So you think you've got wildlife damage?

rrlund · Jun 21, 2014

I walked back and took a picture about where the damage tapered off from the native geese in the first picture. The rest show how they eat it off,then start back across the field taking the leaves off until growth gets ahead of'em. They've taken at least two acres from a 17 acre field that is too far gone to ever come back.
Not a thing in the world I can do about it.

rrlund · Jun 21, 2014

Here are the culprits.

jennifer408 · Jun 21, 2014

that's bad, sorry to hear and see.

Greg1959 · Jun 21, 2014

rrlund- Wouldn't a 'crop damage' permit allow you to shoot them?

Greg

Anonymous-0 · Jun 21, 2014

They used to use carbide cannons set to go off at different times to scare them away. Worked for preventing damage to corn fields by blackbirds also.Have goose damage to corn and soybeans here too.

The Dukester · Jun 21, 2014

Are they any good frozen after you've shot and cleaned them? I remember as a boy my grandpa talking about "having a fat goose for Christmas Dinner" when he was a boy in the middle 1880's.

rrlund · Jun 21, 2014

Those things are the wild hogs of the north. You could never get rid of all of them. They just keep coming back. I saw a van in town at the lake just the other day,said something about Goose depopulators or some such thing. The village must have hired them or something. All I could do is laugh.

rrlund · Jun 21, 2014

There's a long season on them in the fall. Guys hunt the living heck out of them around here. Most take their daily limit on my places,but they can't even begin to get ahead of them.

Fergienewbee · Jun 21, 2014

SSS--Shoot, shovel, shut up.

Larry

Ron Anderson · Jun 21, 2014

I was going to suggest that coyotes might help but we got coyotes and geese both doesn't seem to effect the geese. A mother goose is pretty protective of her young

muduc · Jun 21, 2014

shoot....shovel...& shut up....wise man once told me.

teddy52food · Jun 21, 2014

I think corn that small will grow back if they leave it alone.

rrlund · Jun 21, 2014

That's the trouble,they won't leave it alone.

rrlund · Jun 21, 2014

They'd probably see the backhoe running. No way I'd want to dig a big enough hole by hand for all those things.

RusselAZ · Jun 21, 2014

Wow,those birds could feed a lot of homeless people. 22 shorts come to mind. Claymores do to. Ahh heck, just shoot a bunch of propane down in that low spot and set it off. If nothing else they wouldn"t fly for awhile.

Been working on my local cottontails and Jack rabbits. Use a .177 pellet rifle. There were two Jacks up on the ridge behind my house last night and I though they were coyotes until the lead on raised his ears. Ears much be a foot long.

uncle henry · Jun 21, 2014

i saw one time where a airport used a border collie to keep the geese off the runway may work for you

Rich_WI · Jun 21, 2014

(quoted from post at 15:30:41 06/21/14) They've taken at least two acres from a 17 acre field that is too far gone to ever come back.
Not a thing in the world I can do about it.

Get a dog. My neighbors Border collie would love to run around your field and chase the geese.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/02/s...ith-golf-course-etiquette.html?pagewanted=all

rrlund · Jun 21, 2014

Trouble is,that field's out behind my aunt's house. There are about a half dozen houses out along the road,a main state highway less than a mile from town. I don't think a dog would last 5 minutes before it was road kill.

I can't figure it out though,I have another place just on the west side of town. There are 4 pair nesting there and running on the edge of the lawns. There must be 20-25 little ones running with them. They've taken one headland off out there but haven't gone out in the field like they have in this one.

gtractorfan · Jun 21, 2014

Those ducks won't even wait for free corn-- kernels.

Don S. · Jun 21, 2014

Too bad about your lost corn from what some call "skycarp." A local private lake surrounded by homes, had hundreds of them on the lake and in yards, someone got a fake swan, placed it on the lake..no more geese. Would have to move it around some, but might be worth a look-see. Good Luck.

David G · Jun 21, 2014

My border collie just loves to keep the birds and geese chased off.

Russ from MN · Jun 21, 2014

Shoot one and hang it from a post in the field! Maybe filet the breast meat off first, tastes like chicken!

jeffcat · Jun 21, 2014

FOR NEXT SPRING. If you go out with a couple of friends to ward off the suckers. Take a pair of cloth gloves and soak in mineral oil. At the nest wipe the eggs with the gloves on your hands. The eggs will not hatch. Geese will not lay new egss. If you smash the eggs they will lay new ones.

ohiojim · Jun 22, 2014

I don't think there's such a thing as control permits on a federally protected species, geese and wild turkeys fall into that category

Northvale - PA · Jun 22, 2014

on Maryland Eastern shore, guys are putting out plywood decoy cut outs of bald eagles. The eagle population here is really taking off. Maybe it works.

Moline_guy · Jun 22, 2014

We use Avipel on our corn seed so pheasants don't eat it, it works very well when used correctly. We have used it for several years now.

rrlund · Jun 22, 2014

I use it too. Works excellent for turkeys,sand hill cranes and any other birds that eat the seed. These dammed geese don't go for the seeds though. They wait for it to come up and keep the plant eaten off without ever touching the seed. Avipel's effects don't work up through the plant.

Rich_WI · Jun 22, 2014

(quoted from post at 19:09:30 06/21/14) Trouble is,that field's out behind my aunt's house. There are about a half dozen houses out along the road,a main state highway less than a mile from town. I don't think a dog would last 5 minutes before it was road kill.

You dont have to keep the dog on 24/7 patrol, take the dog out there with you, turn it loose and then take it back home. No road killed dog that way and the geese will [b:9e410c3411][i:9e410c3411]not[/i:9e410c3411][/b:9e410c3411] stay if they are rousted once or twice a day. They will move on to easier living, likely a neighbor or maybe a little farther.

bison · Jun 22, 2014

2 acre out of 17 ain't that bad.
One fall day a couple years ago i cut down a 50 acre barley field
There musta been 10.000 geese in that field the next morning when i went back to get the swather .:shock:
Was nothing left to combine.

I had no crop insurance either.

JohnDY · Jun 22, 2014

A friend of mine used to live next to a pond that was full of geese. The neighbor went and got donations from the people living around the pond and then went and bought a big rubber alligator head that was remote controlled. About 3 days of the gator opening up his mouth and making whatever noise they make and there weren't no more geese that summer. Don't know how it would work in a field.

So you think you've got wildlife damage?

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