shoura Posted July 5, 2010 Share Posted July 5, 2010 I left the WIR door open while the girls were in the garden yesterday (usually I close it so the dogs don't get in and eat chicken poo! ) When I went to put them back in the run there were 3 magpies inside it !!! Great panic and flapping ensued but they don't seem to have done any damage---they had spotted the food I suppose but I gather they can also eat hens' eggs? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WitchHazel Posted July 5, 2010 Share Posted July 5, 2010 Yes, magpies do steal eggs. We lost a nmber of fertilised eggs from a coop on our allotment. At first we thought it was one of the chickens, but when a couple of dummy eggs went missing we realised it was a predator. We set up a camera in the end, to discover whether it was magpies or rats. It was magpies. We put up a "curtain" of chains over the pop hole, and that seems to have stopped it. (Our allotment coops are wooden). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
