Thank you after last year when I cough it in the closed run have not seen it again up till then it was even trying to attack the house. But I dont think I did it I think the hawk nest in the tree they had last year took care of it. We had huge wild fires for 2 years that chased allot of the...
Lots of ganders raise there babies. Sometimes I think there more maternal that the geese definitely more protective. The runner eggs were freshly laid. But the magpie spent all last spring terrorizing them looking for eggs. Then one day it came into the closed run and I was able to pen it in...
Usually when a egg hatches on time mom eats the shell and goo so probably not that. I only put the suggestion up because last year I kept finding hollow runner eggs. One day I walked out into the barn and here was this magpie stradling the egg shell had pecked a big whole in it and sucking...
Hollow shells with just a hole in them can be a Magpie or crow. I had a Magpie (wich is really a crow with blue fethers on the wing) do that to my runner eggs last year.