Poultry Talk Ontario (pto.ca)

The evil poo machines have returned! All fall I have been waiting for a chance to take a shot at those mite infested, disease carrying, feather dropping, goo splattering flying parasites called pigeons! Now they have returned, the trouble is that it has been so cold, I am not up to sitting around in freezing weather waiting on them, plus my fingers wouldn't be able to pull the trigger. They come in the evening to roost and then crap down all night on the door and also making me have to walk through their manure. Today is much, much warmer.... do you think they showed up today, not a chance!

Bait them with cracked corn and then hunt them from a comfortable location.

Shirley’s (aka Bayvista Farm) son is awesome with a net!
I’ve never seen anyone so quick
You’d have to ask Shirley. But I think he caught 60-70 pigeons in about an hour and a half!
I ran the light and opened cages. Lol

Colleen Kinzie wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 04, 2018 10:46 am

Shirley’s (aka Bayvista Farm) son is awesome with a net!
I’ve never seen anyone so quick
You’d have to ask Shirley. But I think he caught 60-70 pigeons in about an hour and a half!
I ran the light and opened cages. Lol

How long is the net handle lol. They can't get into the barn, they sit on a track outside that runs a hay fork, (anyone know what that is) the track sits above my barn door. The barn walls are in 8 foot sections, there are four and a half of these sections before you reach the pigeons, so my only chance is the pellet gun.

JP* wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 04, 2018 9:56 am

Bait them with cracked corn and then hunt them from a comfortable location.

Tried that already, they won't come to it, they spend the day at the pasture pork farm, he feeds the pigs out in the fields, perfect for pigeons to land safely and eat all day out in the open where they can see danger coming. Little

I know what you are talking about (track for hay fork). My barn had one and pigeons used to sit there too. The barn is gone and there is nowhere else they sit on my property except the driveway. There is a flock of about 30 that live on the grain bins behind my place.