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| brightmeadow |
Posted - Jul 01 2008 : 2:58:09 PM
I know they eat a lot of mosquitos, and that is a really good thing up here in the summertime, but they've roosted in our century-old barn - luckily we don't have any livestock, just DH's old cars. He keeps tarps over the cars, but I worry about histoplasmosis when he takes the cars out and has to scrape off a layer of bat guano. I know the guano makes good fertilizer but that's not worth much if you can't breathe!
So, does anyone have any experience with relocating bats? The barn probably has a hundred little cracks around the doors, we sealed the windows and eaves with expanding foam insulation as best we could when we re-sided the barn, but it didn't seem to deter the bats from coming in.
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| Jami |
Posted - Jul 04 2008 : 07:26:55 AM
Not to make light of your dilemma, but when I saw this post title I giggled because it reminds me of "how to herd chickens" or something close to impossible like that. Hope you get the situation fixed. I have no advice but am really anxious to see how this progresses. Good luck.
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| SusieQue |
Posted - Jul 01 2008 : 4:45:07 PM
Hi Brenda, it was a big deal for us as they were really bad at our house. They were getting in the eaves of our log home. The smell was getting awful! Then we heard that it could cause lung problems. At that time my grandson was a premie and it scared us to death. Then the droppings started coming in some small cracks and that was it!!! We had tried putting small screen wire over the openings and everything and then they would find another small hole. After all else fell, we called a professional in and had to hire them. It took them coming back out 4 more times to finally get every little spot done. They had to take part of our tin roof off and vaccum up there. (fingers crossed)....we have none at this time. Been "bat free" for about 4 months. |
| willowtreecreek |
Posted - Jul 01 2008 : 3:43:28 PM
You need to check with the animal control because they are actually protected in many areas. My mom worked someplace that had a bat problem and it was a big project to get them removed because the species was one that was protected!
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| Prairie Princess |
Posted - Jul 01 2008 : 3:27:13 PM
Hmm, I'd check with animal control, first. Sometimes they don't like people relocating wild animals unless they give them a head's up first... good luck!!
~Jodi
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