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Livestock => Sheep => Topic started by: epherdwicks on May 15, 2017, 04:08:13 pm

Title: keeping birds off lamb creep
Post by: epherdwicks on May 15, 2017, 04:08:13 pm

Does anyone have any bright ideas as to how to stop jackdaws eating my lambs' creep? Anything the lambs can reach the birds can also get at, so I don't know how much the lambs are actually consuming. I'm sure there must be something we can make/rig up to deter the birds...

Title: Re: keeping birds off lamb creep
Post by: Foobar on May 15, 2017, 05:11:33 pm

What sort of creep feeder are you using at the moment?

Title: Re: keeping birds off lamb creep
Post by: Marches Farmer on May 16, 2017, 08:39:00 am

Two dead uns strung up above the feeder.

Title: Re: keeping birds off lamb creep
Post by: epherdwicks on May 16, 2017, 10:11:30 am

Thanks Marches farmer - that's what my husband said!

Currently have a trough suspended at lamb head height, under a human waist-height shelter.  Bit Heath Robinson-ish but best I can manage at the moment.

Title: Re: keeping birds off lamb creep
Post by: EP90 on May 16, 2017, 05:28:04 pm

As Marchers farmer, that normally works but not directly above the feeder, you don’t want maggots dropping into feeder or to attract flies too close to feeding lambs.