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epherdwicks

  • Joined Apr 2016
keeping birds off lamb creep
« 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...
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Foobar

  • Joined Mar 2012
    • South Wales
Re: keeping birds off lamb creep
« Reply #1 on: May 15, 2017, 05:11:33 pm »
What sort of creep feeder are you using at the moment?
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Marches Farmer

  • Joined Dec 2012
    • Herefordshire
Re: keeping birds off lamb creep
« Reply #2 on: May 16, 2017, 08:39:00 am »
Two dead uns strung up above the feeder.
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epherdwicks

  • Joined Apr 2016
Re: keeping birds off lamb creep
« Reply #3 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.
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EP90

  • Joined Jan 2013
    • Ireland
Re: keeping birds off lamb creep
« Reply #4 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.
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