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I need to kill some pigeons. Any ideas. I could care less if it's illegal.

I have tried ant poison, and decon rat/mouse killer as well as automotive
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They are stupid and you can get them to commit suicide very easily. Get
some pigeon food. Go out on the ledge where they roost. Show it to them.
Step off the ledge and they will follow you.
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Best is while they are asleep and cant fly in the dark, soak house
with gasolene and light it up.
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Give them Alka-Seltzer. They explode.
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It's futile. As some great warrior once said: "The penis is mightier than
the sword," by which he meant that your enemy can breed faster than you can
kill them.

That said, there is a certain satisfaction by stacking up the bodies. To be
effective, you must consider their milieu. For example, one NY taxi driver
worked out a system whereby he would slow down as he approached a pigeon,
then stomp on the accelerator. The pigeon thought the taxi was going to give
him the right-of-way and was lulled into a sense of complacency. As a
result, the taxi got too close for the pigeon to respond to the taxi's
surge. The cab driver giggled like a little girl, removed the pigeon from
the grillwork, and added another silhouette to the front fender.

Obviously the taxi-driver's technique won't work on 34th-story window ledge.

There are several techniques he
http://www.getridofthings.com/get-rid-of-pigeons.htm

But the list is not exhaustive. It does not include, for example, pet hawks
or even paper-mache owls.

My favorite is a bolt-action .22 rifle with sub-sonic bullets; it's nearly
silent.


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automotive anti freeze.


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It's futile. As some great warrior once said: "The penis is mightier than
the sword," by which he meant that your enemy can breed faster than you can
kill them.

That said, there is a certain satisfaction by stacking up the bodies. To be
effective, you must consider their milieu. For example, one NY taxi driver
worked out a system whereby he would slow down as he approached a pigeon,
then stomp on the accelerator. The pigeon thought the taxi was going to give
him the right-of-way and was lulled into a sense of complacency. As a
result, the taxi got too close for the pigeon to respond to the taxi's
surge. The cab driver giggled like a little girl, removed the pigeon from
the grillwork, and added another silhouette to the front fender.

Obviously the taxi-driver's technique won't work on 34th-story window ledge.

There are several techniques hehttp://www.getridofthings.com/get-rid-of-pigeons.htm

But the list is not exhaustive. It does not include, for example, pet hawks
or even paper-mache owls.

My favorite is a bolt-action .22 rifle with sub-sonic bullets; it's nearly
silent.


When I was young we were shooing pigeons in my friends barn, after a
big rain his dad nearly shot us, it had a metal roof.


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Here 'ya go:

http://tinyurl.com/2xoglg

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Give them Alka-Seltzer. They explode.


Debunked at snopes.com

Same for rice.

http://www.snopes.com/critters/crusader/birdrice.asp

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rice


Debunked.

See:

http://www.snopes.com/critters/crusader/birdrice.asp

Birds eat rice all the time - at least in rice fields.


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What is the need to kill them? Do you have a good recipe?
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he he he....!

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F/U

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When I was a kid, my father used to shoot pigeons and was just as likely to
add them to the menu as he was the pheasants, rabbits, etc. My wife
wouldn't have anything to do with cooking them as she grew up on a farm and
thought of them as vermin. One day I was out by the landlords barn and shot
a pigeon. I got the bright idea of cleaning it and taking it in and telling
her that I had just managed to shoot a quail. Well, OK, she'd cook that
for me but wasn't going to eat it, herself. I tell you that was the
nastiest tasting, toughest old bird I'd ever ate. It was some years before
I told her of the joke I played on her...errr, myself.

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rice


Debunked.

See:

http://www.snopes.com/critters/crusader/birdrice.asp

Birds eat rice all the time - at least in rice fields.


Rice in rice fields are not dried. Look at the source. In one study 3 out
of 5 people prefer Pepsi. In another, 3 out of 5 people prefer Coke. In
another, 3 out of 5 prefer Dr Pepper. The first was funded by Pepsi. The
second, Coke. The third, Dr Pepper. Carefully study the source of the
"expert" or study. The information presented is of dubious reliability.


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You are supposed to give it to them, not try it yourself.


His underwear must be a frikkin' mess huh?
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Build a bird house with one way doors. My cousin did this when he got
tired of them pooping on his car. Each hole in the house had a tube of
chicken wire behind it . The pigeons could fly in but they couldnt get
out. He set it on top of the 4 story building he worked in and it only
took a couple of months to get rid of all the pigeons. The city had
tried to get rid of them because they were becoming a health hazard
and ruining the buildings using poisons, fake owls. I think he made
the thing out of paper mache sprayed with enamel paint to water proof
it.

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rice


Debunked.

See:

http://www.snopes.com/critters/crusader/birdrice.asp

Birds eat rice all the time - at least in rice fields.


Rice in rice fields are not dried. Look at the source. In one study 3
out of 5 people prefer Pepsi. In another, 3 out of 5 people prefer
Coke. In another, 3 out of 5 prefer Dr Pepper. The first was funded
by Pepsi. The second, Coke. The third, Dr Pepper. Carefully study the
source of the "expert" or study. The information presented is of
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Yes but 5 out of 5 in all surveys fart in grocery stores.
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Build a bird house with one way doors. My cousin did this when he got
tired of them pooping on his car. Each hole in the house had a tube of
chicken wire behind it . The pigeons could fly in but they couldnt get
out. He set it on top of the 4 story building he worked in and it only
took a couple of months to get rid of all the pigeons. The city had
tried to get rid of them because they were becoming a health hazard
and ruining the buildings using poisons, fake owls. I think he made
the thing out of paper mache sprayed with enamel paint to water proof
it.

Jimmie


A friend of mine put up a "scare owl" on top of his building.
When he climbed up to look, he found a pigeon screwing the
scare owl.

TDD
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I know you are a smart reasonable man. It's just that I am smarter and more
reasonable (and experienced with pigeons).

So, here's my take on being a contractor where I was called on for pigeon
control.

First major point is that killing them is not the answer. If you could
miraculously eliminate EVERY SINGLE pigeon there now, more would move back
in by sunset tomorrow.

Three things are necessary.

ONE Remove all nests and nestlings from wherever they are now. Parents
will always come back to babies, and new couples will be attracted to the
scent of nests.

TWO Clean as much as you can the nesting area, using bleach, 409, Soylent
Green, Whatever you can use that will clean somewhat, but not leave big
streaks that are more unsightly then the nests.

THREE Block off the nesting areas. Netting, hardware cloth, sheet metal,
whatever. They really do not want a perch, which only makes them pests for
the day. They want nesting sites that make them pests for weeks. They're
apartment shopping.

I have gotten rid of major infestations of pigeons. If you study pigeon
behavior, it is the nesting part of it that is the lynchpin. Eliminate
that, and you may have some stopping by for a while (and that will diminish
with time), but the nest is the KEY element. Block off the access to the
nests, and the pigeons will go elsewhere. It can be a PITA and a couple of
weeks work, but two years down the line, and you look up there, and there's
no pigeons, you will know you did the right thing. THEY'RE NOT LOOKING FOR
A PERCH, THEY'RE LOOKING FOR AN APARTMENT.

MHO from years of dealing with pigeons. YMMV, let me know how it works.

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Rice? The stuff commonly available to birds in any state where rice is
readily available? That rice? It is a common food that has no effect on
birds. If so, the EPA in its infinite wisdom would have shut down all rice
farming in the world.

Rice? What have you been smoking? Do yo have any left?

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hungry kitty.

Yeah. You just try to get that fat cat of mine out on a rafter end. This
imitation of a spit bubble will hardly jump from the floor to the couch.
She just sits and meows until you lift her. If she ever got up on a rafter
end, there'd be one dead FAT cat laying on the ground the next day, and I
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http://www.airgundepot.com/crosman-quest-1000x.html

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Shoot thousands of rounds, and you haven't eliminated the key ingredient
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nest sites.

Think about it.

You can think, right? Gunfire solves only SOME problems.

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Give them Alka-Seltzer. They explode.


Yeah. Have lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of dead pigeons laying
around. And then someone calls the law. Then the law calls the feds. You
want to get hooked up with EPA and State Wildlife?

I didn't think so.

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Killing them isn't the answer. It's just like evicting the current
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I have tried ant poison, and decon rat/mouse killer as well as
automotive
anti freeze.

Thanks,

cm


Build a bird house with one way doors. My cousin did this when he got
tired of them pooping on his car. Each hole in the house had a tube of
chicken wire behind it . The pigeons could fly in but they couldnt get
out. He set it on top of the 4 story building he worked in and it only
took a couple of months to get rid of all the pigeons. The city had
tried to get rid of them because they were becoming a health hazard
and ruining the buildings using poisons, fake owls. I think he made
the thing out of paper mache sprayed with enamel paint to water proof
it.

Jimmie


A friend of mine put up a "scare owl" on top of his building.
When he climbed up to look, he found a pigeon screwing the
scare owl.

TDD


Most worthless thing there is. Unless you're selling them, that is.

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Rice? The stuff commonly available to birds in any state where rice is
readily available? That rice? It is a common food that has no effect on
birds. If so, the EPA in its infinite wisdom would have shut down all rice
farming in the world.

Rice? What have you been smoking? Do yo have any left?


I think this is an outgrowth of the urban legend or whatever that
lead to weddings using soap bubbles instead of rice throwing because it
allegedly expanded in the birds causing them to explode. I know that
after our wedding we had a bunch of problems with starlings blowing up..
but that was probably more related to my sociopathic best man and his
affinity for M-80s (grin). The Snopes stuff on this is at
http://www.snopes.com/critters/crusader/birdrice.asp

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of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.
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Give them Alka-Seltzer. They explode.


Yeah. Have lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of dead pigeons laying
around. And then someone calls the law. Then the law calls the feds. You
want to get hooked up with EPA and State Wildlife?

I didn't think so.

Steve



Just tell the EPA and wildlife that Stacey Chuffo spread her legs and
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Shoot thousands of rounds, and you haven't eliminated the key
ingredient ............

nest sites.

Think about it.

You can think, right? Gunfire solves only SOME problems.

Steve NRA CCF


I think gunfire - or the threat of gunfire - actually solves most problems.


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I do believe it's possible for rice to expand in the bird's
stomach. However, most people don't have the patience to
raise a pot of water to rolling boil, and spend 9 to 11
minutes boiling the bird.

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I think this is an outgrowth of the urban legend or
whatever that
lead to weddings using soap bubbles instead of rice throwing
because it
allegedly expanded in the birds causing them to explode. I
know that
after our wedding we had a bunch of problems with starlings
blowing up..
but that was probably more related to my sociopathic best
man and his
affinity for M-80s (grin). The Snopes stuff on this is at
http://www.snopes.com/critters/crusader/birdrice.asp

--
Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when
thought
of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.
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My father tried one time to get the squirrel out of his bird
feeded. He did trap and release. He describes it as trying
ot make a hole in the ocean by bailing from one side of the
boat to another.

Your description is excellent, also.

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What is the need to kill them? Do you have a good
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Killing them isn't the answer. It's just like evicting the
current
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HOUSING AVAILABLE





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Give them Alka-Seltzer. They explode.
Yeah. Have lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of dead pigeons
laying around. And then someone calls the law. Then the law calls the
feds. You want to get hooked up with EPA and State Wildlife?

I didn't think so.

Steve

Just tell the EPA and wildlife that Stacey Chuffo spread her legs and all
the pigeons dropped dead.


Probably be a breath of fresh air compared my dick after I stuck it up
Deborah Berryman's ****.


Ain't that the truth.
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On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 13:03:54 -0700, Oren wrote:

On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 23:32:00 -0400, "Roemax"
wrote:

rice


Debunked.

See:

http://www.snopes.com/critters/crusader/birdrice.asp

Birds eat rice all the time - at least in rice fields.


Rice in rice fields are not dried. Look at the source. In one study 3 out
of 5 people prefer Pepsi. In another, 3 out of 5 people prefer Coke. In
another, 3 out of 5 prefer Dr Pepper. The first was funded by Pepsi. The
second, Coke. The third, Dr Pepper. Carefully study the source of the
"expert" or study. The information presented is of dubious reliability.


Never found a study on exploding birds, but Cornell University (lab of
ornithology) states:

"If birds eat uncooked rice, can it swell up in their throats and
stomachs and kill them?"

"Lots of birds eat uncooked rice in the wild. Bobolinks, sometimes
called rice birds, are a good example. While rice is okay for birds,
many wedding parties now throw bird seed instead."

http://www.birds.cornell.edu/pfw/Abo...irdFeeding.htm

Even bird watchers debunk these myths.

"You should not throw rice at the bride and groom at weddings because
birds eat it and it swells up in their stomach and kills them.
Sometimes the myth goes that it causes them to explode."

"Not true. If it were, there would be exploding bird stories all over
the national press every June. Think about it. Lots of birds feast in
rice fields every year, irritating rice farmers to distraction. If
eating rice caused birds to explode, most rice fields would look like
a popcorn machine in the harvest season, with little puffs and
explosions providing constant entertainment. Quite a vision, and one
that the press would never miss."

"And there is no difference between rice in fields and rice in bags
from the supermarket. Birds have no trouble digesting rice, or any
other "expanding" vegetable. I am all in favor of throwing birdseed at
weddings, which is what proponents of this myth urge as a solution. I
like the symbolism of throwing birdseed. But rice is fine, too."

http://www.birdwatchersdigest.com/si...ths/myths.aspx


Essentially, those comments support Snopes, ime.
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Michael Dobony wrote in
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On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 13:03:54 -0700, Oren wrote:

On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 23:32:00 -0400, "Roemax"
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rice


Debunked.

See:

http://www.snopes.com/critters/crusader/birdrice.asp

Birds eat rice all the time - at least in rice fields.


Rice in rice fields are not dried. Look at the source. In one study 3
out of 5 people prefer Pepsi. In another, 3 out of 5 people prefer
Coke. In another, 3 out of 5 prefer Dr Pepper. The first was funded
by Pepsi. The second, Coke. The third, Dr Pepper. Carefully study the
source of the "expert" or study. The information presented is of
dubious reliability.


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I need to kill some pigeons. Any ideas. I could care less if it's
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I have tried ant poison, and decon rat/mouse killer as well as
automotive anti freeze.

Thanks,

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Yes but 5 out of 5 in all surveys fart in grocery stores.


Not true in all surveys. Girls don't fart, they "fluff".
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I need to kill some pigeons. Any ideas. I could care less if it's illegal.

I have tried ant poison, and decon rat/mouse killer as well as automotive
anti freeze.

Thanks,

cm


This may not be germane, but when SWMBO and I were in Quebec City about
six years ago we learned that they were aiming at keeping the pigeon
population under control with feeding stations containing food which
didn't kill the pigeons, but made them sterile so they couldn't breed
new generations.

I have no idea if it worked or not.

Jeff

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On Sun, 26 Jul 2009 10:11:52 -0400, "Stormin Mormon"
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I do believe it's possible for rice to expand in the bird's
stomach. However, most people don't have the patience to
raise a pot of water to rolling boil, and spend 9 to 11
minutes boiling the bird.


This is true. Prison officer heard a noise in the cell block clothes
drier. He went to investigate and found that a Cuban prisoners was
tumbling a pigeon in the dryer (cooking). I can imagine it sounded
like tennis shoes tumbling around.

The Frenchastans and Quackastanes like pigeon.
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