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Hello 

i have some Oxford Game birds that have gone wild

They are emptying themselves on a neighbour’s path so I need to contain them.

i caught some by cornering them and using a fishing net but the remaining ones are too wise now 

I have a Larsen trap but I am only getting Jackdaws with that.

what other methods can I use before I just shoot them

 

thank you

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Thank you for all the replies.

I couldn’t get them from their roosting tree as they go too high up

What I did do was to make a small holding pen from pallets and some doors. Then by some miracle, I caught a couple when they wandered into the duck run.

Curiousity was the downfall of the remaining birds as they went to see their captive friends and I got them with the fishing net.

They are now all together in a proper house

 

 

 

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Ive seen birds survive and thrive for over a year without being fed, just left to roam wherever they want and find all there own food,,no matter how far they went theyd still come back to the barn and roost in the rafters, some of the most picturesque birds to look at as well, never seem to do as well as when left to there own devices

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3 hours ago, gamerooster said:

Ive seen birds survive and thrive for over a year without being fed, just left to roam wherever they want and find all there own food,,no matter how far they went theyd still come back to the barn and roost in the rafters, some of the most picturesque birds to look at as well, never seem to do as well as when left to there own devices

Survival of the fittest ?

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