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1chicken · Jul 25, 2008

does anyone out there have a mag pie trap? or plans how to make one? i hate the damn things and i want to get ride of them. there eating the dog food right out of the dogs dish on the porch. any help would be apprecated thank you 1 chicken

Anonymous-0 · Jul 25, 2008

I use them to sharpen my shooting skills, use low cost .22 cal. Buy'em brick[5000 rounds] at a time.

Anonymous-0 · Jul 25, 2008

I shoot them with the 12 gauge, and also destroy any nests I find on my property. I hate magpies too!

I put my dog's dish inside her dog house, and occasionally I find a dead magpie inside her pen. The dog will not eat magpies, so they must REALLY taste and smell bad, considering some of the other things the dog WILL eat! I feed my cats inside an animal carrier inside a shed. The cats do not seem to want to tangle with magpies, but after I covered the animal carrier with a blanket, except for the small opening for the cats, the magpies apparently are afraid to enter the carrier.

Pycoed · Jul 26, 2008

Google for "Larsen trap" which is a simple cage type trap that lots of us use in UK. Easy to make, hard to catch the first bird! Use eggs & some hay made into a nest & leave it by a tree but in full view. Once you have the first bird caught, keep him as a decoy & others will be easy. You'll need a little shelter for him plus a drinker & some food daily.

Knocking back the magpies makes a big difference to the numbers of small song birds around the place.
in UK magpies are smart: once you've shot 5 or 6 even with a silenced .22, the others treat the place like Israeli air space & you'll be lucky to get another until next year's young dumb ones come along.

Anonymous-0 · Jul 26, 2008

I like the gun suggestions,but I use a co2 pellet gun and works fabulous.

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