Anyone used these bird deterrents?

[ning]

I've found if you put them away at night, and have a feeder where you house them, chickens mostly will "go home" in the evening. We open the coop in the morning, and they're usually all home before the sun goes down.

I've had the occasional chicken that prefers a tree but here that's usually a temporary issue...

 

[Alien]

We have a couple of chickens like that. Actually we have a weird one. It thinks it's a rooster. It has the weirdest crow at 6.00 am in the morning. The other roosters leave it alone. (If you know what I mean)

 

[ponytug]

When we had chickens, there always seemed to be one or two confused hens. At least they are quieter than peacocks (not mine, wild locally around here, and prone to 2am calls).

I have never lived anywhere that the predator pressure wasn't intense, and have come to the conclusion that everything tastes like chicken to any predator. Skunks, raccoon, foxes, weasels, coyotes, hawks, kites...

I like the movable coop ideas. I have friends who have them and love them.

All the best, Peter

 

[Alien]

Not sure when the item will arrive due to the massive flooding event NSW is going through. Roads are closed.

 

[oosik]

When we had dogs that were fed outside, it was magpies. A plastic owl on the roof of my work shed worked for a while. Then a portable radio on the porch of the work shed. Then the bulb went on - fed and watered the dogs inside the work shed.

 

[Alien]

Well, it arrived and has proven totally useless. Even my dogs can sit in front of it and the hens couldn't care less either. In the bin it goes....

 

[BeezFun]

Birds can't hear in the ultrasonic frequency range so devices like that can't work for birds. Humans hear higher frequencies than birds, so if you can't hear it, they can't hear it either.
I had a very bad experience with ultrasonic devices. I bought one that is supposed to activate when a dog barks, so they train themselves to stop barking. I hung it outside on the fence and then our dogs wouldn't go out the back door, they were terrified even though neither of them were barking. It occurred to me the device must be malfunctioning and making its noise all the time. I installed an app on my phone that can detect ultrasonic frequencies and sure enough, the device was always on. So I sent it back to amazon and got my money back. My lesson was that I'll never buy an ultrasonic device as a deterrent because there's no easy way to know if it's on or off.