Flight Control® Max is a registered product to repel Canada geese and is widely used on golf courses, around community lakes and airports.  The product comprises 9,10 anthraquinone together with a carrier, surfactant and inert ingredients.  The product can be sprayed on building surfaces, driveways and grass surrounding lagoons at a rate of one-half gallon in 6 to 20 gallons of water per acre.

Consumption of grass by geese or absorption of active ingredients through the foot web or toes induces transient nausea.  Birds recognise surfaces treated with Flight Control® Max by their UV perception and move to non-treated areas.

Preliminary calculations show that application of flight control to a 40-foot wide perimeter of a ten-house in-line layer complex would cost between $350 to $500.  The persistence of the repellant effect would depend on rainfall and mowing, but should be approximately one month in duration.  This should be adequate to displace resident Canada geese and other web-footed and other birds but would require additional applications during waterfowl migration.  Based on the cost of $125 per acre, the investment in treating blacktop driveways, perimeters of houses, loading areas of feed mills and areas surrounding feed silos can be calculated.

Flight Control® will be present in Booth 1640 at PEAK 2023 in Minneapolis.  Additional information is obtainable from Billy Hackett, Arkion Life Sciences, BHackett@ArkionLS.com.  Subscribers are referred to the Flight Control® website that can be accessed by clicking onto the logo on the right side of the Welcome page.