i was digging around and found a bird trap that might help you. it looks like a big mousetrap with a net around the bar. it is big enough to hold the bird inside the net, but i would guess that if "yon birdie" tried to get away, it would be killed by the impact rather than caught by the net. here is the website, but it would probably be easier to make one (and cheaper too...) http://www.critterridders.com/pigeon_trap.htm its almost to the bottom of the page called "EZ catch". seems like a good design idea anyway. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith Addison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <biofuel@sustainablelists.org> Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 7:32 AM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] How do you catch a crow?
> Hi Gary, thanks for this > >>They are very crafty and can count people in their area to a point. > > Crows are smart! Have a look at what this crow is doing - check the video: > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2178920.stm > BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Crows prove they are no birdbrains > > Homo habilis indeed, LOL! > >>If you have time, you can walk to the coop with a few people and leave one >>person behind to wait for the crows to return. A call that sounds like a >>crow can call it in. >> >>If legal try a #1-1/2 leg hold trap with a morsel of food TIED to the pan. >>This can catch other animals also so the location and attention when set >>is >>very important. The roof top can be a good place to start. >>There will be no need to disguise the trap for at least the first attempt >>but, be sure to fasten the chain to something just incase the tries to >>fly. > > It's legal, but I'm reluctant to do it. I'd rather kill it outright > (ie shoot it, not an option) or catch it without hurting it and then > kill it. Probably I need to do something clever with a net, but I > haven't managed to figure it out yet. If it comes down to it though > the chicks come first and so the crow dies, whatever works. So thanks > very much for this, I reckon I could get a leg hold trap to work. > >>Also according to reports they can carry lots of germs and disease, so >>handle with a glove and dispose of with care. > > It's because they're carrion eaters I guess. Straight into the > compost bin, not much left after cooking at 70+ deg C for a week or > two. > > Thanks again, all best > > Keith > > > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Keith Addison >>Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2007 7:23 AM >>To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org >>Subject: [Biofuel] How do you catch a crow? >> >>Hi all >> >>A pesky crow moved in a couple of weeks ago. I guess they're all >>pesky, I haven't met any other kind. It reckons this is its territory >>now, there are good pickings here, it's taken to scavenging poultry >>feed for instance, sneak-thief, darts in as soon as your back's >>turned. >> >>Trouble is there'll be flocks of hatchlings around soon, with their >>mums to look after them indeed, but chicks run around, the crow will >>get some of them. >> >>We killed a crow a year or two ago. We'd been having problems with >>them, thieving and so on, and they killed five chicks. Then a couple >>of crows got into the chicken hutch and Midori killed one, the other >>escaped. We hung the dead one up outside the chicken hutch and the >>crows kept away after that. Up to now. >> >>How do you catch a crow when it's not trapped in a chicken hutch? Any >>ideas? I set a trap for a raiding raccoon a couple of months back and >>caught it but I won't catch a crow that way. >> >>TIA >> >>Best >> >>Keith > > > _______________________________________________ > Biofuel mailing list > Biofuel@sustainablelists.org > http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > > Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 > messages): > http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.13/725 - Release Date: 3/17/2007 > 12:33 PM > > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.14/727 - Release Date: 3/19/2007 11:49 AM _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
