and they just don’t touch the population.
They decimate the cow tmr and any seed grain in the ground. Then they trample growing crops and strip grain. Bangers can go all day but won’t put them off.
any suggestions welcome. Too smart for any design of ladder trap we’ve tried.

 

[ffukedfarmer]

Real challenge with massive rook population. They are smart and won’t stay if they sniff a gun about. We've had professional shooters in and they just don’t touch the population.
They decimate the cow tmr and any seed grain in the ground. Then they trample growing crops and strip grain. Bangers can go all day but won’t put them off.
any suggestions welcome. Too smart for any design of ladder trap we’ve tried.

similar issue here

 

[Yale]

Is blasting rookeries a thing still or have the woke brigade banned it?

 

[Wombat]

Busy pulling beans out here the fecking things.

 

[yellowbelly]

Shoot some and hang them upside down so their wings open out and flap in the wind.

They don't like to see their mates in 'distress' and will bu99er off somewhere else and thus be somebody else's problem.

 

[tr250]

Shoot all you young ones as they come out the nests around 12th may

 

[Fish]

Decoy them in , owl decoy or a dead fox.

 

[Bob c]

Ladder trap

Ladder traps for rooks, jackdaws, etc

Been thinking about making one of these up for reducing numbers a bit. Got Jackdaws playing merry hell around the buildings and rooks everywhere on the farm (& next door). Thinking we'd make one up and share it between us to get on top of them a bit. I was thinking of making it with 2" x 2"...

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[michael N123]

Is blasting rookeries a thing still or have the woke brigade banned it?

A slab of cartridges doesn’t last long doing that job bit more sporting with the air gun but I can’t be bothered with it nowadays

 

[milkloss]

Shoot all you young ones as they come out the nests around 12th may

Always seem earlier than that round here.

 

[tr250]

Always seem earlier than that round here.

I said 12th because that’s what dad always says but it does seem to get earlier probably by a week I recon

 

[Dry Rot]

Pre-baiting seems to be the answer with traps. Spread a few eggs in the area of the trap so they get used to looking for them and, hopefully, hooked on an easy meal. Then some inside.