protecting ducks from raptors

[chickens really]

Wow thats wild. Ive seam them beat one of their own to a pulp

Yes...My friends friends dog had pups outside and the crows or Ravens killed them all..

 

[Magnolia Ducks]

I love my crows. They do a good job of protecting my ducks. Crows and Ravens are very different birds. I don't know if we have Ravens in the US. Definitely not here. I had Ravens in the UK and they are 3 times the size of crows.

 

[Miss Lydia]

We have crows here and I have never had any trouble from them. I sure do appreciate when they are around.

 

[austroberta]

Netting over the run is best. I am not in a position to do that. I have crows and have been feeding them and they have been protecting the ducks.

Crows are amazingly efficient about chasing raptors away. If one crow sees a hawk, within less than a minute there is a whole posse of them to chase it away.

 

[austroberta]

We have crows here and I have never had any trouble from them. I sure do appreciate when they are around.

We have crows too. They hang out at the top of the Redwood tree and scope out any trouble that comes. I really enjoy having them around, even though they can be noisy. They're so very smart.

 

[bluemerle]

I live in an area that is home to a lot of magpies and crows; they rule the land out here. It's not %100 - occasionally there'll be a hawk or buzzard that flies through - but they are both really good at chasing competitors out of their territory.

Further up the road lives what I think is a red-tail hawk, and occasionally you'll see her in a stand-off with the magpies or crows over roadkill. One day I drove by and saw her standing with one talon firmly on a roadkill rabbit, and she was surrounded by a circle of magpies all waiting to steal it from her.

 

[bluemerle]

Oh, but you do have to be very careful if you have babies (of any kind) around! Crows have to feed their young, too. The average adult duck should be too big for them, but a brood of ducklings waddling around unprotected is too much temptation.

 

[Miss Lydia]

And chicks . Although I have never had crows down on the ground here. Usually just swarming when hawks are around. I hang predator tape all around our half acre fenced bird property looks tacky but pretty much keeps hawks at bay. Although I am pretty sure a hawk got my little OEGB rooster about a month ago in part of the property that didn't have many tapes hanging.

 

[Magnolia Ducks]

Yes...My friends friends dog had pups outside and the crows or Ravens killed them all..

it must have been really small dogs...

 

[chickens really]

it must have been really small dogs...

Puppies