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| How do y’all keep birds out of your indoor arenas and barn? They have gotten out of control since it’s started getting colder. Poison, traps, what works? Thanks! |
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| When we had our indoor we had a big problem with pigeons of all things. Fortunately for us an owl moved in. Maybe you could try one of those fake owls to scare the birds off.? |
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| want2chase3 - 2018-11-24 3:52 AM
When we had our indoor we had a big problem with pigeons of all things. Fortunately for us an owl moved in. Maybe you could try one of those fake owls to scare the birds off.?
I have one of those owls, the birds sit next to it! Lol! I think maybe our barn cats help a little. |
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Warrior Mom
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| Griz - 2018-11-24 7:37 AM
want2chase3 - 2018-11-24 3:52 AM
When we had our indoor we had a big problem with pigeons of all things. Fortunately for us an owl moved in. Maybe you could try one of those fake owls to scare the birds off.?
I have one of those owls, the birds sit next to it! Lol! I think maybe our barn cats help a little.
That's too funny! We didn't bother the owl, only thing I didn't like was finding the carcasses of whatever he ate from the night before. |
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Location: Carpenter, WY | a whole herd of cats :) The cats can climb our haystack in the barn and go from rafter to rafter and eventually the birds disappeared. I'd be happy to loan a dozen or so to you!
Edited by teehaha 2018-11-24 4:12 PM
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| Thanks y’all! We currently have no cats, that would be an easy fix if y’all think it would really help! |
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| Cats are definitely the answer. I have to have 4 or 5 cats to keep the birds out of my barn or the pigeons and crows absolutely take over. Of course, their great great mousers too! |
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Location: Do I hear Banjos? | Yep...cats are the answer. I find the females make the better mousers/bird killers. We have 4 barn cats and zero mouse or bird or any other vermin in our barn/feed room. In-Laws up the road have zero cats and have terrible mouse/rat issues and pigeons in the barn/covered arena. They didn't drive their truck for 3 days and found a huge field rat nest under the hood. |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | TrailGirl - 2018-11-26 8:54 AM Yep...cats are the answer. I find the females make the better mousers/bird killers. We have 4 barn cats and zero mouse or bird or any other vermin in our barn/feed room. In-Laws up the road have zero cats and have terrible mouse/rat issues and pigeons in the barn/covered arena. They didn't drive their truck for 3 days and found a huge field rat nest under the hood.
The rats and mice are really hard on a car or truck that gets parked in a barn, they love to chew up all the wiring and insulation, and love building their homes in a truck/car so I'm guessing they like a moble home as in a car/truck  |
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Location: Idaho | I have heard about relocating a bird of prey to your barn/indoor arena in Oklahoma, but I don't know if that is a thing. Good hunting place for them and they care of the birds. |
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Location: Do I hear Banjos? | DashNDustem - 2018-11-26 1:33 PM
I have heard about relocating a bird of prey to your barn/indoor arena in Oklahoma, but I don't know if that is a thing. Good hunting place for them and they care of the birds.
All hawks and owls are federally protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (16 USC, 703-711). These laws strictly prohibit the capture, killing, or possession of hawks or owls without special permit.
So I hope no one is actually capturing and relocating them. |
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Location: Freestone TX | The steel rafters in my barn are too high for the cats to reach and nothing but steel support posts so can't climb either. My trailers and vehicles were being covered in bird poo constantly. I got one of those electronic squawk boxes and shreiks out a predator's cry and it got the birds to go away. The only down side is that you hear it when you're at the barn too. |
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| I have worked in pest control for a long time now... here are some options for you:
1. Bird of prey audio.
2. Bird netting/Spikes.
3. Misting systems.
Poison is a method I wouldn’t particuallarly recommend. |
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| Here's a couple of options:
1) If there are pigeons, contact a local waterfowl dog breeder/trainer that wants to come and try to trap them to use for training their dogs.
2) I had an old farmer from OK that told me he hangs old CDs/DVDs on fishing line (from the rafters) and because they are shiny and move a lot they constantly disturb the birds so they move out.
3) If they are nesting, do something to knock the nests down frequently so they don't want to stay.
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| Thank you everyone! |
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Location: mi | I have cats.... they help but they are not able to get all the way up in the rafters of my arena. So when the pigeons came... and stayed..... I had to just decide to close the barn up for awhile. We chased them out closed the doors and hubby got up and cleaned out all of their nests. Kept the barn closed up most of the time for awhile. Then I purchased yards and yards of netting and hung it up over my door openings and opened the barn back up. It kept ALL of the bird population down this spring and summer. I love it. we pulled them for the winter as now the pigeons have been gone for good for at least 8 months so my guess is they are in someone elses barn now. :). the netting will go back up again next spring at the first sign of the black bird arrival. It was well worth the roughly $100 a door opening!
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Location: Winging It in KY | We have the BirdXPeller. It works pretty good for us. You get used to the noise it makes and eventually don't even pay attention to it anymore.
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