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PikeSki
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Unpaying guests?
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7/25/2006 3:59:34 PM
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I love the lake and all that goes with it. However, I have learned to not like something. My wife and I built a new pier/dock this past winter. I now have about 8 Canadian geese and 3 mallards that have taken a liking to it. They walk up my boat ramp and hang out on the dock. When they have to relieve themselves they walk into the yard and leave lots of 'gifts' for me every weekend I show up at the lake.
Although the ducks are cute and all . . . I don't like cleaning up 100+ piles of duck/goose poop from in front of my dock every time I go to the lake. If you miss a pile you will probably find it later . . . in between your toes.
Anybody know a 'civil' and 'politically correct' way to prevent them from coming up my boat ramp and into my yard?
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Pier Pressure
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Unpaying guests?
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7/25/2006 4:22:34 PM
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You transplant your dock into a deck at a home in the city :-)
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PikeSki
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Unpaying guests?
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7/25/2006 4:35:17 PM
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Thanks for the advice but the mosquitos are much to bad here in atlanta to sit on a dock in the back yard. Any other ideas?
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Maverick
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Unpaying guests?
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7/25/2006 4:35:36 PM
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An owl statue may work .
Or do what I do and throw firecrackers near them (not at them) after several instances of being run off by the firecrackers they will not come back, of course until next year. Problem is I am not htere full tome, so you need a good neighbor that will throw the firecrackers for you when you are not there, but he prefers bottle rockets, LOL.
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Flash
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Unpaying guests?
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7/25/2006 4:42:24 PM
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Invite them to dinner........
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GoneFishin
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CHARGE EM RENT
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7/25/2006 5:18:55 PM
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FOWL do not like to pay for the use of a dock. This is a well known fact that goes back to before the wheel. You might leave them a supply of Depends when you leave to return to Atlanta. Another suggestion would be for Maverick to do a present value of the possible return from selling their droppings. Pikeski, there are so many potential opportunities as they maybe be sacred in some cultures. Maybe. the owl and chimes hanging from the dock would send them to your neighbors dock. Cheers, I know they are a mess!!!!!!
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effie
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Unpaying guests?
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7/25/2006 5:45:41 PM
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Buy a Swan. One reason cities put swans on lakes is cause they chase everything else away. Of course then you have to deal with the swan.
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Feb
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Unpaying guests?
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7/25/2006 5:52:54 PM
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Owls don't scrare guess or ducks, but a 14 ft. rubber gator might possibly have an effect. (Then you have to worry about a bass fisherman puttting it in his live well). I don't know whether electric fences like we used to use for hogs would work or not. I also don't know whether anyone has ever tried rubber or fake snakes. ????
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Chevy4x4
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Unpaying guests?
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7/25/2006 6:09:00 PM
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Well, I know you are looking for a civilized way. But we do live in the south...
I believe a shotgun is acceptable.
It's very humane. Quick, and to the point...
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UPSMAN
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Unpaying guests?
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7/25/2006 6:19:38 PM
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I put a 3ft tall blue herren in the yard and have not had geese since.
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Maverick
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Website
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7/25/2006 6:21:35 PM
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http://www.dec.state.ny.us/website/dfwmr/wildlife/geese.pdf
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AUCATZ
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Unpaying guests?
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7/25/2006 6:48:56 PM
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I've heard an artificial alligator will scare them away also. Am looking for one now. The #$#($# folks renting a condo above us fed them off their balcony for a week and the geese told all their friends. One day a couple of weeks ago, there were 49 - no lie - geese in the front of our place. They tear up the grass, make poo everywhere, and are a general nuisance.
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4Golf
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Unpaying guests?
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7/25/2006 6:57:01 PM
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Put cracked corn on a neighbor's dock. A neighbor you don't like, of course. At night.
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Feb
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7/25/2006 7:01:42 PM
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I know you have to have a migratory bird stamp to shoot geese and ducks. I don't think you need one to shoot neighors putting cracked corn on your dock.
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shaker
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Unpaying guests?
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7/25/2006 7:56:06 PM
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Had the same problem when we had our houseboat. it was 80 feet in length and we stuck out of the dock a long way and the ducks and geese thought the back porch and swim platform was a nesting place. we solved the problem though. we have had 3 houseboats and this has worked every time so hopefully it will work for you. we are having the same problem at our house on the lake too and have not had time to do anything about it yet. here is the solution: find you a realistic rubber snake, the best ones are the big ones that are heavy rubber. they need to be repositioned every week or so, this makes the ducks and geese think that they are alive. the only prob lem with this is that the fishermen that see them on your dock and pier will steal them, have had that happen at the lake house ( never on the houseboats) and haven't had time to replace the snakes. try it, maybe the ducks and geese are no smarter than the ones in atlanta. good luck and maybe i'll try some of the other suggestions too.
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PikeSki
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Unpaying guests?
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7/26/2006 11:08:14 AM
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Thanks for all the helpful hints. After analyzing all of the responses I have decided to:
Shoot whistling bottle rockets out of a fake owls mouth while having it stand on the back of a blow up alligator with a rubber snake wrapped around its tail.
I am also going to put up a 30" electric fence around my property with gun holes in it. From here I can throw hand grenades out into the open water at the geese (without actually hitting them to be environmentally friendly).
I'll let all of you know how this works out and if I can get rid of the geese through this plan.
Thanks for all the advice.
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Edge
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Unpaying guests?
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7/26/2006 11:27:26 AM
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Just put up a sign stating "No Watrerfowl Allowed". Be sure to do one in French - "Aucun Watrerfowl A Permis" - so the Geese can read it. I would use plastic so you can clean the ducks/geese poop off the sign easier. LOL
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LifeTime Laker
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Great plan...
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7/26/2006 3:16:14 PM
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... and great post!!! I needed a chuckle.
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BamaBob3
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Unpaying guests?
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7/27/2006 12:45:49 PM
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After finially getting to spend some time at the lake I had to run the ducks off repeatedly (used a handfill of sand/rocks to spray them like a shotgun pattern). They were coming up my steps from the lake to the pier. I blocked the steps and set a small radio on the peir that played music/talked. They stayed clear after that. I'm curious myself if the music box is what had the effect.
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