We seem to have been feeding up the rook population of West Cornwall through our chicken feeding! They are very wiley and wait until we are out of the picture before descending on the chicken run and polishing off all the feed
So, we decided to fight back and erected a scaffold over the run which we then covered with pigeon netting (100mm sqs in tough nylon) Our run is 8m by 8m. We finished it all off yesterday and were very pleased with ourselves
However...... the flipping rooks have discovered that if they fly at full pelt they can get through the squares in the netting Aaaaargh! They do get a bit freaked out when we appear and will bounce off the inside of the netting a few times in their attempts to get out, but they always do
So far we have got through 20kg of feed on, theoretically, 4 non laying hens and 1 cockeral.....