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Rosio
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Posted: Thu Jul 24th, 2008 02:11 am |
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| I live in Clover SC and have a 200 plus colony living in a crack between the log walls and chimney of my home. I would like to put up a house near the entry area, then seal up the opening. What size bat house, when is it safe for them to lock the out? Thanks for any help.
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IowaNate
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Posted: Thu Jul 24th, 2008 02:44 am |
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My suggestion is for a minimum of a three chamber bat house, 16" wide and 24" tall with the crevices being no more that 7/8 of an inch since I don't know the species. Bigger houses always have better rates of of success.
By mid August you can exclude them safely without trapping any babies inside by using various "one way door" techniques. There are many posts of ways to safely exclude bats from your home here, and someone will elaborate more fully in this post as well (I hope).
I wish you great success!
Nate
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Joe Spencer
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Posted: Fri Jul 25th, 2008 12:44 am |
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Rosio the first link below within our forum has links to BCI which are helpful for excluding bats. The second link below has photos from a massachusetts exclusion also posted here as Nate had mentioned above. Also use our search box at the top of the forum and put in "exclusion" which will provide more info. Good luck and we'll help in any way we can.
http://www.batnic.org/forum/forum4/84.html
http://www.batnic.org/forum/forum4/457.html
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Rosio
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Posted: Sat Aug 30th, 2008 10:04 pm |
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| I have learned alot about bats since I found this site! Do bats in my area migrate? And when would it be safe to exclude them from my house in regards to pups? I hope to get a bat house up soon. Thanks for all your help.
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cloudman75
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Posted: Sun Aug 31st, 2008 04:57 am |
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Rosio,
I am about 235 miles from you in Georgia, so I suspect you have little brown bats or evening bats, or some of similar size. I agree with what Nate told you about the minimum size. I had a similar problem a few years back and simply waited for the bats to leave. Your bats will probably leave in a couple of months. At that time you could block all the entrance points. Then you could just put up a bat house near their old entrance and most likely they will go into the house when they return about the last of March or in April. If you can't wait for them to leave, then the advice given for a one way door would work. I personally think your chances of relocating them to a bat house would be better after they leave on their own. They will come back next year pregnant and expecting a home. I put up a three chamber house, blocked off my attic louver and they moved right in the following spring. They are still with me in the bat houses each spring after three seasons. Good luck
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Posted: Sun Aug 31st, 2008 04:45 pm |
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| Thanks for the reply. I may have to exclude them sooner because the upstairs of my log house is smelling kinda funky. Regardless I will get a house built and put up soon.
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