Robert Cohen, NotMilk.com
November 2011
For the first time in my memory, the dairy industry
prompted a compassionate cruelty-free method of ridding a dairy farm of
starlings.
Bird Gard mimics the sounds of starlings in distress and hearing those
cries, starlings do a 180 degree turn and head somewhere else. This new
product neither kills nor poisons birds, and it is a welcome relief from
past practices.
Have you ever observed a spider weave its web around a struggling fly?
Have you ever watched a bird pull a worm from its hole in the ground? Have
you ever witnessed a cat stalking a bird?
All of the above are nature's way in which animals live and die. These
trapping, hunting, and eating behaviors are natural life and death
experiences for insects, birds, and feral felines.
Feral felines sometimes stalk, catch, and eat starling birds.
Dairy farmers face many challenges, one of which is dealing with starling
birds. Wisconsin horizons are often darkened by flocks of these hungry
winged vertebrates. Starlings become more than a nuisance to dairymen. What
they steal from feedlots is later deposited as gooey starling droppings on
barnyard fences and machinery. A flock consisting of thousands of starlings
simultaneously descends upon open feed troughs and then spread salmonella
and other bacteria to cows as they share the cow's rations.
The United States Department of Agriculture has created a ghastly end of
life scenario for these birds.
Death By Poisoning
There is a toxin that is designed to kill starlings by destroying their
kidney function. This clever biological weapon is called DRC-1339. The
active ingredient, representing 97% of the product is
3-chloro-4-methylbenzamine hydrochloride.
Starlings die horrible deaths from this poison. So too do feral
starling-eating felines.
On November 3, 2011, for the first time in my memory, the dairy industry
prompted a compassionate cruelty-free method of ridding a dairy farm of
starlings.
Dairy Business promoted the clever invention of Todd Weitzman, president and
owner of Bird Gard. Bird Gard mimics the sounds of starlings in distress and
hearing those cries, starlings do a 180 degree turn and head somewhere else.
This new product neither kills nor poisons birds, and it is a welcome relief
from past practices. See: www.BirdGard.com
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