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BROOD PATCH, DOUBLE YOLKERS AND MORE . . .

Q Help please?! Crows stealing eggs from the nesting boxes! They have to walk through a partly-open gate, through the run, and into the chook house and jump up to the enclosed nesting boxes (cat litter boxes). How can we stop them?? TIA.

Jodie.

Keep the gate shut until laying has finished if possible and eggs are collected. Having netting or chicken wire across the top

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