The Poultry Keeper

jaydee67 · Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2006 11:36 am Post subject:

We use a rubber car mat with strips cut into it across the pop hole to stop birds coming in to steal the hens' food - maybe that would help?

Clucky · Joined: 22 Jul 2006 Posts: 2187 Location: Shropshire

Just to add just a little to this....If anyone is considering culling grey squirrels....they have one nasty habit......

If you kill say 5, next year or year after they would have compensated and you will have 15.....nature at its worst. Twisted Evil

My OH is a Conservation and Eco Systems Manager and one of his last jobs was maintaining ancient woodlands and parkland.....squirrels were on the menu on a regular basis, culling too, but never enough to stop the damage to the trees etc.

sasha.p · Joined: 04 Sep 2005 Posts: 499 Location: gwent

there is another way i have used it myself as we used to frequentley get two squirrel visitors we hung a feeder up metal with peanuts in this meant the squirrels left our other things alone and only came for the feeders then god knowswhere they went westopped feeding them and they never came back,are you sure its squirrels eating the eggs and not rats?other than supplying an alternative foodsource to deter them the only other thing would be to trap and remove them Smile

Hen-Gen · Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 9:14 pm Post subject:

I look forward to the day that there is a concerted national effort to eradicate this destructive alien invader. Whilst I will desist from making snidey remarks about our trans-Atlantic friends when it comes to the grey squirrel, the mink and the American crayfish it really is a case of 'Yanks go home!'.

glyn7499 · Joined: 09 Aug 2006 Posts: 24 Location: notts

i have just had to deal (albeit reluctantly) with a squirrel with an air rifle, over the last week it managed to gnaw a hole above the door in the woodwork, get in and damage the plastic top from a feeder, it took a few days to work out it was a squirrel, but he then didn't stop coming.. i though this was the most effective / humane method of resolving the problem. Sad

ZacB · Joined: 25 Jul 2006 Posts: 58 Location: Suffolk

I used to think the little chaps quite cute until they ate through roof felt & set up home. Opinion now is rats with fluffy tails & deserve to be treated in the same manner, ie; shot. Don't feel to bad about this.