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Dealing With Unwanted Wildlife on Horse Properties

Birds and small mammals attracted to barns can cause disease and damage. Here’s how to discourage or remove them from your property.
Stable Management Extra, Volume 32: Dealing With Unwanted Wildlife

Some wildlife, such as insect-eating barn swallows or the herd of deer grazing in your back pasture, can be desirable. But others, such as skunks, opossums, and rodents, can act as vectors for diseases ranging from leptospirosis to rabies. Out-of-control unwanted critters can also damage property and structures or create unhygienic messes.

In this volume of Stable Management Extra, our sources will describe ways to deter unwanted visitors and prevent the complications they can cause.

  • How to eliminate wildlife habitats on your property
  • Species-specific control recommendations
  • Using humane live cage traps

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Alayne Blickle
Alayne Blickle, a lifelong equestrian and ranch riding competitor, is the creator/director of Horses for Clean Water, an award-winning, internationally acclaimed environmental education program for horse owners. Well-known for her enthusiastic, down-to-earth approach, Blickle is an educator and photojournalist who has worked with horse and livestock owners since 1990 teaching manure composting, pasture management, mud and dust control, water conservation, chemical use reduction, firewise, and wildlife enhancement. She teaches and travels North America and writes for horse publications. Blickle and her husband raise and train their mustangs and quarter horses at their eco-sensitive guest ranch, Sweet Pepper Ranch, in sunny Nampa, Idaho.

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