ScipioUSA
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- Jul 29, 2019
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- MF 20 Industrial, Ghosts of Farmalls Past
Good morning everyone.
Wondering if anyone has any ideas on how to get bats to move out of a barn.
To start, I don't want to kill them. I like having them to keep the bugs down and I know the little guys are endangered. Also, I'm very glad that they moved out of my attic and are not in my house.
The issue is that they are up behind the rafters and purlins of my timber framed barn, and this time of year they are making quite a bit of guano. That is ending up all over my tractor and implements that are stored in there. Not only is it kinda gross, I'm worries about the sickness that can come along with it.
Had anyone had any luck getting them to move out of a barn structure? There is no way to seal this up right enough to exclude them. I tried an ultrasonic repeller, but that didn't seem to work, or maybe I needed a bunch more of them.
I thought about possibly starting a fire in a burn barrel or on a grill to see if the smoke would bother them, but I don't know that it could get concentrated enough to have them leave, and then they would just come back when the fire was out.
Any ideas?
Wondering if anyone has any ideas on how to get bats to move out of a barn.
To start, I don't want to kill them. I like having them to keep the bugs down and I know the little guys are endangered. Also, I'm very glad that they moved out of my attic and are not in my house.
The issue is that they are up behind the rafters and purlins of my timber framed barn, and this time of year they are making quite a bit of guano. That is ending up all over my tractor and implements that are stored in there. Not only is it kinda gross, I'm worries about the sickness that can come along with it.
Had anyone had any luck getting them to move out of a barn structure? There is no way to seal this up right enough to exclude them. I tried an ultrasonic repeller, but that didn't seem to work, or maybe I needed a bunch more of them.
I thought about possibly starting a fire in a burn barrel or on a grill to see if the smoke would bother them, but I don't know that it could get concentrated enough to have them leave, and then they would just come back when the fire was out.
Any ideas?