Gino
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Okay…. here’s one that is a little disgusting.
On our property at home, we’ve been feeding the birds for 25 years. Over the years we’ve had all kinds of birds come and go. It’s so therapeutic to watch birds fly in and out of the trees getting food, drinking the water from the several bird baths around and watch them nest all over the property. All year long we feed these little guys.
Seems everyone loves our bird seed and are starting to take advantage of it. We’re going through bird seed like crazy this year. Like I said, we feed the birds and even though the other critters can’t read the sign I have posted ‘For Birds Only’, they’re still not verbally invited. We’ve used many types of deterrents over the years which work for a period of time, but eventually get old and the squirrels, chipmunks, ducks, opossums, fox, peacocks, raccoons, turkeys, stray cats, rabbits, turtles, hawks and some others…. they still are taking the majority of the seed. We have over 25 turkeys that come all day long and now the ground is covered in turkey chit to boot.
Well, I don’t want to kill the turkeys, so I have fire crackers [inchers] and that is doing a good job. They’re almost not around after a week of this noise. The squirrels, I’m shooting with a pellet rifle. The other critters do very little, but the frickin’ chipmunks….. they’re not only stealing a lot of food, but they’re burying it all over the frickin’ property and making holes and ruining plants and just plain doing a lot of damage. I’ve been shooting them and last Sunday I picked off 5 in an hour. There are still tons of them scurrying all around.
Yeah, they’re cute and funny to watch, but it’s like grandkids…. when they’re not your own, is when they’re cute. I can’t shoot ‘em fast enough, so here comes the disgusting part. My wife was talking with an old friend of hers who explained to her what the Chipmunk Queen does to get rid of them.
I suggest this to anyone having problems with chipmunks and it only works with chipmunks.
You drown them……. You ask how are they gonna drown if they’re on your property and the little buggers can swim like a champ ?? Well, you put a bucket of water filled about 4 inches from the top at areas where you know these guys travel and put a small wooden ramp from the ground to the rim of the bucket. Sprinkle a few black sunflower seeds on the ramp and then put about two handfuls of seed in the water. It floats for a day or so. These guys are so greedy, they gather the seeds up going up the ramp, look in the bucket and think they’ve located the Mother Load of seed and jump in the water. They swim around in there until they get tired and roll over and drown. You fish them out, get rid of them and re-set your trap with more seed on the ramp.
The first day we caught three. We started this past Saturday and everyday since, we’ve gotten two or three more. We’re up to 14 after five days.
One thing to be prepared for……… this might sound cruel, but we must try to keep our property safe for all animals and these guys are ruining it for all the others. However…. no matter how much they destroy, if you come walking around and see movement in the bucket…. don’t, I repeat, don’t look in or you’ll feel really bad for them. I did it and actually got a little sick in my stomach watching him swimming around…… and knowing what is in store for him.
Anyway, there are all kinds of tools, sprays and stuff to pour around the property and we’ve tried them all. This is the first one that works and keeps on working.
On our property at home, we’ve been feeding the birds for 25 years. Over the years we’ve had all kinds of birds come and go. It’s so therapeutic to watch birds fly in and out of the trees getting food, drinking the water from the several bird baths around and watch them nest all over the property. All year long we feed these little guys.
Seems everyone loves our bird seed and are starting to take advantage of it. We’re going through bird seed like crazy this year. Like I said, we feed the birds and even though the other critters can’t read the sign I have posted ‘For Birds Only’, they’re still not verbally invited. We’ve used many types of deterrents over the years which work for a period of time, but eventually get old and the squirrels, chipmunks, ducks, opossums, fox, peacocks, raccoons, turkeys, stray cats, rabbits, turtles, hawks and some others…. they still are taking the majority of the seed. We have over 25 turkeys that come all day long and now the ground is covered in turkey chit to boot.
Well, I don’t want to kill the turkeys, so I have fire crackers [inchers] and that is doing a good job. They’re almost not around after a week of this noise. The squirrels, I’m shooting with a pellet rifle. The other critters do very little, but the frickin’ chipmunks….. they’re not only stealing a lot of food, but they’re burying it all over the frickin’ property and making holes and ruining plants and just plain doing a lot of damage. I’ve been shooting them and last Sunday I picked off 5 in an hour. There are still tons of them scurrying all around.
Yeah, they’re cute and funny to watch, but it’s like grandkids…. when they’re not your own, is when they’re cute. I can’t shoot ‘em fast enough, so here comes the disgusting part. My wife was talking with an old friend of hers who explained to her what the Chipmunk Queen does to get rid of them.
I suggest this to anyone having problems with chipmunks and it only works with chipmunks.
You drown them……. You ask how are they gonna drown if they’re on your property and the little buggers can swim like a champ ?? Well, you put a bucket of water filled about 4 inches from the top at areas where you know these guys travel and put a small wooden ramp from the ground to the rim of the bucket. Sprinkle a few black sunflower seeds on the ramp and then put about two handfuls of seed in the water. It floats for a day or so. These guys are so greedy, they gather the seeds up going up the ramp, look in the bucket and think they’ve located the Mother Load of seed and jump in the water. They swim around in there until they get tired and roll over and drown. You fish them out, get rid of them and re-set your trap with more seed on the ramp.
The first day we caught three. We started this past Saturday and everyday since, we’ve gotten two or three more. We’re up to 14 after five days.
One thing to be prepared for……… this might sound cruel, but we must try to keep our property safe for all animals and these guys are ruining it for all the others. However…. no matter how much they destroy, if you come walking around and see movement in the bucket…. don’t, I repeat, don’t look in or you’ll feel really bad for them. I did it and actually got a little sick in my stomach watching him swimming around…… and knowing what is in store for him.
Anyway, there are all kinds of tools, sprays and stuff to pour around the property and we’ve tried them all. This is the first one that works and keeps on working.
