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Cockatoos are eating my new decking!
amyk:
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--- Quote from: XOIIO on March 17, 2016, 12:21:18 am ---Talk about a unique problem, Have any pictures of the damage? I'm curious what they can actually do lol.
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There have been in the news before. They can be incredibly destructive. I can recall someone losing some timber siding off their home a few years back. Looked like half a dozen people went crazy slashing the side of the house with chainsaws.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sulphur-crested_Cockatoos_damaging_a_shopping_centre_facade_4.jpg
cdev:
What is in that stuff - why do they eat it?
--- Quote from: amyk on July 16, 2020, 02:44:09 am ---
--- Quote from: Brumby on March 17, 2016, 02:57:19 am ---
--- Quote from: XOIIO on March 17, 2016, 12:21:18 am ---Talk about a unique problem, Have any pictures of the damage? I'm curious what they can actually do lol.
--- End quote ---
There have been in the news before. They can be incredibly destructive. I can recall someone losing some timber siding off their home a few years back. Looked like half a dozen people went crazy slashing the side of the house with chainsaws.
--- End quote ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sulphur-crested_Cockatoos_damaging_a_shopping_centre_facade_4.jpg
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Cyberdragon:
--- Quote from: cdev on July 16, 2020, 02:03:57 pm ---What is in that stuff - why do they eat it?
--- Quote from: amyk on July 16, 2020, 02:44:09 am ---
--- Quote from: Brumby on March 17, 2016, 02:57:19 am ---
--- Quote from: XOIIO on March 17, 2016, 12:21:18 am ---Talk about a unique problem, Have any pictures of the damage? I'm curious what they can actually do lol.
--- End quote ---
There have been in the news before. They can be incredibly destructive. I can recall someone losing some timber siding off their home a few years back. Looked like half a dozen people went crazy slashing the side of the house with chainsaws.
--- End quote ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sulphur-crested_Cockatoos_damaging_a_shopping_centre_facade_4.jpg
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Parrots like to chew on stuff (like dogs), not sure why but when you have them as pets you have to give them chew toys (usually wood is what I've seen, one Youtuber even had a whole untreated wood plank under the desk for the bird and you could hear CRUNCH CRUNCH CRUCNCH) or they'll start nomming on stuff.
dbctronic:
I was a self employed handyman for years. One day, I went to a customer's house to set up a work list. Among the items was a chair arm clawed up by their gray cockatoo. The customer left me to pick up a phone call, leaving me to inspect the chair with the cockatoo watching nearby, raising and lowering its crest (sign of nervousness).
"Whatcha lookin' at?" it said.
Without looking up, I calmly said "I'm looking at what you did".
"Uh oh," it said, and turned its back on me. The owner told me that it was worried I would scold it, which it hated.
You will find it difficult indeed to fool these birds for long, with any ruse. Animal behaviorists rate them about as intelligent as five year old children. Make the deck undesirable to them (creosote?? Yeesh!!!) or offer a dire threat of some kind (fireworks, flying lead, pet hawk, Mr. Creosote).
jogri:
I've had some success using bile soap against magpies that just wouldn't stop eating window seals
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