Magpies!

[Millie1]

Bloody magpies are stealing all our eggs ! After weeks of mystery, it only clicked with us yesterday that it's the magpies. Spent today running up and down to the henhouse like a lunatic in an effort to beat the birds to the eggs. Two strikes for me! So, question is, what can we do to stop them? Help!

Thanks

[MissBeehiving]

My neighbour, Gerald turns up with his traps and decoy birds if there even so much the sniff of a magpie round 'ere.

If you don't have a Gerald then I would try CDs strung up near the henhouse to keep them away or alternatively a mustard filled egg. That'll learn 'em

[Millie1]

Thanks MissBeehiving ... don't have a Gerald but we have moved the henhouse, closed the side door of the run where tenet were getting in and are going down about 3 times a day to collect eggs ... The magpies have pretty much stopped ha ging around the food and we've got eggs again! I don't doubt they'm be back so shall bear in mind the mustard filled egg and the CDs!

Ta!

[violetwellies]

I hate mpies. A couple of years ago I heard a little birds distress call, the foul creature was hunting sparrows, in my barn :( They take songbird eggs and chicks and are a damned nuisance. We were leant a,trap for chicken egg theif, but sadly only catch the same hen, repeatedly :) , mmm that looks like a good nest, bless, :o