Help sparrows invading my coop

[Cynthia51]

How do you keep sparrows out of your goose feed? I have covered the run in chicken wire and tarps but they still find ways in and eat all my goose feed! Is there something I can put on the coop or by the door that would scare them or deter them away?

 

[SandyRiverChick]

Feral Cats!! I have 3. They scare Rodents AND menace birds away.

 

[Cynthia51]

The neighbors cats don't scare them! The sparrows get into the kennel with the geese and my geese are 7 months old to where the sparrows scare them it seems like. I have put a bucket of corn and seeds in the yard by the bushes and that has slowed them down. It has gotten worse since the weather has changed!

 

[raingarden]

It is legal to trap english sparrows and starlings.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/controlling-house-sparrow-population.1520365/

 

[Callender Girl]

I have given up trying to keep sparrows out of my coops. An open door is an open invitation.

I have gotten used to them flying through the coops and into the enclosed runs. Yesterday was a first. Inside my avatar coop's run was a frantic squirrel who couldn't figure out how to leave the same way it came in.