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

[Chicks in VA]

preach dave the bird man

 

[Davethebirdman]

preach dave the bird man

Im not from the Bible Belt, I don’t believe in preachers. Lol

 

[Chicks in VA]

oh sorry lol

 

[chicken1234]

I'd just feed them in the morning before you open the door then put the feed away and feed them again when they go in to roost. If you don't want to or can't afford netting buy a roll of twine or string. You can run string back and forth across your run. Hang some foil plates, wind chimes, fake owl. Lots of options to try first. I had issues with blue jays so I stopped tossing grain on the ground as a treat then put a bird feeder at the back of the yard and attracted the birds to a feeder away from my chickens.

 

[BantammChick]

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

Try feeding them once a day, they will eat it, and then the birds won't have time to get it.

 

[iturnknobs]

OMG!

I am new to this site--was not expecting cruel and evil stuff like this!!!!

Not typical.

 

[Bryce Thomas]

Try feeding them once a day, they will eat it, and then the birds won't have time to get it.

Thank you so much. Is it a trolly feeder, the feeder where the chicken has to stand on it to open it up?

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Thank you so much. Is it a trolly feeder, the feeder where the chicken has to stand on it to open it up?

Treddle feeder

 

[BantammChick]

Thank you so much. Is it a trolly feeder, the feeder where the chicken has to stand on it to open it up?

That would probably work, I don't use one of those, I just keep one of these full in the chicken house, I don't have problems with birds, then I also feed them on the ground once a day.

 

[RosemaryDuck]

Today I killed 5 or 6 doves that were in my run eating all my feed. I killed them because I knew they would come back. I track them by pulling 3 of their tail feathers but I know which to pull so It wont hurt them when they fly around. The 6 doves had 3 tail feathers missing. They came back 5 times and ate all my feed. I feel really bad for killing them but do you guys think its morally OK to kill pest birds that enter your coop? I feel like sh!t right now

Several types of birds are federally protected. While doves are not, finches, song birds, and several others are. You can receive over $5k in fines and jail time as it is a federal crime. They are also protected by the migratory bird act. Find a humane way to scare them off.