Barns and Birds

How do you keep the birds from pooping on your tractors?  I've got a pole barn with trusses, and they sit up there out of range of the barn cats, and take aim on Persian Orange #1. 

An old timer I used to work for in tobacco, would kill a couple of birds and hang them in his tobacco barns, said the other birds would not come in if there were some dead birds in the barn?????

I've seen the "hot rods" placed in buildings. birds land on them and the chemical burns their feet. I can't see that working on new birds or keeping any of them away. I've seen the chicken wire and smaller wire stapled up, and that seems to work the best. but the birds can and will come in and sit on the tractors and other stuff and still poop on it, just a lot less splatter. and I've seen where they take and pound nails thru 2x4's close together, and fasten those boards to the tops of the rafters with the points up, the birds won't land on the pointed ends of the nails. I've seen plastic owls and coyotes and hawks and cats and even blow up dolls hanging in buildings. I've seen those mirrored party balls hanging up sending out moving reflections about the building. I've seen those laser lights in buildings (I've used those, and seems to work for now) use the laser lights outside too to try and scare the coons. and I've seen where they hang tarps from the ceilings, and when they pull whatever inside, they lower the tarps by a rope before leaving the building, then pull the rope back up and the tarp when they go to use what ever they had covered. and I've seen them send the kids out with .22's with bird shot in them to kills the birds. about the only things I've seen that works the best is the combo of the wire and tarp set ups. good luck! 

"and I've even seen blow up dolls hanging in buildings"

What kind of a building is that?
Yup, bought that baby to keep the birds out! Sure ya did Ain't no birds in your bedroom, is there? LOL! Darrel

There has been a commercial product of spikes pointing upward. Maybe called Bird B Gone or Bird Away. Made for the purpose of keeping birds from roosting.

Simpler and sturdier than a chicken wire ceiling you can cover both faces of the trusses with chicken wire or I'd prefer 1/2" wire mesh to be smaller than the sparrows and swallows that like sheds. That can get expensive. Drywall and plywood to cover the trusses on both faces would work, just don't leave the birds a surface to land and sit on. The bird spikes might prove more practical than covering the trusses. Trusses covered with plywood would be considerably stronger than the plain trusses.

Maybe a radio tuned to a talk radio station might annoy the birds enough they won't stay. And might entertain the critters in the other end of the shed. Explosive noises will probably chase the birds but annoy those critters you want to be happy.

Gerald J.

Two cats in my barn no birds. No bird poop.

Have used TWO things with good success.  Put fishing line (the cheap plastic stuff) hanging down from the door frame.  The birds like to come in close to the top of the open door.  You fasten them 1" apart with washers on the bottom to have weight to them.  Birds (and bats) hit the fishing line and won't go in after that.

#2 option... works THE BEST.....  Learned this from the golf course.  Put a radio in it and leave it on.  Doesn't matter what is on, talking or music.  The birds STAY OUT.
Actually happened at the course where I golf.  Had ALL kinds of troubles with the swallows.  Put a  radio in there with music (medium volume) and they have stayed OUT now going on 5 or 6 years.....go figure.