Troyer Horizontals & Starlings

[Kenneth Hicks]

I was wondering if any of ya'll have trouble with starlings building in your Troyers. I have a Lone Star gourd rack with 8 vertical gourds and 4 Troyers. Also, I have 4 Troyers underneath my Quad Pod housing. It is these 4 underneath the housing where I am seeing starling activity. I am considering moving these 4 over to the gourd rack with the other gourds because all of the martin activity has been on the gourd rack. There are currently 7 or 8 martins at the gourd rack and my thought is that maybe the starlings will be less likely to build there. Call it strength in numbers.

[geneinmurphy]

You never mentioned what type entrances you have on your troyers. If you don't use some type SREH, you're asking for trouble. Starlings love the Troyer gourd. I use WDC entrances on my Troyers and it keeps out all the flying rats....

[Kenneth Hicks]

The openings are the round entrances. Is there any way to modify the round entrance on a troyer ?

[Guest]

Kenneth,

I have the same problem with one of my sites, and I use all crescent entrances. Last year I had starlings continue to figure out the crescent entrances on the Troyers.

This year I purchased a new excluder entrance (sold by the Birds Paradise) that you slip into the end of a Troyer gourd after you saw the current entrance off. I will see how that works this year.

Joe

[klcretired]

Kenneth,
Like you , I also had alot of S&S problems w/ the round hole entrances at my site but since i made the switch to all sreh's several year's ago I now don't have that problem anymore, in answer to your question , try to convert all that you can to the sreh's , you should be able to get some help converting from someone at the pmca or contact Sandy Bunn who makes a product that should work for your situation.

I hope this post helps you

[Kenneth Hicks]

klcretired,

Can I reach Sandy at the PMCA?

[klcretired]

Kenneth,
You have to email me at my personal email address below so we can talk.
I made a mistake by posting a foreign url on this website and i apologize to The pmca for not thinking , it won't happen again I will be more careful .

[Sharon - Central TX]

Kenneth,
We have the horizontals under our quad pod housing and have the specially made tunnel entrances for them with the WDC opening. I have seen starlings try several times to get in and they have been unsuccessful. The openings are also made by Andy Troyer.
Sharon