This guy's chickens kept getting targeted by hawks, so he started feeding local crows. Now he has an army of crows that patrols his property and chases the hawks away.

When you have a big problem always hire good mercenaries...

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@chee244 Crows are incredibly intelligent. Crows have an uncanny ability of identifying & remembering the faces of people who are kind (or alternatively unkind) towards them. They are loyal to those who reward them. This chicken farmer tapped into Nature’s design. 🐥

Nature’s version of “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.” 😂

Professional pest control hawks in Japan to safeguard against crows that damage electrical infrastructure

My crows do the same. Except they’re protecting the squirrels.

Bro just ordered a hit in the bird community 😹

I did this fifteen years ago when I got ducks. They cleaned out two hawk nests on the property and an eagle nest. I still have ducks, and have never lost one to a raptor. I've learned so much watching crows, very complex social order and behaviors.

Crows are great. Just don't piss them off as they have great memories. They have protected my chickens many times.

Dude - crows are loyal and will bring you gifts. Just don't kill one. The crow posse will haunt you forever.

When the Chickens needed a Hero. He will appear. CrowMan. He fights for Justice and The Chicken way

same. they protect my chickens too 🖤

I had a tragedy happen to me a few years ago. I love birds. There was one young crow on a power line, a low neighbourhood one and as I was driving by with my car it floated down almost in slow motion to land on the ground right in front of my car wheel just as I ran over it. It was like a total suicide. The parents were there, I could hear them cawing, and I was almost in tears because I love animals and never kill them, except for a couple of deer I have hit with my car over the years, and it was just a baby crow. I went home nearby and grabbed a pair of gloves and a bag, picking it up and taking it to be disposed of. I was very sorry, explaining to the parents that I didn't mean to do that, but there was truly no time to react, and that they would have another child. I was really emotional about it. Then a day or two later I was chopping firewood at my parents place and the two crows settled down. The father perched on the neighbours fence about 15 feet away while the mother landed closer, about 6 feet and started cawing so softly to me, as if she was trying to console me, to tell me that it was okay, I didn't need to feel bad. I talked with her a bit and prayed for them, and then they left. I knew then that crows are very special birds.

My Chicken Guard Airborne Team crows found a bald eagle trying to move into a pine tree overlooking the chicken run. It was an epic noisy affair, but the mυrdеr ran him right out of the neighborhood.

The ravens were friends with my chickens and they would come share our kitchen scraps with them and they chased off bald eagles at least twice that I saw and probably a hundred times that I didn't see

Here is a video of the 2 baby owlettes. One on upper left, one in the branches on the right. Keep watching as the dad swoops in with a squirrel he caught to feed them and show them hunting. This must be why crows protect squirrels. Crows are very intelligent.

The Crow

The ingenuity of the White man, is second to none. Our “suicidal empathy” is our biggest downfall.

@VectorHey true story, my crows protected me hand feeding chipmunks, my kittens, they come say hi everyday.

I have a great horned owl family out back and the murder of crows swarm them. Here's a video I took of the crows harassing one of the baby (not so baby they are getting bigger)owlets. We love the owls and the crows are so bad.

Wait until there are 50 crows and you can't feed them all. There is a reason you are not supposed to train them.

The first thing that came to mind. Please please please tell me this guy's name is: Rick. 😜

Dude found his army

Watch out crows! It starts like this, win win trades, but a few thousand generations later...

My property is protected by a pair of large ravens. I'm not too worried about getting some ducks this summer.

God bless Americans

They love dog kibble. I fed some for awhile at my last place. Awesome birds.

Lmao I feed the crows peanuts and they go nuts for it and the hawks don't come near and now I have bunnies and everything out there eating the peanuts and no hawks allowed

Crows saved a hen from a fox two months back. Hen has a bum wing now, but she survived. I suspect the crows were expecting to steal a meal from the fox, but they jumped the gun, because when the fox dropped the hen, she wasn’t dead yet. I picked her up and carried her back in a towel. She isolated herself from the other’s chickens for about three weeks. She’s a survivor

An army of crows at his command. That’s air power!

You can always tell when there's a hawk in the area, the crows are relentless, and loud!

I love hawks but to protect my chickens using the crows is brilliant. Just today in Marche Italy I saw hooded crows going after a local hawk