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Beefcake · 04-19-2012, 02:36 PM

Anyone here have experience with having to get pigeons out of their attic?

I've returned from vacation to find that a peice of my soffit was blown loose, and now i can hear pigeons up in my attic, and have their droppings all over my deck down below that gap.

My googling and calls to extermination companies have given me mixed messages on both how to get them out, and with respect to health concerns. The common themes for dealing with the problem are (i) shoot them with a pellet gun, (ii) patch the hole and let them just die, or (iii) poison them. My attic is very hard to move around in, and it's particularly hard for me to see down the gap into where the soffit is to just chase them out with a hockey stick (and likewise, would be difficult to retrieve the carcuses if i were to kill them with one of the above 3 methods).

I've read online that the mess the leave behind in the attic can potentially result in serious health concerns, but the extermination companies i've called have said that there's not much to worry about there. Unfortunatly, the 4 "pest exterminators" only do commercial pigeon removal, and don't offer it as a residential service.

If anyone on the board has any experience with this problem and any thoughts on the above, please let me know.

04-19-2012, 02:36 PM	#1
Beefcake Crash and Bang Winger Join Date: Oct 2002 Exp:	Pigeons in the attic Anyone here have experience with having to get pigeons out of their attic? I've returned from vacation to find that a peice of my soffit was blown loose, and now i can hear pigeons up in my attic, and have their droppings all over my deck down below that gap. My googling and calls to extermination companies have given me mixed messages on both how to get them out, and with respect to health concerns. The common themes for dealing with the problem are (i) shoot them with a pellet gun, (ii) patch the hole and let them just die, or (iii) poison them. My attic is very hard to move around in, and it's particularly hard for me to see down the gap into where the soffit is to just chase them out with a hockey stick (and likewise, would be difficult to retrieve the carcuses if i were to kill them with one of the above 3 methods). I've read online that the mess the leave behind in the attic can potentially result in serious health concerns, but the extermination companies i've called have said that there's not much to worry about there. Unfortunatly, the 4 "pest exterminators" only do commercial pigeon removal, and don't offer it as a residential service. If anyone on the board has any experience with this problem and any thoughts on the above, please let me know.