Pigeon Traps

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riverghost

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What are some of the better pigeon traps. I have lots of good places to catch them just trying to figure out which trap to get
 
The ones I have seen are pretty much all the same. I would build one. use 2x2's and chicken wire you can buy the doors if you don't want to make them. I don't think the doors need to be spring loaded.
Dump feed for about one week without trap place trap ontop of feed leave doors open for a few days so they can go in and out then close the doors. Sometimes works good sometimes not so good.
 
I made my traps out of 1/2" screen/fence material from Menards. I will see if I have the packaging left to see what they call it. This stuff is pretty easy to bend into a box I than use hog rings to attach the end panels. I make the doors by cutting a 4"x"8" opening in the end panels, for the "flappers" I cut up old aluminum arrows. A tubing cutter works pretty well. I use pieces about 3/4" long for spacers and the down tubes are 7". Thread the spacers and down tubes onto a piece of heavy guage coat hanger and wire tye them to the inside of the box with the down tubes low enough that they hit the bottom of the opening. Oh yea you have to drill holes cross wise in the down tubes to thread them onto the coat hanger.

I hope that makes sense?! I could take a few pics.

Steve
 
Gatzby, could you add pics, I think I know what you have but a pic is worth 1000 words

Thanks

Chuck
 
I will take a few pics in the next couple days.
 
Pigeon traps

The doors are the key. You can find premade ones at some of the supply store for about 12-15 or so dollars. They can come w/ wooden frame. I used 1/2" galvin. screen. Get the stiff kind and make the box as big as you want. It has to be tall enough so the birds can stand. So make it al litle taller. Try to leave the sides flat and then wire them or cut the last row wire off and bend the extention around the last row on the sides, top, etc.. Like one of the last posts. leave it open by securing the bars up with a rubber band or something for a few days with food and water. Then let the bars down and check 2 or 3 days later. You should have some birds. When they get wise move the trap to another location. Let the frist one rest for several weeks.
 
I made my pigeon trap. It was pretty easy and the cost was under $15. I made a box from 2x2's, put an access on top, covered it in chicken wire. For the doors I drilled a hole and ran a large dowel through it. I then drilled holes in the dowel and slid pieces of old alluminum arrow shafts in so they were long enough to touch the bottom "threshhold". This created a one way door that was light enough to open. I don't have it with me here so I can't really get any pictures.
 
What is a good place to trap them? Old barns?

I made a trap and put it under an overpass by my house that always has a ton of pigeons but I didn't catch any. Maybe I did catch some but a tree hugger let them loose.
 
jeffstally said:
What is a good place to trap them? Old barns?

I made a trap and put it under an overpass by my house that always has a ton of pigeons but I didn't catch any. Maybe I did catch some but a tree hugger let them loose.
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I would try to spotlight the birds in an area like that if it's not too high.

I don't like to leave my traps out like that for the reason that you just stated.

I currently have mine on a roof of a convience store and it's worked well. Back in the heyday, I was trapping 20 a day, but now... Just three or four. :(

Oh well, that's enough to serve my needs.
 
jeffstally said:
What is a good place to trap them? Old barns?

I made a trap and put it under an overpass by my house that always has a ton of pigeons but I didn't catch any. Maybe I did catch some but a tree hugger let them loose.
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I have had the best luck in old barns or silos. One thing that seems to work and I have seen recommended in the past is leaving the doors stuck open for about a week with some feed in the trap. This will get them a little more used to going into the trap. Also, I know this sounds a little crazy but I know of guys that have had luck going into old barns with a bright light and catching them with a big landing net.

Good Luck. If you are able to get some it sure beats paying $5.00 a bird for a pigeon.
 
Jeff,

You can spotlight them, and use fishing nets to catch them.
The spotlight makes them freeze and you can catch them using the net.

I've also found that trapping them is easier if there isn't another source of food either.
(Like in feed silos and such)

Like Esetter said, wire up the doors for a while. They have to be comfortable coming in and out of the traps.
And if you don't shoot them, they will more then likely fly back to the area and there's a damn good chance you'll catch them again.
:)
 
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