Crows! :\

[StephieSky]

Thank you!! You are all so kind! I will look for trick eggs in the arts and crafts shop. Can't wait to see his face! Hihi!

I would love to see the crow peck that trick egg lol He'll be so puzzled hahaha!
Crows can recognize and remember human faces but I bet he's not clever enough to figure out what up with the egg!
They will also work in pairs or groups when raiding. Don't be surprised if your crow brings along a friend to post as a sentry nearby. They're truly amazing.
I think they're so neat and I even feed them but I'd be very concerned about them being in my chicken house. Wild birds can carry numerous parasites that can be passed on to your chickens.

 

[ken-t]

put up some bird houses, martin or other kind. hang a bird feeder around to atract other birds they'll keep the crows at a distant. but the crows WILL help keep hawks away.

 

[thedragonlady]

put up some bird houses, martin or other kind. hang a bird feeder around to atract other birds they'll keep the crows at a distant. but the crows WILL help keep hawks away.

Love my big crow guards, but my tiny friends the wrens do an awsome job with mosquito control in my coops. I have 7 wrens nesting in houses and baskets in my coops now. All those houses and baskets are dusted with permethrin , and I put out water high up with Wazine just before the babies fledge. Last summer was a bad one for fowl pox in S.C., but not a mosquito, or bug in sight here, thanks to those tiny souls.You also know if anything is lurking due to the wrens' chirring, warning calls.

 

[chicken tows]

We have a few pair of crows here. Each year a chick or 2 or 3 would end up on the ground, no feathers, bald baby with a huge beak. We would cart them off to the bird rescue. Last year we raised one of the babies. It was a delightful bird, always landing on my shoulder when I was out side, and stealing the neighbor boys marbles and burying them around the yard. He like to put his food on the ground and cover it with a leaf, we called that dog food, cuz the dog was not far behind.
It migrated in the fall, and has returned this year, distinguishable by injured wing from parental attach. This year it is not friendly, but not afraid either. I see if caring around chicken eggs, I am not sure if the crow or the blue jay is going into the coops and breaking the eggs open, but having 50+ hens and getting 3 intact eggs a day is becoming a problem.

 

[ken-t]

Now they've had a taste of the eggs it will be next to imposable to stop them. But I would close the door and put in a small door for the chickens. (a doggie door sort of) that you can open and close.

 

[mick10940]

I had crows in my yard. Every day we were woke by them, until my new chicken / late blooming rooster started to chase them off. He would always look out for the girls and keep them and their eggs safe. I just gave him away a few weeks ago to keep the peace with next door and the crows are starting to come around.

 

[StoverCreek]

We have a large murder of crows. They keep the pair of mating hawks at bay. The chickens free range. They listen to the crows. I would be so much more worried about them if the crows weren't around to guard against the hawks. Leave them alone and be thankful they are there.

 

[thedragonlady]

We have a large murder of crows. They keep the pair of mating hawks at bay. The chickens free range. They listen to the crows. I would be so much more worried about them if the crows weren't around to guard against the hawks. Leave them alone and be thankful they are there.

YES !!!

 

[bettythegreat]

I have 2 seventy foot cedar trees in my backyard that crows nest in, there are lots of trees like that in my area with crows. Hawks and other birds of prey patrol the area on a daily basis, the crows without fail chase the hawks away from the neighborhood. I have a part of my backyard fenced off just for my ducks. My danes discourage most critters away from the backyard during the day and I get the ducks in their eglu at night which is critter proof, and my cats keep other cats away from the duck yard which they know how to get into, they are more scared of the ducks then the other way around, lol. Has worked out well so far, my ducks are about 10 weeks now so not laying eggs except for one that was an injured stray, she just started laying eggs this week but lays them under the shower curtain-covered wire run off the eglu behind a wooden box, in the grass.

 

[crowinncluckn]

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What kind of rooster is he? I have one that looks like him.