Author Topic: Missing eggs  (Read 10008 times)

frustratedfarmer

  • Joined Mar 2011
  • East Lothian
Re: Missing eggs
« Reply #15 on: March 27, 2011, 06:15:26 pm »
Hi, probably a bit late but friend had a huge problem with crows last year taking eggs- were seen flying off with whole ones. She eventually had to get silver tape stuff and hang strips of it everywhere- had to be extra vigilant to collect eggs twice a day and eventually the crows gave up.
Good luck
Claire  :)

bazzais

  • Joined Jan 2010
    • Allt Y Coed Farm and Campsite
Re: Missing eggs
« Reply #16 on: March 28, 2011, 10:11:36 am »
I hope you solve the dilema - I just got back from the barn a happy man - I thought ours had stopped laying but low and behold found 15 eggs this morning in the top straw barn!! Little minxes.

Our little dog is one for nicking eggs too - he can only just get them in his gob but he does manage it somehow!!

Baz

doganjo

  • Joined Aug 2012
  • Clackmannanshire
  • Qui? Moi?
Re: Missing eggs
« Reply #17 on: March 28, 2011, 12:06:43 pm »
I hope you solve the dilema - I just got back from the barn a happy man - I thought ours had stopped laying but low and behold found 15 eggs this morning in the top straw barn!! Little minxes.

Our little dog is one for nicking eggs too - he can only just get them in his gob but he does manage it somehow!!

Baz
I always send my dogs round the paddock after the hens are back in - they were trained to retrieve on eggs to encourage soft mouths, and if there are any laid out there they find them and bring them to me - except the old girl who drops them from a raised head height (she is a big girl - German Wirehair) until they break for her to snaffle them. ;D ;D
Always have been, always will be, a WYSIWYG - black is black, white is white - no grey in my life! But I'm mellowing in my old age

 

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