Dog Health Questions: How do I trap and catch pigeons in my barn silo?

I have a plethora of pigeons in my empty barn silo and thought, why don't I catch them and use them for bird dog training? But, how do I trap them in the silo, and then how do I catch them in a 30 ft high silo?

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Recommended Answer:
The traps are usually not effective if there is plenty of food available in the area (often the case on a farm), so the best choice is to catch them at night in the roost. The best description I've seen is at http://elibrary.unm.edu/sora/NABB/v017n02/p0053-p0059.pdf

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• bird traps youtube how to catch a live bird and videos will come up or email/call an exterminator and ask them how they catch them aliveset up some bird feed under a box that has a twig holding it up when the bird bumps it the box will fall catching it. put a weight ontop so it falls quickly


• I've caught birds in Havahart traps before. Wasn't what I was trying to do, but it's what happened.
  
  But any sort of cage trap can work, especially if they're used to being fed.


• go here
  
  http://www.bugspray.com/catalog/traps/bird_traps.html
  
  http://www.critterridders.com/pigeon_trap.htm