Sonic Pest Repellers--Okay for Chickens?

[Lynn]

Our new barn is nearly compete, and I want to put some ultrasonic pest repellers in to prevent problems. If anyone has any experience with them, what I'd like to know is: Do they bother the chickens or other fowl? I'd sure hate to drive my chickens away!

I've read a lot of different reviews of different brands and effectiveness--but none of the reviewers on Amazon, etc., seem to have chickens and I can't find any info on their effect on birds.

Thanks!

Lynn

 

[Guinea Goonie]

GOOD QUESTION !!

Hope some one on here knows something about these things.

They do make a light source one, but not for inside, only out.

 

[Judy]

I've used them for about 5 years. I THINK they help with roaches; my home is about 2 years old, in the country, and I've never seen a roach. They seemed to control roaches in the last place as well. I use the dual kind, two kinds of sound waves, supposed to work on both roaches and mice. They have been useless for mice in both homes, so I don't imagine they would do much good in a barn. Cats, on the other hand....

 

[EweSheep]

An old neighbor of mine had a few of those things and it didn't work on city rats or city roaches!

 

[daisy_dukers]

They definately work on city mice as my wife runs a cleaning business and told an EX client to buy some after noticing some chewing going on in the pantry.

She plugged one in near the pantry and had 3 mice run out....Client became EX-Client the same day as telling my wife the story....Wifey HATES mice.....

 

[Lynn]

But has anyone used them around chickens? Does it bother the chickens, or are the chickens unaffected by it, like dogs and cats?

Judging from reviews I've read, the effectiveness really seems to make a difference which brand you use. Some seem to work really well, and others not at all!

Thanks!

Lynn

 

[Empty Nestor 76]

I also want to know if using Ultrasonic Pest Repeller Plug Ins are harmful to chickens. I plan to use it in the coop to keep mice out, but don't want to harm my hens.

 

[Al Gerhart]

Sigh..... the amount of trouble people will go to to solve a very easily solved problem. If you want to prevent rodents from colonizing your coop or barn, do not feed them. It is that simple. Keep your feed in steel barrels, if you have a chicken feeder make sure it is a properly designed treadle feeder that doesn't have to be propped open during training, keep debris and tall weeds away from the barn or coop so the rodents have to travel in the open where their natural predators will see them and the urine trail they leave behind everywhere they go.

Don't hand feed or bring the feed in at night, get a proper treadle feeder. Rodents will happily eat during the day or eat the spilled feed which a properly designed feeder will prevent. Don't poison, that kills off the natural predators of rodents if they get hold of a dosed rodent. Traps work for a few days but most rodents will quickly figure out what is killing their kind and avoid the traps. They do have some use immediately after you installed a treadle feeder as the rats will be starving in a few days and getting desperate.

BYC is filled with old wives tales about homemade remedies like plaster, soda pop, no end to the silly ideas. What actually works is to stop feeding the rodents.

 

[Aunt Angus]

Sigh..... the amount of trouble people will go to to solve a very easily solved problem. If you want to prevent rodents from colonizing your coop or barn, do not feed them. It is that simple. Keep your feed in steel barrels, if you have a chicken feeder make sure it is a properly designed treadle feeder that doesn't have to be propped open during training, keep debris and tall weeds away from the barn or coop so the rodents have to travel in the open where their natural predators will see them and the urine trail they leave behind everywhere they go.

Don't hand feed or bring the feed in at night, get a proper treadle feeder. Rodents will happily eat during the day or eat the spilled feed which a properly designed feeder will prevent. Don't poison, that kills off the natural predators of rodents if they get hold of a dosed rodent. Traps work for a few days but most rodents will quickly figure out what is killing their kind and avoid the traps. They do have some use immediately after you installed a treadle feeder as the rats will be starving in a few days and getting desperate.

BYC is filled with old wives tales about homemade remedies like plaster, soda pop, no end to the silly ideas. What actually works is to stop feeding the rodents.

Any actual answers to this question? I don't have rats in my coop (I use treadle feeders, lock food up, AND have cats). I have rats in my engine! Did several hundred dollars' worth of damage this weekend. We want to try the ultrasonic repellents in my carport. It's not that far from the chicken pasture (there's no chicken feed in the pasture, so no need to lecture me about that). We live in the woods. Animals are in the woods. I'd have to clear the forest to get rid of them, and doing so would just drive them into my house.

Anyone know?

 

[Geckolady]

Any actual answers to this question? I don't have rats in my coop (I use treadle feeders, lock food up, AND have cats). I have rats in my engine! Did several hundred dollars' worth of damage this weekend. We want to try the ultrasonic repellents in my carport. It's not that far from the chicken pasture (there's no chicken feed in the pasture, so no need to lecture me about that). We live in the woods. Animals are in the woods. I'd have to clear the forest to get rid of them, and doing so would just drive them into my house.

Anyone know?

I have the same problem. I'm rural in a former hoarder house that I bought and cleaned up, and have yet to find something that works. They never left. I bought some of those hyped-up electronic rodent repellers that you plug in at Home Depot. It was around $30 for a set of two. Useless. The snap trap right under one of those repellers keeps catching rodents.