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DAMM STARLINGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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TIMAR

02-14-2007 09:28:04




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Anyone else have problems with these damm birds? They are eating half of the grain away from my livstock. Purina is out of Starlicide til the 23rd. Will they drink water with antifreeze in it? Thinking about putting a heated waterer ouside the fence just for the birds an put some kind of poison it in. Dogs and cats not an issue.




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Mark

02-15-2007 14:33:22




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 Re: DAMM STARLINGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! in reply to TIMAR, 02-14-2007 09:28:04  
Oh this is a topic for my hotlist!

I hate starlings with a burning passion. I have gunned them all winter. If it weren't for the songbirds getting to it.....I'd feed the starlings rat poison.

If the pipe trick will work....I'll buy a 100 ft of it and have it up all over the place....HAR!



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Rod in Smiths Falls, ON,

02-15-2007 04:30:23




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 Re: DAMM STARLINGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! in reply to TIMAR, 02-14-2007 09:28:04  
One time after a heavy snowfall in late March I put out a large piece of beef tallow, then waited in the garage until I couldn't see fat for birds. One round of shot set the starling population back by 54. That took care of them for the year.



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oldfarmtractor

02-15-2007 04:18:39




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 Re: DAMM STARLINGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! in reply to TIMAR, 02-14-2007 09:28:04  
Starlings = Blackbirds..

And the rhyme goes...

4 and 20 blackbirds baked in a pie.

Dinner Time!



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RAW in IA

02-14-2007 16:54:53




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 Re: DAMM STARLINGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! in reply to TIMAR, 02-14-2007 09:28:04  
If they won't , soak some cracked cornin antifreeze and put it somewheres where nothing else canget to it.



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Dh in Carolina

02-14-2007 16:37:08




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 Re: DAMM STARLINGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! in reply to TIMAR, 02-14-2007 09:28:04  
I remember back in the 60's we had several deep snows. The starlings would get in the chicken house and eat the chicken feed. My two brothers and I aged 9 to 14 would open both doors of the chicken house and bait with some feed. The starlings would fill the chicken house buy the hundreds. We would sneak and close the doors and get our bb guns. We would get in there with them and shoot till none moved. Next we would take a wash tub and carry them out. Than repeat the process. When the snow melted there was piles of dead birds everywhere. But we had a good time.DH

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Willie Holder

02-14-2007 10:03:58




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 Re: DAMM STARLINGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! in reply to TIMAR, 02-14-2007 09:28:04  
I've got a picture If I can find it, of a trap for them. We went to an older genntleman's place to buy a tractor from him. He had Martin boxes everywhere, and had fixed a trap for starlings.He took some p.v.c pipe, probably 3in. and fastend to the side of his barn.The pipe was probably 8 ft. long running up and down on the wall.he put an elbow at the top facing straight out from the barn, and painted the inside of the elbow black.He had the bottom of the pipe sticking up off the ground about a foot.he had taken a five gal bucket and cut a hole in the center of the bottom to fit around the pipe.I guess he had the bucket there when he mounted the pipe.All he had to do was every few days slide up the bucket which is upside down on the ground and there are the dead starlings. He said that you had to paint the elbow black so the thought it was a hole leading back into a dark place.he said he never had any other birds get into it either.

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jeffcat

02-15-2007 11:24:38




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 Re: DAMM STARLINGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! in reply to Willie Holder, 02-14-2007 10:03:58  
PLEASE see if you can find that picture. Sounds very interesting! Thanks Jeffcat



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dboll

02-14-2007 09:50:30




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 Re: DAMM STARLINGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! in reply to TIMAR, 02-14-2007 09:28:04  
I have shot those nasty things and a cat won't even eat them! what is starlicide? boxelder trees are magnets for them, we wouldn't have them if some moron wouldn't have brought them from Europe and released them in NYC, he wanted to bring over each specie from some Shakesphere play living here, what an idiot! Sparrows were brought to eat horse crap off the city streets another stroke of genious!! have a good day!

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