[Roughlee Handled]

........... they are  emotionally,very like people you know !..............

Just like chickens and surprisingly  taste like chicken as well.





























Joke.

[poultrygeist]

Could you place your feeder in an enclosed area that the chickens can get into but birds would be wary of entering ?

(cue roughlee posting his videos of magpie leaving his henhouse after stealing food !! )

Rob

[judrop]

........... they are  emotionally,very like people you know !..............

Just like chickens and surprisingly  taste like chicken as well.
  Ha ha I wouldnt know about that never been that desperate !
Ju X





























Joke.

[Vember]

Try a windmills or cd's hanging near the feeders or anything that blows about, it may be enough to put the critters off for a while

[Rubellite]

I have crows/rooks lots and lots. 
Assume they are the ones who give us lice
Bruce the Pointer will scare off the pigeons and doves but he won't chase the crows  :blink: The cats are frightened of them, so that's no help.
When I had a smaller pen I netted it over, that worked.
Now I have to suffer the blighters. Watched them the other day trying to beat down a heron  and have seen them try that with the buzzard too.
They used to go into the chicken shed but now we have a pophole instead of an open door they aren't so keen. Don't know what the answer is, we must have in excess of 100!

[death of rats]

I have crows/rooks lots and lots. 
Assume they are the ones who give us lice
 Don't know what the answer is, we must have in excess of 100!

The answer is extreme violence.
Shoot the crows, or shoot in their general direction.
If they become aware that when the chickens are out there is an evil human with a gun then they go elsewhere. they are very intelligent. All you need to do is point a stick at crows and magpies after they have been shot at and they are off.
In those numbers it is the only answer.
having said that thought they are not crows if there are hundreds of them. the most you get with crows is an extended family.

[Roughlee Handled]

I would suggest you have two options netting over your run to stop the crows or kill the crows with a side opening  Larson trap.

[Rubellite]

Can't net over a 5 acre field
I'll try to get a photo, then you'll see why prevention is futile 

[Roughlee Handled]

opps 5 acres.  mmmmm
http://www.mowermagic.co.uk/acatalog/Hawkeye_Bird_Scarer.html


http://www.stopbirdspestcontrol.co.uk/Predator-Eye-Balloon-Bird-Scarer/17.htm

[Rubellite]

Would they scare you Rough?
Or would you say  you don't scare me 
Wasn't it you that said they get used to things? Do I remember a post with dangly things over pop holes? 

[Roughlee Handled]

 

[Rubellite]

Yes  to you too. But you did have dangly things didn't you?? I'd bought one of those plastic fly strip things that I was going to cut down but had a shift about so didn't try it out.........am I talking out of my bottom? I'm going to bed...............

[Roughlee Handled]

This worked.
  This worked.

[Rubellite]

Ah ha - a carrot bag! Did it continue to work Rough?
Don't think I ever saw the video of the magpie, probably posted before our telephone line got tweaked

[Roughlee Handled]

I got impatient and er larson trapped the two. One got the chop and the other was taken to work (50 miles away) and released.  But the bag worked for as long as I used it .  Magpies are a nervous type.  Do not think crows are as nervous.

Give it a go though.