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[RETIC80 11]

Aye, they would probably keep the bops away, but cant imagine having radios and bangers in the pens would be that good for the poults staying in???

 

They get used to it mate, obviously you wouldn't use them until the poults are settled for a good few days, and only once you start getting hammered by a gos, then use the banger. As you know, once they start, they can cause a serious headache pretty quick, i would prefer jumpy birds than dead birds i can tell you.

[Lab 10,979]

I think one of the big problems with the Buzzards apart from there killing everyday is when they fly through the pens and disturb young poults. They never get a minutes peace with the f*****g things. You can always tell when you are walking to your pen if theres something up, all the birds are hiding and sure enough you'll find a kill somewhere. Either that they scare them out the pen and the b*****d fox xomes along and gets them............

CD's, scarecrows, bags you can do the lot. It may make them wary for a few hours but they soon get used too them. You can try feeding them too with pigeons and rabbits but the young birds just want to kill..............easy pickings!!!

Said it before but a cull period is needed.......ffs its not like there in small numbers....

[RETIC80 11]

I think one of the big problems with the Buzzards apart from there killing everyday is when they fly through the pens and disturb young poults. They never get a minutes peace with the f*****g things. You can always tell when you are walking to your pen if theres something up, all the birds are hiding and sure enough you'll find a kill somewhere. Either that they scare them out the pen and the b*****d fox xomes along and gets them............

CD's, scarecrows, bags you can do the lot. It may make them wary for a few hours but they soon get used too them. You can try feeding them too with pigeons and rabbits but the young birds just want to kill..............easy pickings!!!

Said it before but a cull period is needed.......ffs its not like there in small numbers....

 

True mate, .

[Ideation 8,216]

Aye, as lab says, eventually they wise up to it all.

 

Killbilly - i say it is gos and buzzards mate, cos we can sit and watch them doing it, bloody things! We do have a few charlie around the estate, and those that cross in, but the kills are inside the pens, and like i said, you can see the buggers doing it.

[gonetoearth 5,144]

allways piss around release pens at every oppotunity charlie has a distinct adversion to human piss never get used to it

[mikeliverpool 0]

you could try makeing more cover for them

[Rake aboot 4,929]

Just pay all the wee neds fi yer school to run aboot waivin flags, A glue bag apeice per day.

 

 

There is a facility for Govt (SNH??) to issue a licence to control BOP, but none have ever been issued,, to scared of the RSPB.

 

I now see more buzzards than crow some days

["Earth!" 503]

allways piss around release pens at every oppotunity charlie has a distinct adversion to human piss never get used to it

Ever pissed on the electric fencing? i did and before first light , i crowed like a fecking cockeral

[Born Hunter 17,622]

We net over what pens we can. It obviously isn't practical for some and doesn't help the poults outside the pen but it does seem to work. As proven by the fact that we have had to release the odd buzzard that has gotten it's self tangled in the net. The biggest problem is, as lab says, the constant stress the birds are under from the buzzards just hunting the pen sites.

 

I'm gona see if leaving rabbits/pigeons/squirrels etc about has any effect in keeping them away this year, but i somehow doubt it.

 

Oh well, time to crack on with the vermin we are aloud to kill.

[paulus 26]

We net over what pens we can. It obviously isn't practical for some and doesn't help the poults outside the pen but it does seem to work. As proven by the fact that we have had to release the odd buzzard that has gotten it's self tangled in the net. The biggest problem is, as lab says, the constant stress the birds are under from the buzzards just hunting the pen sites.

 

I'm gona see if leaving rabbits/pigeons/squirrels etc about has any effect in keeping them away this year, but i somehow doubt it.

 

Oh well, time to crack on with the vermin we are aloud to kill.

make a feeding station. you never know charlie might start to use it awsell

[paulus 26]

allways piss around release pens at every oppotunity charlie has a distinct adversion to human piss never get used to it

Ever pissed on the electric fencing? i did and before first light , i crowed like a fecking cockeral

i was ferreting in a horse paddock, the owner had put an electric fence around a warren in the middle of the field i lay down to put a purse net over a hole,forgot about the fence and got a jolt right on the top of my head

[The Duncan 802]

re-load shotgun carts with rice and give em a dose

[The Duncan 802]

allways piss around release pens at every oppotunity charlie has a distinct adversion to human piss never get used to it

only works with male piss - there's a smell of testosterone which they fear. Male dog piss works too.

[2434me 13]

This year I will be trying something new for me.

I was loosing poults from the buzzards flying down the inside of the wire and taking birds against the wire.

This year I will be taking some stock fencing ,and putting one bit above the other to make a six foot wall every twenty feet or so.

It should allow the poults to run through but stop anything flying down the length of the pen.I plan on doing it on the feed ride as well ,but stagger it like a cycle gate so I can walk through when feeding.

It may work ,It may not ? But at least it will feel as if I am doing something!