sparrowhawk threat??

[Roland]

Well thought I'd get it out now. From a great person who's word carries wieght as it has truth.

 

stopped writing about how to deal with birds of prey, because very few people bothered to practise what I preached. However, if you care to dab one drop of IVOMEC POUR-ON (nothing else will do) on to the flesh on the back of your pigeon's neck, three times inside a week, and then once every month thereafter, you will render your pigeon's flesh poisonous to anything. It won't hurt the pigeon, won't affect its fertility or its racing ability. I have been doing it for over 26 years. If the pigeon is eaten by a predator, it will poison the predator. If a fox, or cat, mink, ferret, stoat, etc, gets into the loft and starts killing, you will find a dead fox, etc, later. Ask our Welsh cousins, they now do it regularly and have predators under control in areas where they were once numerous. DO NOT use anything but IVOMEC POUR-ON, as all other louse treatments have been doctored at RSPB requests. IVOMEC has not been so ruined. In India and Nepal, 97% of the Condor population have died off, killed by their habit of eating off the carcases of cattle that had been treated with IVOMEC POUR-ON. India now uses an alternative treatment, but Nepal does not, much to the annoyance of the RSPB. You are NOT attacking birds of prey, you are protecting your pigeons against the ravages of lice and mites, by using IVOMEC POUR-ON which is a prepation formulated for just that purpose. It is NOT licensed for use on pigeons (for some strange reason?) but can be obtained from Agricultural Stores, or Dairy Farmers. It is expensive. If one member in a club buys a litre, costing around £90 or so, he can sell 100ml each to nine fellow members at £10 each and so all protect their birds at a minimum cost. 100ml is enough to protect the average loft for about 2/3 years

[Roland]

That why I posted the Raptures article. Has to be pour on.

[jimmy white]

BANG ON ROLAND I THOUGHT THE MEMBERS WOULD HAVE GOT THE DRIFT YOU WERE GETTING AT B4 THE LAST POST

[Guest]

Hi since I moved to the West Country I don't worry to much about sparrow hawks!!! Van Percy is the blight, having said that sparrow hawks are everywhere down here and do take birds.

Sparrowhawks generally will only take a bird if it is not in flight. When I lived in Barnsley I bought some plastic eagle owls and placed them on the loft and never had a strike. I have them down here and think they may still be successful. Percy however took 20 of my oldest YB in April with another 4/5 missing wings and torn but returned.

I was told to put 3 drops of Ivo mec (must be good stuff for cattle or sheep) every 3 weeks. Day 1 after the drops I let them out I lost another 2 of my oldest YB, have lost none since!! (around the loft) plenty in training. Ivo mec certainly works with Percy I assume with the sparrow too!

It has not knocked the birds off either, we have won 3 out of 6 yb races with several in the first 6 every race and topped the West of England Continental Amal