i hate magpies

[karminski]

had my first visiter within the run tonight a bloody magpie :evil: took me about 30 mins to get it out { must invest in a net } although thats not bad first thing thats ever got in there in 4 yrs .
i have been meaning to replace the netting on the extension for some time but i cant really afford the good stuff for a few weeks and the netting up at the mo is just the cheap bog standard fruit cage net which isnt that strong anyway i stupidly left some eggs outside the run in the flower pot and i couldnt work out why this magpie would not leave the door way alone i went of and came back and found it had got into the extension of then via a very small gap in the net to get to another egg i had also forgotten about its all my falut for leaving the eggs out but god i could of killed this magpie it drove me mental in the end i had to try and get most the girls in and then leave all doors open to chase it out the run , i must remember to double check the whole run in the morning before i let the girls out but my poor bantams could not make this bird out and why it was going crazy in thier home i wont be leaving eggs out in the furture .

 

[Stapfam]

I have a secure run but the one time I collected eggs and left them out- The magpies got them.

One thing about magpies- If they are in your area- you won't have crows.

 

[karminski]

i have seen plenty of crows along side magpies in the allotments they tend to fight for everything saw 2 mating this morning while out with the dogs , i wasnt planning on re doing the netting today but at least one thing it aint raining :lol:

 

[Margaid]

I hate magpies too as they rob the small wild birds nests. We also have large flocks of crows, one of which took a magpie chick from it's nest last year. Yesterday some blackbirds were mobbing an owl perched in some bushes - couldn't see what sort of owl as I'd taken my specs off. Has anyone lost mature hens to birds of prey - we have loads of buzzards and owls around.

 

[foxy]

We have a lot of buzzards here but as yet they have never taken, or tried to take any poultry. We control the magpie and crow population here by larsen traps and shooting, a magpie will take ducklings and chicks.

 

[karminski]

i patched the whole lot up last night and will order the stronger netting during the week i havent seen the bird yet this morning probably to freaked out as i had the broom in my hand :lol: it wasnt looking to bright after being chased up and down for 30 mins .

 

[chrismahon]

Used to have a Magpie that bullied little Boris and his Leghorn Bantam girls off their corn treat. When I went into the food store it would fly down and wait on the far Orchard wall until I had gone. But this one time I went into the food store and the Magpie again landed on the wall, but I came out with a loaded .22 HW97K air rifle fitted with 4 -16 mag Mil-dot telesight instead of corn. Shot it a 30 yards between the branches of two trees and was 10mm off point-of-aim. Knocked it straight off the wall stone dead -my best shot to date!

 

[Margaid]

How do you "dispose" of the magpies once you have caught them in the trap? OH has muttered about getting a gun of some description - if a good enough shot would an air rifle do the job? A neighbouring farmer had trouble with crows attacking his lambs (detail are a bit gory) so had someone come to shoot but the crows wouldn't take the bait of a dead lamb, they just stayed in the trees - the hunter said shooting them in the trees was dangerous but have no idea what sort of gun he was using.

 

[chrismahon]

Shooting skyward with anything is dangerous unless you are certain the spent shot can come to no harm Margaid. Shotgun pellets can go 400 metres. Air rifle pellets 100 metres. Magpies have extremely good eyesight and usually fly off long before you are in range with even the best air rifle. However their eyesight in low light conditions is poor. The time to shoot them is at first light when they start calling and you can determine their position and shoot them with an air rifle fitted with a telesight with a 30mm light tube, which gathers the little light most effectively.So you can see them but they can't see you. If you Larsen trap Magpies you need to shoot, or wring the neck of, the decoy bird as they get tame quickly and cease to attract.

 

[charliefox]

hi all caught dozens of em in a larsen trap despatch method a good wack on gate post does the job best way to catch crows is with a ladder trap same despatch method you can decoy both useing the right bait and an air rifle .uncle fox

 

[karminski]

they might be a pain in the butt but i wont be killing any of them i dont kill any living creature this was all my fault for leaving 2 eggs on show but there must be something at the mo cause i am feeding wild birds and the food is gone within minutes they must all be straving mum left a frozen loaf of bread by the greenhouse today and forgot about it but within the hour half of it was over the garden never known birds to take frozen bread .