I watched a crow carry off something white and thought it was a splash Silkie chick but it turns out it was a bunny! We had to get a ladder to remove the headless bunny from our roof. Earlier today a crow got a newborn bunny before I got the litter in a nest box and it took its head off but this bunny was already a couple weeks old so we had just taken them out of the nest box a few hours before, thinking they would like more space to run around (the nest box is about 1'x2') and explore. When we checked the rest of the bunnies in the run, there was another one that was headless so the rest went back in the nest box. This is the first time I have ever had crows get bunnies. We have nets over the ducklings because I know they are light enough to grab but I was shocked to see a crow fly to the roof with a baby bunny. I took in the Silkies and Sizzle I put out yesterday and we have the net over the bunnies now. The Silkies lost several chicks, presumably to crows, so I confined the hen with the 5 remaining chicks inside a Soil Saver compost bin that I was using as a coop for my pair of Call ducks before I gave them a pen of their own.
I would really like to shoot these **** crows! We have a neighbor that shoots cats with a pellet gun and he may have shot at crows because they take off if we clap. They have been getting eggs but now they are going after live animals. I wonder if there is a better way to reduce the crow population and keep them out of my yard. Eating the heads off three bunnies in one day has made them more unwelcome than usual.
