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  1. clocker19

    How did your flock annoy you today?

    They have fresh, clean ice water in all the waterers and what do they drink? The poopy foot bath water. 😑
  2. clocker19

    Limiting feed times to discourage sparrows

    The entire run is in shade. This is the desert. Metal is still blisteringly hot in the shade. It's tough to understand how extreme it is if you haven't lived in it. It's crazy. I don't like it. It causes all kinds of problems. We were sparrow-free for a while today! They were flying around very...
  3. clocker19

    Can I make feed less appealing to sparrows?

    I will take a picture of the door later, it's hot right now. It wasn't a mouse nest. Our mice don't nest high up in trees like that. The nest was about 12 feet off the ground (I hurt my shoulder trying to dislodge it). It looked like this. It was well made. I don't know how long it had been...
  4. clocker19

    Limiting feed times to discourage sparrows

    Those are metal and it's 115F here during the day. It would cook the feed and burn the chickens. It's hard to appreciate what happens to metal in the desert heat if you don't live here. We use oven mitts to open our car doors. Metal anything inside the coop and run is a big no no. Feed is not...
  5. clocker19

    Now what?! Wild birds stuck in netting

    Does the bird ribbon bother your chickens at all?
  6. clocker19

    Safety of using bird netting on inside a run?

    We're having a lot of trouble with sparrows so we're trying to cover our entire run with bird netting but it's hard to secure it in some areas because parts of the run are hard to reach from the outside. The run is made from steel welded wire fencing with a 2"x4" mesh. If we attach bird netting...
  7. clocker19

    Limiting feed times to discourage sparrows

    How much time per day does feed need to be available? I need to limit access to food because sparrows are eating the pellets from our port feeders. The sparrows hang around all day. I've put up bird netting but it has problems of its own and it hasn't completely stopped them. We live in the...
  8. clocker19

    Can I make feed less appealing to sparrows?

    I must be stupid because I cannot figure out how to use bird netting over a door. It gets tangled and caught on everything and takes forever. I found a sparrow nest - empty but I removed it anyway. It was really well padded inside with feathers from my chickens!!
  9. clocker19

    Can I make feed less appealing to sparrows?

    I went out there five times so far today, plugging holes I didn't even know were there. There must have been seven or eight sparrows in there at once, jumping from dish to dish, eating all the food and bathing in (and pooping in) the foot baths. I'm really starting to hate these guys!
  10. clocker19

    Young emu feeder...dumb sparrows

    That makes sense. I have a pellet gun but we can't fire those off within city limits.
  11. clocker19

    Can I make feed less appealing to sparrows?

    AMEN! I have dogs but they don't go outside much in the summer because it's too hot. They just do their business and come right back in. The hens are scared of them anyway so the dogs don't go in that part of the yard. The neighbors' cats sometimes come around but again it's hot now and I think...
  12. clocker19

    Can I make feed less appealing to sparrows?

    I need to rebuild the run with hardware cloth but that is a project for fall or winter. It's too hot here to have any metal inside the run. I will try adding some fake owls outside the run later this month. Getting back to my original question, there's nothing that I can add to the feed that's...
  13. clocker19

    Young emu feeder...dumb sparrows

    Wow, that's an expensive one. I don't have a cat. I don't mean to be ghoulish but how do you kill them? I avoid killing if I can but if I need to I can do it. Can you do it quickly?
  14. clocker19

    Young emu feeder...dumb sparrows

    Do you trap and release them? How far away do you take them to be released?
  15. clocker19

    Can I make feed less appealing to sparrows?

    I bought some more bird netting. It seems to help although sometimes it just traps them inside rather than keeping them out. I need to find all the little places they might still be getting in.
  16. clocker19

    Can I make feed less appealing to sparrows?

    Can you link to the traps you use?
  17. clocker19

    Can I make feed less appealing to sparrows?

    I know. ☹️ It's DIY enclosure. It needs to be improved. That is a project for the future. Hardware cloth is so expensive!
  18. clocker19

    Can I make feed less appealing to sparrows?

    They sparrows are getting in from the ground and the doors, not from overhead. There are tarps over the top of the run.
  19. clocker19

    Can I make feed less appealing to sparrows?

    We have big pit vipers here that eat chickens. They're pretty scared of snakes!
  20. clocker19

    Young emu feeder...dumb sparrows

    Can you link to some effective sparrow cage traps?
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