All the wild birds

[Drumstick63]

I leave my coop door open so my girls can come in and lay when they need to, BUT I have every dove, sparrow etc. getting in there all day and I don’t know what to do I don’t have constant food for the girls because of this also and feel bad about it.
WHAT can I do to keep the wilds out ???

 

[nuthatched]

Build an enclosed run or cover your run.

 

[Drumstick63]

This is their coop. They free range all day, but I want them to be able to go inside if they need to lay an egg.

 

[Egg catcher]

Can you put a smaller automatic/manual door on it to prevent such a big opening? It would be harder for those other birds to go in vs that big door

 

[Drumstick63]

Can you put a smaller automatic/manual door on it to prevent such a big opening? It would be harder for those other birds to go in vs that big door

I maybe could buy the doves and finches can fit thru, so not sure if that would be the answer

 

[Perris]

get an aluminium chain door screen, something like this
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Trintion-A...ef=sr_1_17?keywords=Chain+Fly+Screens&sr=8-17
and hang it on the inside of the doorway (as the door opens outward on your coop). The chickens will learn to walk through it, the wild birds won't. It deters foxes too. And flies. I've been using them for years.

 

[Drumstick63]

get an aluminium chain door screen, something like this
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Trintion-A...ef=sr_1_17?keywords=Chain+Fly+Screens&sr=8-17
and hang it on the inside of the doorway (as the door opens outward on your coop). The chickens will learn to walk through it, the wild birds won't. It deters foxes too. And flies. I've been using them for years.

I’m not in the UK and they don’t have these on Amazon US

 

[Red Mangrove]

I feed my free-range chickens twice a day. The songbirds and squirrels just eat whatever my chickens leave behind. They've never been an issue

 

[Drumstick63]

I feed my free-range chickens twice a day. The songbirds and squirrels just eat whatever my chickens leave behind. They've never been an issue

But do the other birds come IN the coop and eat ? All the wild birds clime in mine and that’s the issue

 

[Perris]

I’m not in the UK and they don’t have these on Amazon US

they have something similar
https://www.amazon.com/Sliver-Alumi...r_1_15?keywords=chain+link+fly+screen&sr=8-15