Is it ok to kill pest birds like finches and doves that eat your feed

[Bryce Thomas]

I think it is Okay to protect your food investment. I like the idea of feeding in am in coop. I have wild birds in yard that go into run even tho I feed them also. ! Bought chicken wire to keep out of chain link fence d area and they fly right through it! So that was money wasted. I don't give as much scratch as I did in cold and that has helped some. It's okay to kill them as there is an abundance of doves here too. Otherwise there wouldn't be a hunting season for them.

Finally someone understands. Me and my neighbor live right next to the highschool we both go too. On every light outside in the school a dove has made a nest there. They produce so much poop. Ever since those 6 doves died I noticed 3 nest mysteriously have to parents. There is so much poop and no janitor is being payed overtime to clean up the shit

 

[Happy hen lover]

I feed them purina medicated adult chicken feed. I tried upgrading them to pellete rather than normal chicken feed, but the tiny sparrows ate the giant pellete feed for her chickens too, and they were SPARROWS. my neighbor also has those 6 doves come and eat up all her feed and she uses chicken wire and everything. I have also done everything I could too. She told me she spends 30 USD a week for giant bags of feed. Her chickens eat less than 5% of the feed, pest sparrows house finches and those 6 damn doves ate up the 95%. She has gotten so sick and tired of the sparrow and house finches she is going to give me all her chickens on april 2nd. She also has to buy different brands of food every week because of those god damn pest birds, it really stresses out her chickens. I also have a rooster and have tried to train him to attack backyard birds that come into the coop that try to eat feed but he doesn't see the pest birds as a threat... I also might delete this threat since it started a chat war

I have changed the way I feed and give them fermented feed in am and they snarf it down so fast there's no chance for pests. I have seen a you tube that he had a feeder he could cover up at night. Do they bug hens all day?

 

[Happy hen lover]

Finally someone understands. Me and my neighbor live right next to the highschool we both go too. On every light outside in the school a dove has made a nest there. They produce so much poop. Ever since those 6 doves died I noticed 3 nest mysteriously have to parents. There is so much poop and no janitor is being payed overtime to clean up the shit

Yes they are gross

 

[Happy hen lover]

Yes they are gross

You almost need hardware cloth to keep them out and depending on your run it can get real pricey

 

[Happy hen lover]

Finally someone understands. Me and my neighbor live right next to the highschool we both go too. On every light outside in the school a dove has made a nest there. They produce so much poop. Ever since those 6 doves died I noticed 3 nest mysteriously have to parents. There is so much poop and no janitor is being payed overtime to clean up the shit

What about the 3 nests?

 

[Ebony Rose]

I don't mind the doves and finches dining at my house. I allow wild flowers to grow here as well, to encourage the finches and butterflies too.
My current chicken population consists of 6 starting/started pullets and 1 cockerel that are 6 months of age, plus an 8-week old group of nine birds (6 cockerels, 2 pullets, and one that I'm on the fence regarding gender), plus a 3-week old group of six birds (I wouldn't fathom a guess at genders on these squirts yet).
The feed store sells feed in great big 40 kg/88 pound bags at $22 a bag.
The wild birds are helping me use up this mountain of feed before it's nutritionally unsound.
I've not had any issues in my many years of raising poultry due to the wild birds visiting.

 

[Bryce Thomas]

I have changed the way I feed and give them fermented feed in am and they snarf it down so fast there's no chance for pests. I have seen a you tube that he had a feeder he could cover up at night. Do they bug hens all day?

No they seem to come for breakfast lunch and dinner and when I am in the coop when they like to eat they seem to get mad at me lol

 

[Bryce Thomas]

You almost need hardware cloth to keep them out and depending on your run it can get real pricey

My coop is 25 feet long, 17 feet wide, and 7 feet tall. they come through the room too. there is no chicken wire, just chain link fence which is that 25 degree slanted square stuff. a 1.5 foot tall 3 foot long chicken wire cost 50 USD. for that big of a coop, we are looking at at least 800 USD. all for some ****lng pest birds...

 

[Bryce Thomas]

What about the 3 nests?

I hope the chicks died. In my ceramics class there is a light where a dove made a nest and even laid an egg. one day the egg fell out now there is a giant egg stain everywhere that ruined some of the kids projects that took weeks to make...

 

[Happy hen lover]

I hope the chicks died. In my ceramics class there is a light where a dove made a nest and even laid an egg. one day the egg fell out now there is a giant egg stain everywhere that ruined some of the kids projects that took weeks to make...

Ok cause your text was confusing on the 3 nest story. Do you hunt?