keep birds out of the shed

rick2 in ohio · Apr 28, 2012

anyone know a way to keep birds out of a 3 sided open faced shed.most likely impossible i would say there droppings are making a mess on my three tractors and all of my equipment.only way to stop it that i can think of is put up some kind of screen or chicken wire stapled to the underside of the trusses but that would be a job in itself.anyone got any ideas.thanks
RICK

in-too-deep · Apr 28, 2012

Get some VHS or cassette tapes and take em apart and hang streamers. Gonna be hard to get rid of since theyre established.

Anonymous-0 · Apr 28, 2012

you got to get a flyin cat. lol

johndeereman · Apr 28, 2012

Hang a owl statue in there it"s a natural predator if you hang it from a rope the wind will move it make most birds think its real and flying around

showcrop · Apr 28, 2012

I have a customer that tried all kinds of electronics, plastic owls bright balloons etc. They finally stapled chicken wire to the underside of the trusses.

RAW in · Apr 28, 2012

Several years ago we were having trouble with birds in the hangars at the airport. One plane owner in ur club said he fixed the roblem in his hangar. Ged them ground corn, soaked in anti-freeze. Said finally the birds quit coming to his hangar.

Huskers86 · Apr 28, 2012

I got a fake perched owl that I keep clean and move around the shed but the sparrows still keep coming around. I never tried hanging it.

Nancy Howell · Apr 28, 2012

Plastic snakes work very well.

donjr · Apr 28, 2012

Go down to the sporting goods store or a good fishing joint and get a large spool of fishing line, monofiliament, about 4-6 pound test. Then get a ladder out, and string it from one end of your shed to the opposite end in random fashion as many times as you can, above any machinery height, and as low below the roof line as you can whereever you can. They can't see it in flight and after a few collisions, they decide there is safer airspace somewhere else.

flying belgian · Apr 28, 2012

smear some grease on top of rafters-perlins they won't land on grease.

JMS/.MN · Apr 28, 2012

I have a 48x96 shop, half being open front machine storage. I had three of the balloons in the open part- worked fine til one was lost. Then I hung CD/DVR discs from the rafters, junkers, freebies, etc. If they are on string, they move with just a bit of wind...reflection scaring the birds away. On wires, they don"t move enough. Some put nails along the lower chord, clip off the head. Grease would be worth trying as well, plus the anti-freeze thing.

Anonymous-0 · Apr 29, 2012

(quoted from post at 21:01:19 04/28/12) I have a 48x96 shop, half being open front machine storage. I had three of the balloons in the open part- worked fine til one was lost. Then I hung CD/DVR discs from the rafters, junkers, freebies, etc. If they are on string, they move with just a bit of wind...reflection scaring the birds away. On wires, they don"t move enough. Some put nails along the lower chord, clip off the head. Grease would be worth trying as well, plus the anti-freeze thing.

The CD's work pretty well. Also do a decent job with garden pests (think better if they have light to reflect). You'll see places here with thick hog and deer populations where the discs are hung along the sides of the roads which really reduces roadkill.... Stringing fishing line around the rafters also helps (does here for pidgeons anyway).

If you have owls or little falcon/hawks (Kestrels?) in your area, set up a nest area for them and you can help yourself and nature at the same time (this idea won't be real popular with the coke & flybait clowns)...

Good luck.

Pete-IN · Apr 29, 2012

Smearing the grease on the rafters worked for me as the guy in another post stated.

Wheat Farmer · Apr 29, 2012

The rubber snakes work, and even a short length of an old grass rope. I put a short length of rope on the edge on my water tanks and that keeps them off. I have even used a black and yellow rope.

DoubleR · Apr 29, 2012

My bird problem went away after I got a few wild cats living in the buildings. I don't feed them alot either. I haven't seen any signs of mice either since they moved in.

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