How to rid huge barn of birds?

[Fuddyduddy1952]

Any pictures don't do justice. My wife is so conservative. I'm lucky in that regard though, for her birthday recently of all things I wanted to give her, she wanted a new Rubbermaid dish drain board!

The designer was Mark Bolender. It's the only one in Virginia. He's in Silver Creek, Washington.
"Mark Bolender is the foremost authority in building and designing Mountain Trail courses. As a world-renowned trainer in the discipline of Mountain Trail."

 

[bigtiller]

My wife is so conservative. I'm lucky in that regard though, for her birthday recently of all things I wanted to give her, she wanted a new Rubbermaid dish drain board!

You're lucky you knew what she wanted.
Mrs-tiller's B'day is this weekend and she says she wants nothing. I just can't do nothing.

 

[ning]

You're lucky you knew what she wanted.
Mrs-tiller's B'day is this weekend and she says she wants nothing. I just can't do nothing.

I got my wife a battery-powered staple gun for Mother's Day
Incidentally it's for putting netting up to keep swallows out of certain areas under the deck though it's kinda too late now but we'll finish the job after they leave this year and be ready for next year.

She was very happy with the gift because her wrists have issues and she can't use the traditional Arrow T50 staple gun, and the bigger U-nail shooter is too heavy to use overhead.

 

[drssg]

Long story...but now I can tell the short version.
Wife & I lived here 45 years, we love the country life but too many people encroaching, too much traffic. We still love being on a secondary road still nice & now grocery, hardware, tractor supply, etc. 5-10 minutes away.
This place is available 16 miles (30 minutes) away, 125 acres off of a paved road almost no traffic. New 4.3ft home (never lived in) way off so completely quiet. All around 100s acres in conservancy. Too much to describe, 17 horse stalls, stocked pond, water & power everywhere, 1 arena is an acre. Large streams.
Google this address:

4178 Headens Bridge Rd
Bedford, Va. 24523

I couldn't sell our current place, wife loves it. So at 72 & 71 I can't imagine 2 places. We wouldn't rent either home. I could buy it no problem.
About 100 acres in hay, some in fenced paddocks. Someone could board horses, rent stalls, sell hay. There's water everywhere & wells. 22KW generator. State of the art obstacle course for horse training (only one in Virginia...it was about a Mil).

I googled that address, and there must be some unusual circumstances involved.

They built an amazing place ten years ago, built a very nice home and never lived in it, and now it's for sale. Puzzling.

And your biggest concern was how to get the birds out of the barn!

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

I googled that address, and there must be some unusual circumstances involved.

They built an amazing place ten years ago, built a very nice home and never lived in it, and now it's for sale. Puzzling.

And your biggest concern was how to get the birds out of the barn!

The owner apparently has "stupid money" as they say. All this was built for the daughter who moved out of state. He has 17 properties that I know of. Build as a dream IMHO.
It's like retro-mod cars an owner builds, has $300K in it, now the selling appeal is a small audience & l lucky selling it for $10K.

 

[drssg]

The owner apparently has "stupid money" as they say. All this was built for the daughter who moved out of state. He has 17 properties that I know of. Build as a dream IMHO.
It's like retro-mod cars an owner builds, has $300K in it, now the selling appeal is a small audience & l lucky selling it for $10K.

Ah, I can see that. There is a similar place near me. The father supposedly invented the bar code. He built an amazing equestrian facility for the daughter. Then the daughter moved to Europe, because that's where the really good trainers are.

The price I saw listed was $1.4M. If that's accurate, it seems incredibly cheap. Just for the land, that works out to about $11K/acre. A very small percentage of buyers would see the value from all the money they spent to create the place.

 

[WinterDeere]

There is a very large renovated barn, about 60ft x 80ft x 40+ ft ht that's full of birds...barn swallow I think. Bird droppings everywhere, Gambrel roof style no coupolas. Anyone know how you could keep them out? It's full of rafters very high up, has hay loft with end doors, very large drive through ground level with rolling double doors each end. I think impossible to seal doors and stall windows tight. Hundreds of birds, mostly mud nests on walls & high up.
Way too much for cats plus they couldn't get up where they are I'm thinking.

You need Nate Romanowski!

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

Ah, I can see that. There is a similar place near me. The father supposedly invented the bar code. He built an amazing equestrian facility for the daughter. Then the daughter moved to Europe, because that's where the really good trainers are.

The price I saw listed was $1.4M. If that's accurate, it seems incredibly cheap. Just for the land, that works out to about $11K/acre. A very small percentage of buyers would see the value from all the money they spent to create the place.

100% correct. I bought adjoining land here a few years ago for $10K/acre which was a good price. This land lays nicer, mine is closer to development.