[Dizzycow]

Womble, I forgot you took a RIR too. The Great Roberto & Lovely Lill kindly despatched his brother for me last week. He was very handsome. Great that your boy is doing the necessary! Glad Senor Legover didn't go to waste!

DITW, I got very overexcited a few months ago when (bored at work and thinking about mice infestations) I invented the electric mouse trap. Thought I'd be a millionaire overnight. Turns out some bugger has already invented it. Gutted.
A duck egg sized dummy could fit 2 AA batteries inside, give a nasty shock to a greedy bird. Would it kill? (It would have to be accessible to rats, crows and magpies, but not poultry or pets. I'm loving this idea. Get yourself on to the Dragon's Den immediately.

I'll get a larson trap from the keeper when I return his mink traps which I borrowed for a nearby friend who had her call ducks eaten by mink. It's a constant battle. I'll also look into ceramic eggs, although I think the flabrador will steal them....

[deepinthewoods]

im a bit busy at the minute, patenting my battery powered slug fence, its like a miniature electric fence for raised beds.

[Dizzycow]

Fabulous. While you're at it I wouldn't mind some sort of No Fly Zone arrangement for greenfly, if that isn't too much bother. Perhaps teeny weeny little tanks with teeny weeny homing missiles? Something like that? Thanks a million, you're a star.
 

[deepinthewoods]

hmmm greenfly are a bit trickier, im currently assessing using toxic radio frequencies to confuse and bewilder them, based on my own experiments its a toss up between radio 1 and kiss fm. hope that helps.

[Dizzycow]

Thanks. You're a huge help. Not.

I'm a Radio 2 listener, and now I'm at a loss for what to do as I the aforementioned toxic frequencies also confuse and bewilder the addled smallholder.

Tsk.

I wonder what station would deter midges? The flight of the bumblebee on Classic FM?

[robert waddell]

we bought the electric rat traps  they never killed a rat    try getting anything into a dark one trip hole laced with tasters
now our electric fence can kill slugs no problem for beds you could rig up  two wires close to each other one positive the feed wire and the other wire the earth wire  when they cross them its curtains  for them
the same principal could be applied to an electric rat trap   a person  will only last 20 minutes then heart failure if caught on the wire

[Dizzycow]

I'm telling you, there's money to be made in them thar inventions.

[deepinthewoods]

i think the clue is in the word 'addled' maybe a sleeping tablet laced bait egg would slow the crows down a bit?
literally 'stone the crows'

[Dizzycow]

You're a genius. They'd be staggering around the lawn, squaking 'I love you, man, I'm not just saying that, I bloody love you.' While I took pot shots. Pot shots! Hahahaha! 

[deepinthewoods]

 

[Womble]

Wow, what a thread! 

im a bit busy at the minute, patenting my battery powered slug fence, its like a miniature electric fence for raised beds.

Sorry DITW, somebody else beat you to it!

[Dizzycow]

Crap. There goes another Get Rich Quick scheme. 

[Penninehillbilly]

Back to being sensible :-)
we have a larson trap, I believe a decoy magpie will catch another magpie or crow, but a crow wil only catch a crow, or is it the other way round? anyway, I hate it, having to kill the trapped one, having to feed and water the decoy, and they smell, however, a necessary evil, and it's time I was setting it again, I'm sure the geese should be laying now, and the call ducks, only seen 2 call eggs and they were in the polytunnel.
I once read that filling an egg with mustard would deter future pilfering, or plaster of paris. I found a rubber egg down the field only a few days ago, fox or badger?

[deepinthewoods]

Wow, what a thread! 

im a bit busy at the minute, patenting my battery powered slug fence, its like a miniature electric fence for raised beds.

Sorry DITW, somebody else beat you to it!

cheers for the plug (geddit?)

[Smalltime]

I read a piece of copper wire gives slugs an electric shock on its own if you put it round the perimeter of the beds. You don't need batteries apparently