Fecking crows.

[FD3Si]

Anyone got any handy tips regarding keeping the winged harbingers of doom away? That doesn't involve firearms?

We're currently spending a substantial amount of money feeding them, and our chickens seem to spend their days cowering in the corners of the run.
The food hopper is in an 'inner run', with a roof, and an entrance hole just big enough for the chickens to get in, yet the little whatnots still rob it all.

The best suggestion I've found so far involved hanging up a dead crow's carcass, but tbh, that's not really my thing.

[-crookedtail-]

You'll need one of these bad boys, a scare owl with a rotating head!!

[civicduty]

How's your DIY Skills?

I know a farmer who caught 60 crows in 24 hours with one of these.

[Wheat]

Hanging a dead grow up was the best solution I tried. It makes your garden look like something off the Adams family but it really works. Having a big fake owl will maybe work until a brave one gets used to it, dive bombs it and realises it's not real. Like wise a scarecrow or a banger.

[anonymous-user]

Wheat said:

Hanging a dead grow up was the best solution I tried. It makes your garden look like something off the Adams family but it really works. Having a big fake owl will maybe work until a brave one gets used to it, dive bombs it and realises it's not real. Like wise a scarecrow or a banger.

It's true... And it's also what farmers round here do.

Can you borrow a decent air rifle off someone?

[AdiT]

I read the title as "Fecking Cows" and then was confused by "...winged harbingers of doom"

[haggishunter]

I've built a ladder trap in the past, they're bloody effective!

[basherX]

We bought one of these : http://grandpasfeeders.co.uk/products?gclid=CMHk0o...

Expensive but paid for itself in a couple of months given the food we were shovelling into the local crows, rats etc.

It just works. Once you remove the food source the crows soon clear off elsewhere.

So good, in fact, that we bought a second one a couple of weeks ago for our second run.

[fttm]

AdiT said:

I read the title as "Fecking Cows" and then was confused by "...winged harbingers of doom"

Not just me then . Answer to the OP , yes nail one to the fence .

[Hooli]

fttm said:

AdiT said:

I read the title as "Fecking Cows" and then was confused by "...winged harbingers of doom"

Not just me then . Answer to the OP , yes nail one to the fence .

I read it as crows but was expecting the first reply to be along the lines of 'wrap it in duct tape so it doesn't burst'.

[Roo]

I'm surprised that their intelligent enough to work that out.

Two crows round here keep throwing themselves at my office windows and attacking their own reflections in our shiney black alarm posts.

[plasticpig]

-crookedtail- said:

You'll need one of these bad boys, a scare owl with a rotating head!!

Doubt that will work. Crows mob owls