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Starlings How to stop them

#1 User is offline   Great White Hunter 

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Posted 24 July 2009 - 09:13 AM

Any body have ideas about how to stop starlings eating my chicken feed .
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Posted 24 July 2009 - 09:50 AM

They can be shot with an air rifle in ireland according to BASC or if its only a small pen you could cover the top with garden netting.

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Posted 24 July 2009 - 10:02 AM

Two old CDs , glue them together shiny side out. Hang them up , good bird deterrent.
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Posted 24 July 2009 - 10:37 AM

air rifle
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Posted 24 July 2009 - 12:01 PM

Have shot about 16 off them at the minute they just keep coming back with there friends . I have used a bag of layers pellets in 4 days and i have only got 7 chickens . Cant keep watch much through the day as i have to work . A man told me to use a hawk decoy but the starlings are sitting on the pole that the hawk is fixed too £30.00 down the drain .

would stringing up a few dead ones be off any use like a gamekeepers giblit line
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Posted 24 July 2009 - 02:23 PM

Jack boy know what you mean but it hard to know how much to give them the starlings are there from morning right through the day . they eat even if a chicken is eating at the feeder


gonna try the CD idea and a few starlings hanging from a rope
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Posted 26 July 2009 - 04:39 AM

really dont think there is much u can do just feed them twice a day a be there why they eat atb
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Posted 26 July 2009 - 05:21 AM

cheaper to get shot of hens and buy a few organic eggs.

airgun and persistence they WILL get the message
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Posted 26 July 2009 - 09:11 AM

Build a small ladder trap and bait it up, that should cure them. ;)
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Posted 29 July 2009 - 10:01 PM

FECK ME THERES SOME HEADS OF KNOWLEDGE ON THIS SITE :blink:

LISTEN MATE ,........... GET YOURSELF A PHEASENT FEEDER FILL IT UP THE BIRDS WILL PECK AT THE TOGGLE OR SPIRAL AND EAT WHAT THEY WANT , THE FOODS UP OFF THE GROUND AND LITTLE IS WASTED OR SPOILED

ALL THE BEST


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Posted 30 July 2009 - 07:37 AM

View PostDUCKWING, on Jul 29 2009, 11:01 PM, said:

FECK ME THERES SOME HEADS OF KNOWLEDGE ON THIS SITE :blink:

LISTEN MATE ,........... GET YOURSELF A PHEASENT FEEDER FILL IT UP THE BIRDS WILL PECK AT THE TOGGLE OR SPIRAL AND EAT WHAT THEY WANT , THE FOODS UP OFF THE GROUND AND LITTLE IS WASTED OR SPOILED

ALL THE BEST


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Posted 11 August 2009 - 07:53 AM

View PostDUCKWING, on Jul 29 2009, 11:01 PM, said:

FECK ME THERES SOME HEADS OF KNOWLEDGE ON THIS SITE :blink:
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LISTEN MATE ,........... GET YOURSELF A PHEASENT FEEDER FILL IT UP THE BIRDS WILL PECK AT THE TOGGLE OR SPIRAL AND EAT WHAT THEY WANT , THE FOODS UP OFF THE GROUND AND LITTLE IS WASTED OR SPOILED

ALL THE BEST


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I agree use a spring feeder, no point having an open food sorce for all vermin. Although rats will still get to food at night unless you remember to cover spring, I use an old tin and tie it on at night.

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