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- From: Ken Bezilla <kenbez AT hotmail.com>
- To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] crows
- Date: Sat, 21 May 2016 11:36:23 -0400
-- Put the Bird Scare flash tape in place as soon as the corn's planted -- once birds have the habit of eating something good, they're less likely to be scared off by the flash tape
-- On our own farm, we put bird scare flash tape about every 4 or 5 rows, and use scrap rope for the rows in between, having the rope ~12" off the ground -- birds don't like having a rope looming over their heads while they eat, since it makes a fast take-off difficult. -- Years ago, a friend tried out having a crow-shooting scarecrow. He sat on a chair by the corn a few times, fired at the crows with a shotgun to scare them and let them know what he looked like, then he took his (old) clothes that he'd been wearing, used them to make a scarecrow his height and size that sat in the chair with a stick the same size as the shotgun. Seemed to work for him! Ken Bezilla central VA |
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Re: [Market-farming] crows
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- Re: [Market-farming] crows, Kathryn Kerby, 05/20/2016
- Re: [Market-farming] crows, andrea davis-cetina, 05/20/2016
- Re: [Market-farming] crows, jpike, 05/21/2016
- Re: [Market-farming] crows, Richard Stewart, 05/20/2016
- Re: [Market-farming] crows, David Paysnick, 05/21/2016
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Re: [Market-farming] crows,
Shoemaker, William H, 05/21/2016
- Re: [Market-farming] crows, Brian Luton, 05/21/2016
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[Market-farming] crows,
jpike, 05/21/2016
- Re: [Market-farming] crows, Richard Stewart, 05/21/2016
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Re: [Market-farming] crows,
Road's End Farm, 05/21/2016
- Re: [Market-farming] crows, Ken Bezilla, 05/21/2016
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Re: [Market-farming] crows,
Pam Twin Oaks, 05/21/2016
- Re: [Market-farming] crows, jpike, 05/21/2016
- Re: [Market-farming] Crows, Richard Moyer, 05/21/2016
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