Bird Control

cool hand · May 22, 2020

Anybody have an effective way to control damage by crows and blackbirds in emerging new corn?

wingnuttx · May 22, 2020

Maybe try borrowing or renting a propane gun. It'll scare them off fairly well. Just don't place it next to yours or your neighbors home.

rustred · May 22, 2020

hang a dead crow on a stick there.

dcarp · May 22, 2020

Propane canon works, but won?t make you popular with the neighbors. We have a commercial pecan grower about 3 miles away. They used the propane canon for a couple of years until increasing complaints convinced them to stop. The canon would go off, at random, every 2-5 minutes, 24-7.

Janicholson · May 22, 2020

Put up a blind and charge people (One at a time for appropriate distance) to take them out with scope equipped air rifles. Mine is a Webley& Scott. Mini Prairie dogs at home. Jim
lead free of course

and good rifles

Calvin Innes · May 23, 2020

good morning,
When I had sweet corn, I would take one dead crow and spread it on the ground, wings open, in the corn. They disliked that and would then leave the corn alone. They would be afraid to come near. I also found that taking a black plastic bag and cutting an open-winged silhouette of a crow from it and spread that out on the ground worked fine too. I made it slightly larger than normal and also gave it a large yellow eye with a paint pen. Once upon a time there was a seed coating we would put on called Crow Jinx and that worked well but I can no longer find it. It was a coal tar derivative apparently. it stunk like creosote. These tricks work well.

BHpony · May 23, 2020

run a string around it, they won't cross it.

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