08-14-2017, 08:19 PM
Oh dear! What terrible news! If you awoke suddenly at 5H40, then it was doubtless a shot which caused it. Sadly, it sounds like Koori has met a sudden passing. Tobi, I send you my profoundest condolences. You were so attached to Koori and s/he was such a character. We discussed Koori quite a lot on this forum.
To answer your question, Catherine, lots of people would kill a crow. I don't want to upset Tobi at this time (so Tobi, you may not want to look - or otherwise only look if you feel the need). Here are some answers about "Who would kill a crow?", plus a few comments:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wD4_Y7NNG_Y
This is absolute rubbish. I had a flock of sheep for many years (still have two mature ewes) and never, ever had any attack from crows (and we have plenty of them!). The video shows a dead lamb with parts eaten, but a) the lamb is not a new born, so b) it must have died later and then been eaten as carrion. I always did my best to take ewes inside for births, but sometimes lambs were born during the night unexpectedly and we had surprises in the morning! But never, not once, did I see a crow go near a newly born lamb. The only risk would be from a fox smelling the blood, but that never happened to us, either.
http://www.shootinguk.co.uk/guns/air-rif...ntrol-4541
A typical hunt-and-shoot viewpoint, even claiming that the gutless shooting of an innocent bird is a "sport"!
http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/local-ne...le-9310144
The shooting of crows is mostly done by gamekeepers and farmers rather than roaming, trespassing hunters. This article tends to further the farmers' propaganda, but there is this important sentence:
"Research data is scarce. One scientific account of 297 lamb deaths in Argyll, in the early 1960s, showed that 48% died of starvation, 22% were stillborn, and 9% died of disease. Crows attacked 48% of the lambs, but only 17% were alive at the time." In other words, 48%+22%+9%=79% were already dead. The hill farmers who leave their sheep unprotected would do better spending their time better looking after their newborn lambs, as 48% dying of starvation is appalling.
Crows are an essential part of nature and are curious, intelligent birds. It is a disgrace to shoot them and quite unnecessary.
To answer your question, Catherine, lots of people would kill a crow. I don't want to upset Tobi at this time (so Tobi, you may not want to look - or otherwise only look if you feel the need). Here are some answers about "Who would kill a crow?", plus a few comments:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wD4_Y7NNG_Y
This is absolute rubbish. I had a flock of sheep for many years (still have two mature ewes) and never, ever had any attack from crows (and we have plenty of them!). The video shows a dead lamb with parts eaten, but a) the lamb is not a new born, so b) it must have died later and then been eaten as carrion. I always did my best to take ewes inside for births, but sometimes lambs were born during the night unexpectedly and we had surprises in the morning! But never, not once, did I see a crow go near a newly born lamb. The only risk would be from a fox smelling the blood, but that never happened to us, either.
http://www.shootinguk.co.uk/guns/air-rif...ntrol-4541
A typical hunt-and-shoot viewpoint, even claiming that the gutless shooting of an innocent bird is a "sport"!
http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/local-ne...le-9310144
The shooting of crows is mostly done by gamekeepers and farmers rather than roaming, trespassing hunters. This article tends to further the farmers' propaganda, but there is this important sentence:
"Research data is scarce. One scientific account of 297 lamb deaths in Argyll, in the early 1960s, showed that 48% died of starvation, 22% were stillborn, and 9% died of disease. Crows attacked 48% of the lambs, but only 17% were alive at the time." In other words, 48%+22%+9%=79% were already dead. The hill farmers who leave their sheep unprotected would do better spending their time better looking after their newborn lambs, as 48% dying of starvation is appalling.
Crows are an essential part of nature and are curious, intelligent birds. It is a disgrace to shoot them and quite unnecessary.
