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  • true grit
    DK Veteran
    • Jan 2011
    • 442

    #1

    pigeons

    They are eating all my veg seedlings, any ideas apart from netting and shooting.
  • DOUGALMCD
    V.I.P. Member
    • May 2011
    • 3229

    #2
    You could use some form of spike control as this seems most effective. I think they are about ?1.00 strip.
    Last edited by DOUGALMCD; 21 May, 2012, 10:28.

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    • true grit
      DK Veteran
      • Jan 2011
      • 442

      #3
      How do I impale the pigeons on the spikes?

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      • andy1967
        DK Veteran
        • Oct 2010
        • 1378

        #4
        Polythene tunnel covers with ends stopping them getting in, willl help with all the rain we are getting.
        Sir Alex Ferguson in 1988

        "This isn't just a job to me." "It's a mission. I am deadly serious about it. Some people would reckon too serious. We will get there, believe me. And when it happens, life will change for Liverpool and everyone else - dramatically."

        Sir Alex Ferguson. (20)

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        • cactikid
          V.I.P. Member
          • Sep 2008
          • 12017

          #5
          the trouble using spikes in the garden are an accident to happen,even bamboos need a safety top.

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          • aftermath
            V.I.P. Member
            • Mar 2008
            • 4345

            #6
            get some black bin bags,

            make flags with them by cutting long 1 - 2 inch strips leaving the last few inches so you can attach to a pole of stick, the wind will blow these around and should scare them away.

            Pigeon Fanciers use these to make the pigeons exercise and it stops them from landing and being lazy , they take the flags down when they need to get them in.

            Failing that get a stuffed cat, ive even seen stuffed owls or birds of prey, as pigeons wont go anywhere near a bird of prey , they are scarred shitless

            I used to race pigeons so i know about this , and what scares them e.t.c
            Last edited by aftermath; 21 May, 2012, 23:25. Reason: added something

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            • cactikid
              V.I.P. Member
              • Sep 2008
              • 12017

              #7
              like in your avatar ,she is a bird of prey.hehehe

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              • DOUGALMCD
                V.I.P. Member
                • May 2011
                • 3229

                #8
                Spikes are plastic if all else fails you could put them on the end of bamboo stick and throw spears at them. Here's how I did it back in nam.

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