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Livestock => Cattle => Topic started by: Whitehills on September 20, 2016, 03:28:10 pm

Title: Crow problem
Post by: Whitehills on September 20, 2016, 03:28:10 pm
Hello,

Looking for a bit of advice please. I've a really big problem with crows fowling in the livestocks water. Has anyone managed to overcome this with a clever solution? We've sheep and a couple of small Shetland cows and I can't think of a way that they could access the water but the crows not.

Am I right in thinking that you can shoot crows in Scotland and if so has anyone found tying dead ones to the fence to be effective in warding off others?

I'm currently lugging water around to them all in a water hog and water is in large buckets. It's becoming a heck of a chore when I'm having to empty and scrub them everyday though!

I've posted this in sheep and cattle to hopefully get a breadth of experience, I hope that's ok. Any suggestions will be gratefully received!
Title: Re: Crow problem
Post by: SallyintNorth on September 20, 2016, 03:36:55 pm
I've answered in Sheep; can I suggest we use only one thread for answers? 

Here is the link to the thread in Sheep.  linky (http://www.accidentalsmallholder.net/forum/index.php?topic=77971.0)

Whitehills, if you lock this thread, people can see it in Cattle and follow the link to the discussion in Sheep.