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Starling problem

The starlings are back and looking for nesting sites. I need a good way to keep them away. If they move into the hobby shop I will be pissed.

I have an old buddy that worked at a cattle feed lot when he was a teenager. The starlings ate more feed than the cattle. One of the the cowboys captured a starling alive and took it home and tortured it to death. He recorded it on 8 track or somthing and brought it to work the next day and when he turned on the recording, every starling left the county.

How do you water board a starling. If you have used a product or have a friend that has and it works, let me know.

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Re: Starling problem

Hmmm, kind of like the killer whales when they attack a great white shark. I'll have to find the story and post it here.
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Re: Starling problem

http://www.starlingtalk.com/guide.htm

Maybe they can help. What SFBs Can hardly wait for thier reaction to my mesage.

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Re: Starling problem

We've used .22 caliber snake shot to remove any unwanted birds where you don't want to damage the siding on your house or where there's a lot of people or houses and a shotgun won't work. It's always done the job.
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qmdv wrote:http://www.starlingtalk.com/guide.htm

Maybe they can help. What SFBs Can hardly wait for thier reaction to my mesage.

Tim


You got to be kidding me!! I guess it takes all kinds, but I'm more like the guy in your original post!
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Re: Starling problem

Go to a farm ranch store and buy a insecticide called "worbex". It is a pour on cattle insecticide. Soak or spray on a food the birds like, (dry cat food, grain, bird seed) and watch them eat and die! Works real good on magpies.
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Re: Starling problem

do an internet search for a product by the name of "Roost No More". It took care of the dirty birds in my hangar very quickly.
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MtCoyote wrote:Go to a farm ranch store and buy a insecticide called "worbex". It is a pour on cattle insecticide. Soak or spray on a food the birds like, (dry cat food, grain, bird seed) and watch them eat and die! Works real good on magpies.


I have used this on cattle in the past. Put it on grain, bird eats grain and dies. What if dog eats dead bird.

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would guess dog would not get enough to hurt him worbex is kind of alcohol based so over time will evaporate
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