After feeding out 4h steers for a year I have a serious sparrow problem. I gota trap that's not working probaly To much other feed. Do you guys have any way to exterminate them. They are stealing a ton of cow feed. Open to any thing that works so PM me if needed. Had small problems in winter but nothing like this before. Thanks for any suggestions.

A dream come true for a boy and his Red Ryder.

Hope a sparrow hawk , moves in. They will clean them out. old243

Yep!

^^^^ what they said they have BB gun shooting in 4H too get those kids busy with some of the money they got when they sold the steers I don't see a problem ha ha

The only thing I have found that works well for keeping sparrows away is barn cats. I removed all the cats when I bought my farm and had problems with rodents, sparrows and starlings. In the Winter, when there was light snow, many hundreds of starlings would stay overnight in one of my barns, burying most of my stuff stored there in poop. Sparrows nested and roosted all over. The sparrows stole large amounts of chicken feed. Starlings stole dog food.

I had 1 feral half grown cat show up and let it stay and soon noticed a huge difference in the number of birds and rodents in the barns. The 1 cat chased off hundreds of starlings in 1 night. In the areas the cat had access too, pest numbers dropped. I now have 7 semi feral cats that roam my 5 barns and land and some kittens. I almost never see a sparrow, starling or mouse, anywhere the cats have access too.

I originally trapped sparrows and starlings. There are so many, during the migrations, that trapping is like baling the Titanic with a spoon.

Keith

Hang a mist net where they go in and out. If they roost at night hang the net then roll it up during the day and drop it at night. They will have to try to go through the net to get out,

Get an elevator trap, you can exterminate the sparrows. There will be new ones move in every couple of weeks. I seldom see one around my place but if I do he is usually caught in a few days. I have caught 171 in two years in my barn, have only caught about 15 this summer. Mike

If you can close off all of the access, They can't get in. If you can close of most of the access, you can put up a sparrow zapper. It really is a thing.

Ray gun. Suggest cyl choke.