Do I need a release form?
For the contractor?
No, a real contractor should have insurance for handling dangerous exposure, since it’s their business.
So… I found a pest control company that will get rid of the birds (more somehow got inside - probably from the chimney) and will clean, disenfect everything and seal everything so that even snakes can’t get in… the cost is $800.00… is that reasonable? I’m not finding another company around other than critter control which i’m calling for an estimate but haven’t heard back from yet… one other contractor said he could do it, but I don’t think he’s up to speed on what disenfectant kills this poop and I’m not sure he would know how to seal the building…
thoughts?
oh, and guess what? I now have a head cold… hopefully its just a head cold and not something else related to this… although I was only in the building for a minute or two at most … maybe one time and that is it. Does make me go hmmm???
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Yes, that price does sound reasonable for that scope of work. Check their references and if they check out the it’s a reasonable way to go! 
G.
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Pigeons are rats with wings. They must be eliminated. I despise them. We’ve removed them from our indoor via firearm, had a bird dog trainer catch them, and even had a falconer come for work with their bird one time. The most effective was when nature provided a red-tailed hawk one year who had a blissful time when it got trapped inside overnight. Unfortunately, we must have a beacon of sorts. When one group is killed off, another arrives.
To your other question, yes, that seems like a reasonable price for what they’re offering to do. Getting it sealed up is your ticket to long-term success.
That is unlawful. Using rodenticide outside of labeled directions is in violation of federal law. The verbiage is right on the label, if you’d like to confirm.
”‹”‹”‹”‹”‹Sure, you’re unlikely to get caught and even less likely to face prosecution. But it is definitely NOT legal.
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Still in process of cleanup, but they were able to catch and release them …they are still roosting on the roof and gutters tho. Don’t they migrate to warmer temps? That’s going to be a cold spot for the winter
I have an indoor and apparently, they love to nest up in the top of it because it’s warm up there. It wasn’t a huge problem for me because I like pigeons (have raised several orphaned babies), and the poop mostly falls onto the dirt floor where it gets harrowed in when I drag the ring.
But eventually, I had too many pigeons, so too much poop, so I closed up the indoor so they couldn’t get in and out so easily, and within a year or two the population was down to zero in the indoor.
I also drilled holes in the water tubs so the water wasn’t close enough to the top for them to reach it, and that slowed them down a lot, too.
Some of them moved into other barns, but it was much easier to disturb their nests in the smaller barns so they eventually gave up and went elsewhere,. I still have a few who nest in the run-ins, but I’m fine with that. They raise babies until there are about 20 in the fall, but then by spring they’re down to about 10 again.
No, pigeons don’t migrate. And if you catch and release them they will come back…they’re PIGEONS!!!
If you don’t kill them or make life absolutely impossible for them they will be there forever.
G.
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Catch and release pigeons is like catch and release mice or lice or intestinal worms?
You need to decide how important pest control is, even if it means killing the pests.
We used to race pigeons, we like pigeons, but in their place, not as a pest species.
Catch and release, when they will come back to what their pigeon instinct tells them is home, is more stressful and will kill some anyway than, if you are going to stress them anyway trying to run them off, just killing them, hard as killing is for all of us that grew with Disney stories of cute, sweet, humanlike animals.
In the real natural world, life and death are part and parcel of all of our existences.
In a case like that I have no conscience.
