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If you want a good protective rooster, I would recommend a Silver Laced Wyandotte, big and not afraid to fight off a predator, but not too friendly in my experience.
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Our crows are an integral part of our hawk defense here and I couldn't do it without them. The dog helps but he's getting older now and less attuned to aerial threats, but the crows are vigilant and very aggressive to the hawks. They forage in a part of the meadow that the chickens rarely go, so they don't come into any contact but even if they did I wouldn't worry one bit about disease.
You can establish crow feeding stations around the perimeter of your land by placing pedestal feeders with field corn.
We have breeding/nesting crows on our 20 acres. Just got lucky I guess. The neighbor puts out a lot of corn for turkey and deer and the crows like the dividends.
I have crows keep the hawks away. In 7 years I've lost one chick to a hawk. They normally get chased away. But now the crows steal about 5-6 eggs a day, and dip the neighbor's bread in the chicken water. They are pretty annoying and there's more of them.So, the hawk showed up today, and I noticed that the only birds brave enough to stay in the yard with it were the local grackles, so I had an idea. I was wondering, will they do the same job as the crows in keeping hawks away?