Drowning sparrows??

[enola]

There are sparrow traps that are very effective at solving those problems .

 

[Adorkable]

Mine fight over dead birds, frogs, mice, and anything else that looks delicious, to them at least.

Mine love the frogs but won't touch the mice. The ducks however gobble the mice right up! Good protein for them, but I'm just concerned about them possibly eating a bird that is diseased and getting sick.

 

[Adorkable]

There are sparrow traps that are very effective at solving those problems .

hmmm just looked it up. It looks similar to a minow trap. Wonder if a minow trap would work. Question though. How would I dispatch them once they're trapped?

 

[enola]

Drown them

 

[Adorkable]

Drown them

Perfect, thank you!

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

Mine love the frogs but won't touch the mice. The ducks however gobble the mice right up! Good protein for them, but I'm just concerned about them possibly eating a bird that is diseased and getting sick.

good luck trapping them or stopping them, others will fill the void, I focus more on a healthy robust flock, I have not had any trouble with any diseases from them eating birds, and I find a lot of birds in my water buckets. We do knock down any nests that they start in the shed, this has kept their numbers lower, but you cannot eliminate them, the birds also poop in the water dishes, I just dump twice daily. Free food and water sources attract wild birds, it just a fact of life in keeping poultry.

 

[enola]

I find drowned birds in my stock tank fairly often. Usually when the weather is dry. Drinking or bathing? I don't know, but when I find them, they are dead......

 

[jimbob86]

Might sound terrible, but I kinda wish my sparrows would drown. I have at least 2 dozen that stick around all winter and eat the free range layers feed and drink their water. They poop all over the place and dust bathe in my chickens dust bathing areas so I'm afraid they're going to spread parasites and possibly other diseases. I might try and keep the layers locked up for a few weeks this fall to see if those nasty mooching sparrows will go away. They live in the barn that's maybe 100 feet from my house

An inexpensive pellet gun, a flashlight, and a midnight trip to the barn might be in order....... wait until you get a good solid cold snap, too: birds that escape out into the dark will be hard pressed not to freeze to death out there.........

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

Though that is why my tin sheds are full of holes, the last owners did that a lot. We still have sparrows.

 

[jimbob86]

A flat nosed soft lead pellet driven at 600 f/sec will barely penetate a soda can ...... your tin shed will be fine. Methinks the previous owners were a bit overgunned for sparrows .......