Farmer creates terrifying Lady GaGa scarecrow

Published: 8:00AM GMT twenty-seven February 2010

The 7ft tall Lady GaGa scarecrow, finish with intolerable white wig and dress, is keeping birds off Nigel Britten"s wheat crops Photo: PA

The vast twenty-three year old thespian is the impulse at the back of a new range of bird scarers.

Nigel Britten was pessimistic at the proceed pigeons were eating his wheat crops until he and his fiancee watched her on the Brit Awards last week.

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Now the new, 7ft tall Lady GaGa scarecrow, finish with intolerable white wig and dress, is keeping birds off his wheat crops that are used to grow Hovis bread.

Mr Britten, 27, said: "We were shouting at Lady GaGa"s outfit and that surprising wig and articulate about how frightful she looked.

"My fiancee Marti joked that I should have a scarecrow that looked similar to her.

"I laughed and afterwards it occurred to me it was essentially a really good idea.

"We"ve been disturbed about the augmenting insolence of birds on the farms for a little time. I was ripping my hair out since the pigeons were receiving all the corn after planting.

"We"d used normal scarecrows but the old ways only don"t appear to work any more, so we have had to turn some-more and some-more inventive.

"But the new Lady GaGa scarecrow functions a treat.

"We put her up last week and she"s had a conspicuous effect. The birds contingency be shocked of her since they have stayed away.

"I know it"s not a normal scarecrow, but I suspect we have to move with the times.

"I don"t know either it"s the skirt or the hair but the birds daren"t proceed the margin anymore."

The scarecrow is done from a steel support with a wooden base. The hair is done from string wool.

Mr Britten, who functions at Whelan Farm, nearby Warlingham, Surrey, pronounced the pattern had been so in effect he thought a range should be rolled out to alternative farmers.

Whelan Farm is one of over 600 farms flourishing reward wheat to one side for Hovis as piece of the move to utilizing 100 per cent British wheat. The plantation has 1100 acres of cultivatable land.

Mr Britten, who is the partner physical education instructor at the plantation and in use by Sentry Farms, added: "I come from a family of farmers and I have never seen a scarecrow similar to this prior to but it could be the proceed forward.

"I utterly similar to Lady GaGa"s song and find her see engaging - she seems to lift it off.

"But she does see really peculiar and this might be the proceed brazen as far as scarecrows go.

"We might have a little more. In destiny we could move onto alternative frightful people - maybe a Gordon Brown scarecrow would work well too."

Marie Davies, selling physical education instructor at Hovis, pronounced the association was deliberation rolling out the pattern to the alternative wheat farms.

She said: "We"re really vehement by the move to 100 per cent British wheat and are ardent about safeguarding the crops that have taken over five years to perfect.

"The Lady GaGa scarecrow is surprising but it"s been a good success for Nigel and it"s really something we"re right away deliberation rolling out to all the British wheat farms."

Hovis has switching over to flour milled from 100 per cent British wheat for the complete product range oven baked in Britain. It is the initial vital bread code to have this change.

Lady GaGa, genuine name Stefani Germanotta, won 3 awards at the Brits.

The American thespian won International Breakthrough Act, Best International Female Artist and Best International Album.