Magpie Madness!!!

freekhead

Hello, ive been having major problems with Magpies in the past couple of weeks. It first started with one or two flying into my back yard eating the dogs food. Now there are 12 of them and they go mental fighting over the food at like half 5/6 in the morning. Also just the other day one of the cheeky feckers hopped his way into my house and started eating my dinner off the bench.

Ive reached boiling point with these feckers. I got a larsen trap from my gun club but they didnt have any live magpies to use as decoys. Ive tried using bread for bait but smaller birds seem to be taking it. Now im using rotten meat that i got from the butchers, wraped in tin foil cause i heard they go crazy for tin foil and the smell of rotten meat, because they are loosley related to grey crow and ravens so they crave meat.

Any susgestions on what i should use as bait?

pancuronium

Sounds to me like dog food or whatever you had for dinner the other day is a good start

EPointer=Birdss

pancuronium wrote: »

Sounds to me like dog food or whatever you had for dinner the other day is a good start

Birdnuts

As the lads above said use the dog food as bait so that you get your call bird ASAP.

deeksofdoom

Why are you leaving the dog food out like that?

As well as magpies you could be drawing rats, you shouldn't be leaving food out like that.

Feed your dogs if they don't eat it take it away, they'll eat it the next time. If a rat takes a whiz in your dogs food bowl the dog will be finished.

Trapping the magpies won't solve your problem, the magpies will keep coming back as long as your leaving food out for them.

terminator2

what kind of a dog have you got anyway:rolleyes:

freekhead

terminator2 wrote: »

what kind of a dog have you got anyway:rolleyes:

i have a boxer dog and he's a lazy git

yea im using rotten meat that i got from a local butcher slightly wraped in tin foil, hope fully this will do the trick and catch my calling bird

dwighet

freekhead wrote: »

i have a boxer dog and he's a lazy git

yea im using rotten meat that i got from a local butcher slightly wraped in tin foil, hope fully this will do the trick and catch my calling bird

put a full egg and a broken one in the trap aswell...

Maggies love eggs;)

Birdnuts

Has anyone ever employed magpie decoys in these traps(for the benefit of those who have trouble getting the initial call bird)?? - and more importantly, do they work??;)

Tackleberrywho

Call bird and UCaller remote??

deeksofdoom

Birdnuts wrote: »

Has anyone ever employed magpie decoys in these traps(for the benefit of those who have trouble getting the initial call bird)?? - and more importantly, do they work??;)

One of my friends shot a magpie and threw it in the trap and he managed to catch a call bird with it.

Eddy Hill

freekhead wrote: »

Hello, ive been having major problems with Magpies in the past couple of weeks. It first started with one or two flying into my back yard eating the dogs food. Now there are 12 of them and they go mental fighting over the food at like half 5/6 in the morning. Also just the other day one of the cheeky feckers hopped his way into my house and started eating my dinner off the bench.

Ive reached boiling point with these feckers. I got a larsen trap from my gun club but they didnt have any live magpies to use as decoys. Ive tried using bread for bait but smaller birds seem to be taking it. Now im using rotten meat that i got from the butchers, wraped in tin foil cause i heard they go crazy for tin foil and the smell of rotten meat, because they are loosley related to grey crow and ravens so they crave meat.

Any susgestions on what i should use as bait?

My opinion -Larsen trap best option but to catch your first call bird /magpie in this case is a prob (at least for me ,first hoodie easier to catch )... Im guessing that some of the birds in your garden are part of a family group most are juveniles and may be easier to trap

put a mirror into the bottom of the cage with the bait (a fresh dead rabbit , red flesh showing , in cage bottom , try early morning when things are quite around the house and keep the dog in )
give it a try, if it does not work get back to me