Anyone use a Pigeon Repeller??

[BRENT in 10-uh-C]

I have a fairly large warehouse area that the Pigeons have overtaken an area of the bar joists making a mess of anything below. I see where there are gels that can be applied to the metal rails, -or I can purchase plastic spikes, ...and I have looked at the electronic repellers such as Bird-X's Balcony Guard. Has anyone successfully used any of these products, and which one do you feel would be the best for getting rid of these birds?

 

[rburke65]

No experience with those, but I think you have to eliminate their roosting areas. That could be a problem with the bar joists.

 

[Jacko264]

gun ?

 

[redmondjp]

Bird spikes or netting where they roost.

 

[BRENT in 10-uh-C]

Bird spikes or netting where they roost.

I saw that, but wondered if I put down 250' of it, do they move to the next joist that doesn't have it where I must put down another 250'?

 

[MEngineer]

I saw that, but wondered if I put down 250' of it, do they move to the next joist that doesn't have it where I must put down another 250'?

Yup, they will move to the next most convenient spot. Netting hung across the bottom of the joists...possibly use high tension cables with moderate spacing to support the netting strung horizontally just below the joist lower chord

 

[Bluedodge]

FWIW - we had an idiot neighbor raising the things in his back yard to train his dogs (we're in a subdivision, township considered them legal).

Things would roost on the roof peaks and peck at the shingles. Something about needing gravel to help their digestive tract.

Screwed around with fake owls, plastic spike strips, hanging CD's from trees for weird lights, etc....

Finally got a Crossman BB gun and would pop them when they'd roost on our house. Wouldn't kill 'em, just a big **** of feathers. A bigger **** if we used pellets.

They left our roof alone and pecked holes in other roofs around the neighborhood.

Hire a neighborhood kid for $10, give him a Red Rider and some safety glasses and let him have some fun. The pigeons will find a calmer roost.

 

[TractorJeff]

When we were kids (back before PCness) around the farms, we shot them. Air rifles to harass them, later shotguns to eradicate them! Most Farmers were only too happy to have us come around as long as we didn't shoot anything else!

 

[Tejay]

My brother in law had an issue with them in his open implement shed and we used a shotgun. After a few were knocked down we hung one by the leg from the trusses. They quickly moved on to less a hazardous neighbourhood. This was out on farmland so maybe a pellet gun in more populated areas.

 

[48RON54]

Another vote for pellet gun. That's how I got the 3 out of my warehouse at work.

 

[orangeblood]

have you tried tanglefoot? if you spread some where the like to land they will not come back

 

[Lelandwelds]

Shoot enough with a spring piston and they will know you on sight. Even without the rifle, they will fly away every time you walk outside.

Birds are not stupid.

 

[AZ Pete]

FWIW - we had an idiot neighbor raising the things in his back yard to train his dogs (we're in a subdivision, township considered them legal).

Things would roost on the roof peaks and peck at the shingles. Something about needing gravel to help their digestive tract.

Screwed around with fake owls, plastic spike strips, hanging CD's from trees for weird lights, etc....

Finally got a Crossman BB gun and would pop them when they'd roost on our house. Wouldn't kill 'em, just a big **** of feathers. A bigger **** if we used pellets.

They left our roof alone and pecked holes in other roofs around the neighborhood.

Hire a neighborhood kid for $10, give him a Red Rider and some safety glasses and let him have some fun. The pigeons will find a calmer roost.

you likely killed them, just not DRT, they just flew off and died somewhere else.


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[blair683]

We have this problem at my work. They put out poison corn one time. We all had to watch pigeons flop around on the floor and die a very slow death all the time. It was kind of depressing. Needless to say we still have pigeons but no more poison corn either. Can’t you put a fake owl with a spinning head on the roof or is that an old wise tale?

 

[denis4x4]

Here are a 100 bb/pellet guns.

 

[BRENT in 10-uh-C]

I will tell you straight-up that pellet guns or shot guns are NOT the answer for me. When I purchased the building, there were holes in the roof tin from pigeons being shot at by the former owner's employees. A few hundred dollars shy of $10k is what it cost me to have all the roof sheeting repaired.

 

[Tejay]

Brent- when you come close to the door ,shotgun at the ready they will fly out in a tight formation. Have at er with the shotgun OUTSIDE but they learn quickly and after one or two attempts they no longer fly in a tight formation. They will probably move on after a few are dispatched.

 

[OccupantRJ]

Buy a bunch of rubber snakes and lay along the bar joists. It may take a quite a few for a warehouse. I laid one on a porch roof at work and problem instantly resolved.

 

[pancho400cid]

I work at a large manufacturing facility. It used to be absolutely plagued with birds... especially grackles.

A few years ago the facilities people launched an all-out war on the birds. The building is Core-Ten steel and they used similar metal welded/screwed into place to make as many hidey-holes as possible inaccessible to birds. Where they could they added metal to put a slope over roof ledges that were originally flat. They put commercially available plastic anti-roosting spikes all around the building in roosting ledges etc... this is a big place and we are talking about a LOT of plastic spikes. Lastly under several large roof overhangs, they put plastic netting kinda like chicken wire from the overhang to the ground.

The reduction in bird issues was very significant. A hundred yokels with a hundred BB guns would never have done as much good.

 

[LS6 Tommy]

Spikes are illegal in many towns in NJ. I find if you eliminate their food source they'll move on. I don't have a problem, though. We have lots of Red Tailed, Coopers and Sharp shinned hawks around.

 

[joe_padavano]

The ultrasonic repellers are worse than worthless. I tried one of those Balcony Guards and it ATTRACTED more of the damn birds. I tried every possible combination of settings on the unit. What a POS.

Covering the holes is definitely the only real solution. I wasn't in a position to do a solid ceiling. I got a roll of deer netting at Home Depot (plastic with 1" squares) and put it up. Birds have not returned.

 

[knobby]

One big bag of birdseed and enough beer or wine to soak it. Spread it out where the pigeons roost and let nature do the rest.
Funny thing I suspect that the government does something similar in some areas but not with wildlife...

 

[RStewart]

+1 for tanglefoot. But I only had to spread on a short section of wire the sky rats would sit on and **** on the side of the house..
Good luck.

 

[nes999]

My neighbor uses a .22 rifle. My dogs tend to keep nuisance birds away. Although ill shoot a few every year. I agree with the other posters saying they go to the convient places.

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[dbabicky]

Rat poison ground up with corn will get them every time !!!

 

[velocipede]

Google Nixalite for a variety of possible solutions. My local gas stop (WaWa) installed netting underneath the gas canopy to keep birds out. It works.

 

[SALIV8]

I have some experience with this in downtown chicago on a hi rise and another mid rise.

We tried the speakers that make the sounds, worked for only a couple days then the flying rats get used to the sounds and come back.

We tried the owls, the wind flapping bright things that are supposed to scare these flying pos. these didnt work.

We consulted professional pigeon hunters (relocators) and they would have worked but downtown chgo was not a good environment for the tactics these guys use (large nets fired out of guns, traps, etc.)

What worked was the bird-x gel that you apply using a caulk gun. You zigzag the gel (follow the directions) and that was a permanent solution.

At another building, also downtown chgo, there was a large conduit (4" or so) that the pos loved to sit on and poop. Because of the smaller surface area of the pipe, a single piece of rope strung from one end to the other and tied off worked great and was the cheapest.

good luck.

 

[tapered-pin]

when I see pigeons, I know its time to move further out of town.

 

[jumbojak]

Buy a bunch of rubber snakes and lay along the bar joists. It may take a quite a few for a warehouse. I laid one on a porch roof at work and problem instantly resolved.

That's ingenious! But... I wonder how people would react when one, inevitably, falls to the working floor?

 

[Maladjusted]

Use a red laser pointer light when they are inside. It drives them absolutely crazy and they fly out. Do this a few times and they leave for good.

 

[LS6 Tommy]

We have this problem at my work. They put out poison corn one time. We all had to watch pigeons flop around on the floor and die a very slow death all the time. It was kind of depressing. Needless to say we still have pigeons but no more poison corn either. Can’t you put a fake owl with a spinning head on the roof or is that an old wise tale?

Fake owls do not repel birds. They don't prey on them. You need a fake hawk or falcon, but even they're not super effective.

Tommy