Barns and Birds
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Topic: Barns and Birds
Posted By: boilerpete
Subject: Barns and Birds
Date Posted: 07 Nov 2016 at 10:36pm
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How do you keep the birds from pooping on your tractors? I've got a pole barn with trusses, and they sit up there out of range of the barn cats, and take aim on Persian Orange #1. Thought about poultry netting tacked to the underside, but will sparrows fit through a 1" mesh? Barn is 80'x40', trusses are 8' o.c. We've got sheep at the other end of the barn, so locking it up tight isn't a choice. Hate to have to cover the tractors up with tarps or drop clothes, but I don't like cleaning bird poop off the finished product, either. Ideas? Thanks! |
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Posted By: macec3(TX)
Date Posted: 08 Nov 2016 at 5:47am
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Get one of those plastic hawks. Do NOT get an owl. You may have to get 2 or 3 hawks for a barn that big. I had the same trouble in the shed where our cars are parked. Since the hawk has been in there no more problems with birds. |
Posted By: Trinity45
Date Posted: 08 Nov 2016 at 5:49am
| An old timer I used to work for in tobacco, would kill a couple of birds and hang them in his tobacco barns, said the other birds would not come in if there were some dead birds in the barn????? |
Posted By: CrestonM
Date Posted: 08 Nov 2016 at 8:37am
Get some of these, or make your own by driving nails through a board, then turning the board upside down and attaching to your trusses. That worked for us. They're called pigeon spikes I think.  |
Posted By: shameless (ne)
Date Posted: 08 Nov 2016 at 8:40am
| I've seen the "hot rods" placed in buildings. birds land on them and the chemical burns their feet. I can't see that working on new birds or keeping any of them away. I've seen the chicken wire and smaller wire stapled up, and that seems to work the best. but the birds can and will come in and sit on the tractors and other stuff and still poop on it, just a lot less splatter. and I've seen where they take and pound nails thru 2x4's close together, and fasten those boards to the tops of the rafters with the points up, the birds won't land on the pointed ends of the nails. I've seen plastic owls and coyotes and hawks and cats and even blow up dolls hanging in buildings. I've seen those mirrored party balls hanging up sending out moving reflections about the building. I've seen those laser lights in buildings (I've used those, and seems to work for now) use the laser lights outside too to try and scare the coons. and I've seen where they hang tarps from the ceilings, and when they pull whatever inside, they lower the tarps by a rope before leaving the building, then pull the rope back up and the tarp when they go to use what ever they had covered. and I've seen them send the kids out with .22's with bird shot in them to kills the birds. about the only things I've seen that works the best is the combo of the wire and tarp set ups. good luck! |
Posted By: Dan73
Date Posted: 08 Nov 2016 at 8:48am
| An old timer told me once that he liked to feed the birds they love rice soaked in antifreeze and for some reason they seem to stop pooping on everything after a while... just repeating what I was told haven't had cause to test it here. |
Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 08 Nov 2016 at 8:52am
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"and I've even seen blow up dolls hanging in buildings" What kind of a building is that? Yup, bought that baby to keep the birds out! Sure ya did Ain't no birds in your bedroom, is there? LOL! Darrel |
Posted By: Stan IL&TN
Date Posted: 08 Nov 2016 at 9:29am
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You'll need to divide the open side from the equipment side with netting or plastic sheeting. Any small holes can be sealed with steel wool or expanding foam. I doubt you will be happy unless you do. ------------- 1957 WD45 dad's first AC 1968 one-seventy 1956 F40 Ferguson |
Posted By: Gerald J.
Date Posted: 08 Nov 2016 at 9:56am
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There has been a commercial product of spikes pointing upward. Maybe called Bird B Gone or Bird Away. Made for the purpose of keeping birds from roosting. Simpler and sturdier than a chicken wire ceiling you can cover both faces of the trusses with chicken wire or I'd prefer 1/2" wire mesh to be smaller than the sparrows and swallows that like sheds. That can get expensive. Drywall and plywood to cover the trusses on both faces would work, just don't leave the birds a surface to land and sit on. The bird spikes might prove more practical than covering the trusses. Trusses covered with plywood would be considerably stronger than the plain trusses. Maybe a radio tuned to a talk radio station might annoy the birds enough they won't stay. And might entertain the critters in the other end of the shed. Explosive noises will probably chase the birds but annoy those critters you want to be happy. Gerald J. |
Posted By: Dave (Mid-MI)
Date Posted: 08 Nov 2016 at 3:33pm
| Saw those products with the upward spikes used in a parking ramp. They work great for bigger birds like pigeons, but small birds like sparrows actually built nests between the rows of spikes. |
Posted By: Dakota Dave
Date Posted: 08 Nov 2016 at 5:16pm
| Two cats in my barn no birds. No bird poop. |
Posted By: shameless (ne)
Date Posted: 08 Nov 2016 at 9:06pm
| weren't my building Darrell....and I didn't even ask! |
Posted By: Ted J
Date Posted: 11 Nov 2016 at 8:03pm
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Have used TWO things with good success. Put fishing line (the cheap plastic stuff) hanging down from the door frame. The birds like to come in close to the top of the open door. You fasten them 1" apart with washers on the bottom to have weight to them. Birds (and bats) hit the fishing line and won't go in after that. #2 option... works THE BEST..... Learned this from the golf course. Put a radio in it and leave it on. Doesn't matter what is on, talking or music. The birds STAY OUT. Actually happened at the course where I golf. Had ALL kinds of troubles with the swallows. Put a radio in there with music (medium volume) and they have stayed OUT now going on 5 or 6 years.....go figure. ------------- "Allis-Express" 19?? WC / 1941 C / 1952 CA / 1956 WD45 / 1957 WD45 / 1958 D-17 |
Posted By: shameless (ne)
Date Posted: 11 Nov 2016 at 8:55pm
| and WHEN do you have time to go play golf? |