Daggum Wild Birds!

[RECKLESSTEEGAN2011]

I have a TON of finches entering the coop, eating the food, pooping in the water, and giving the hens black pepper mites, (I lost my ONLY rooster, Moonstruck to this, and a hen named Nolanette!) HELP PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[cavemanrich]

Post a picture of your setup. Hard to give advice in the dark.


WISHING YOU BEST,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,and

 

[CCsGarden]

Sorry to hear this! Do you have an enclosed run?

 

[PatriciafromCO]

interesting subject for me. My open hay barn has a feeding/watering station in it to encourage my birds/fowl to roam and graze more around the property. It attracted a huge constant gathering of local wild birds into the barn area and rafters pooping on everything. Then a smaller hawk showed up and while I was thinking how to net off the barn from the hawk who had started to live in that barn area. I realized the hawk was preying on the wild birds and not my home birds. When the wild birds left completely because of the hawk the hawk also left.. my problem was solved. So predatory birds are not totally a bad thing.