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Tim Shultz

02-02-2007 13:40:32




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ok, I have found ways to keep the rats and mice down around the farm, but what about the winged rats? I have tried shooting them for the last three years and have bagged and tagged over 500 of the little buggers now, but with a cargill elivator just down the road and can"t get rid of them for good.. anybody know of a somthing that I can use to poison them? I tried anti-freeze and cracked corn but they won"t eat it.. any ideas? thanks, Tim

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Dean Barker

02-02-2007 21:42:49




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 Re: OT sparrows in reply to Tim Shultz, 02-02-2007 13:40:32  
I just start up an older diesel in my machine sheds and let it run for about 20 minutes every 6 months. The sparrows won't stay in for more than a few minutes. My 1655's and 4320's work, but anything newer burns too clean. Hope this works for you.



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johndeere plowboy

02-02-2007 19:36:42




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 Re: OT sparrows in reply to Tim Shultz, 02-02-2007 13:40:32  
I hung owl decoys at each end of my barn. I had a pigeon problem. It worked and the pigeons stayed away. It might work on sparrows.



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johndeere plowboy

02-02-2007 19:36:24




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 Re: OT sparrows in reply to Tim Shultz, 02-02-2007 13:40:32  
I hung owl decoys at each end of my barn. I had a pigeon problem. It worked and the pigeons stayed away. It might work on sparrows.



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Kestrel in CT

02-02-2007 17:02:05




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 Re: OT sparrows in reply to Tim Shultz, 02-02-2007 13:40:32  
It may not be feasible in your situation but numerous long runs of monofilament line spaced several inches apart over whatever your'e trying to protect might keep them from navigating around and landing. Birds like uncluttered air space.

Large swimming pools in Florida have grid arrangements like this to keep ducks from landing and fouling the water. They are rigged high enough that they can't even be seen.

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Aaron Ford

02-02-2007 16:22:47




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 Re: OT sparrows in reply to Tim Shultz, 02-02-2007 13:40:32  
I knew a guy that had cat's that refused to touch the ground. They stayed in the rafters all day. Fed 'em up there too. They kept the bird population at bay. Not sure if it was a breed, but they did not have tails.

Let's go Mountaineers,

Aaron



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John S-B

02-02-2007 16:19:17




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 Re: OT sparrows in reply to Tim Shultz, 02-02-2007 13:40:32  
Tim, you can try owl decoys and rubber snakes, that would be fairly cheap to start. There also strips with little spikes designed for pidgeons.



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northeast puller 1

02-02-2007 15:47:54




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 Re: OT sparrows in reply to Tim Shultz, 02-02-2007 13:40:32  
mike a. tenn If you take and fill the 3/8th hole with silicone they buzz like a Ba@#$$#@# and the word gets out. And fixes your hole at the same time for waiter damage. It is not the sole answer to your problem but it helps.

North East puller.



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mike a. tenn.

02-02-2007 15:55:13




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 Re: OT sparrows in reply to northeast puller 1, 02-02-2007 15:47:54  
NEP...i don't think you have any idea how many of the rotten little buggers i have every year. i'd go thru five tubes of silicone! no kiddin'...it's like a swarm around my barn every summer.

i had one guy tell me to spray my loft down with kerosene. i asked him why i didn't just save the kerosene cost and put a match to it. (a hay loft full of dry hay and straw...sprayed with kerosene...i swear...the way some people think...or not)

-mike

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old

02-02-2007 15:04:29




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 Re: OT sparrows in reply to Tim Shultz, 02-02-2007 13:40:32  
years ago you could buy a trap that was made just for them and it did work well. Its a live trap and my grand father had it set all the time and he did catch a good number of them. Funny thing is once you got one you would keep getting them because they seemed to call in the others. It looked like a big cage about 3 foot square and had a little tip thing inside that would drop them down into the cage.

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dds-inc

02-02-2007 14:50:48




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 Re: OT sparrows in reply to Tim Shultz, 02-02-2007 13:40:32  
Mr. Shultz, I do sympathize with you on the sparrows being all over your barns and equipment and corn. Over here in Maryland, sparrows fly in MASSIVE, MASSIVE bands. You can hear the wings of hundreds of thousands of them as they leave the cornfields. I always go in the barn when they fly over my place, because the droppings are similar to kamakaze pilots.

One thing you can do to keep the MULTITUDES off of your property is to shoot a 12 gauge at them. whoo dammm..... what a black cloud they form up in the sky!!!!!

As for keeping sparrows INDIVIDUALLY off of your property, I haven't the faintest clue other than to limit the number of possible nesting areas. (damm hard to do)

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mike a. tenn.

02-02-2007 13:43:04




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 Re: OT sparrows in reply to Tim Shultz, 02-02-2007 13:40:32  
oh man tim...are you ever askin' for it!



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Tim Shultz

02-02-2007 13:56:50




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 Re: OT sparrows in reply to mike a. tenn., 02-02-2007 13:43:04  
and whys that? I wouldn't mind them at all, but for them taking a dump all over my hay, the feed.. and just EVERYTHING.. I don't think there is a animal out there that makes a mess like them sparrows do.. Tim



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mike a. tenn.

02-02-2007 14:07:19




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 Re: OT sparrows in reply to Tim Shultz, 02-02-2007 13:56:50  
well tim...."I" really don't care one way or the other but i'm afraid you might be askin' for a little static from folks like my wife who put out about ten feeders for the birds every winter. and then there's the anti-freeze soaked corn. not much slower death than a critter with crystalizing kidneys...had a cat that got into the stuff one time...it was pretty bad. and you don't know what else might eat that stuff. hope you don't have any dogs you like.

don't get me wrong...i'm not hollarin' atcha...just figured you might be settin' yourself up for some greif that's all.

-mike

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Tim Shultz

02-02-2007 14:09:31




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 Re: OT sparrows in reply to mike a. tenn., 02-02-2007 14:07:19  
well, they didn;t eat the corn anyhow, and I put it up in the loft of the barn where only they could get it.. Tim



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mike a. tenn.

02-02-2007 14:34:50




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 Re: OT sparrows in reply to Tim Shultz, 02-02-2007 14:09:31  
i do sympathize with ya about the mess the little buggers can make. i wonder if those owl decoys you can get would work? my biggest critter problem is what we call wood bees or carpenter bees down here in the south. the doggone things drill perfect 3/8ths holes in any exposed wood, like my barn rafters. sooner or later they're gonna give. i wish i could find something that would get 'em outta my barn. i've swatted over 600 of 'em in one summer with my wife's old tennis racket, and they still come back every year. you got sparrows, i have bees. i guess if that's the worst that ever befalls us we'll do ok tho.

-mike

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ironsales

02-02-2007 14:07:05




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 Re: OT sparrows in reply to Tim Shultz, 02-02-2007 13:56:50  
try alkaseltzer, and a water tube, it works at the coast i have heard



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4010guy

02-02-2007 14:31:04




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 whos birds are they? in reply to ironsales, 02-02-2007 14:07:05  
LOL That reminds me of a few years back when the local imp. dealer was complaining to the elevator manger about the elevator sparrows were crapping all over his equipment and the elevator manager said what the heck do you mean MY sparrow's. I thot them dang birds belonged to the impliment. Implement guy say hell no there not mine----WELL the elevator proceeds to explain to the implement dealer that you almost always crap in your own house, DONT YA

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