cluckbok Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 Ooh they make noise early in the morning and they upset our girls this morning! Our neighbour told us they hear the magpies in the morning and they think that it's them that upset our girls this morning. They were bok bokking in their run and wouldn't put a sock in it!! They only did it for less than 5 mins but trouble is it was 7am and then they were at it again at 7.30am! They were at the run door looking! Matilda was the main culprit. My neighbour said it's because magpies steal baby chicks and raid nests for the eggs. My girls didn't lay today either Perhaps I need to hang my jewellery tree off the garage roof!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjp Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 they set one of mine of last week at 5:30am.it sound like some sort oa alarm call there been a vary large crow about the last month or so that set them of a day or earlier but that was tea time so wasn't so bad when she clucks an alarm call she can crack concrete Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smanners Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 It's the heron that upsets my girls They all duck down in unison and then squawk and growl for about 5 minutes afterwards Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjp Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 mine don't mind the herons but they stop and watch the planes go over Especially the Emirates one. Its one of the bigger ones we get also so the lowest live under the flight path to Birmingham Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beach chick Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 mine take absolutely no notice of other birds (grrrrr! why not think about chasing starlings and sparrows away from the layers pellets? and I'm sure they could take on a crow if they got together...) they also ignore dogs, cats and the lawn tractor - in fact, I even mow inside the run on the tractor, and they just follow behind waiting to see what they can find in the short grass!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crumbs Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 I have the same problem with the magpies. Every morning at about 5.30 - 6.00 they start up, and set the girls off. I think we have so many because next door leave out vast sacks of butchers off cuts for the foxes, which the magpies also eat, so their population has exploded. I get up when the girls start, sort their food out and let them into their run, then go back to bed. I'd like to shoot the magpies but am too woossey. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cluckbok Posted July 17, 2009 Author Share Posted July 17, 2009 The girls were OK this morning, there wasn't a magpie in sight! I hope they stay out of the way! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 18, 2009 Share Posted July 18, 2009 The crows around here do pinch the ducklings even when they are quite big(half grown) or they will attack and kill them then eat them up! Since gamekeepers are not allowed to keep the numbers under control of ie magpies etc there are def more around. I read somewhere the bird population ie song thrushes etc have really declined by an alarming rate due to the mapies etc indie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
