Help with crows. Any Ideas?

Starlicide will do the job. You would have to be buddies with an exterminator to get your hands on it. It comes in a bucket. The dead crows will not be toxic to anything that eats them. I would start baiting them up high on top of something your deer can't reach with your feed. Then add the starlicide. I don't know if crows are protected in your state. This might not be legal. Check your laws or do at your own risk. I think the main ingredient that takes em' out is DRC-1339

Good luck

Shoot a couple and hang them up were the other crows can see them. They will stay away they are a very smart bird. I have done this and it works well. May have to do again in the future to give them a reminder of what happens when they trespass.

Virgil,

I bet if he attached a few steel coon leg traps on to the post in the pen and caught of few of the crows by the feet. They would squawk for a couple of days and I bet if their friends came back they'd be diggen ditches to get out of dodge.

I was told Golden Malrin Fly Bait will kill anything that eats it from flys to coyotes would think if you mixed it in with your deer feed away from any non targeted animals it would do the trick 

Txbreeder5,

Like the" thank y'all !" Texarkanas, Tx was where eyes bornd and bred. Transplanted up north.

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I was told Golden Malrin Fly Bait will kill anything that eats it from flys to coyotes would think if you mixed it in with your deer feed away from any non targeted animals it would do the trick 




Yeah buddy. This stuff is a farmers best friend. Have to be real careful is all. It works on anything that eats it!!!!

I agree with Virgil. Shoot a couple and hang them in the open where others can see them. I hung a few around the feeders to, to try and keep black birds at bay also. Can't hurt !

Try changing to a gravity feeder that doesn't have the feed exposed. The birds can't crap on it and you will lose a lot less to them. Also healthier for your animals.

My sympathies for your loss.  And your frustration.


 


Obviously having an affinity for crows, I am a bit ambivalent about this post.  However:  given the alternatives, I would recommend the method that Virgil suggested. 
margin-left:40pxa. Does not present legal issues. (Like anyone needs more of those.)
margin-left:40pxb. Eliminates potential for non-target species contamination.  (Spilled bait=potential for dead animals. Birds are messy eaters, even crows, ever had a parakeet?)
margin-left:40pxc. Most ethical.  I can't see compassionate deer people wanting to chuckle at the suffering of any creature.  (Varmint or pest included. Nobody I know anyway.)
margin-left:40pxd. Yes, they are intelligent birds, the message will resonate quite quickly among the flock.  (and like children, they may need a second reminder)


 
margin-left:200px*Assuming you don't have the time or inclination to switch to gravity fed system.    There are some wonderful and inexpensive types available today.


 


Deer come first.  Bottom line. 

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Yeah buddy. This stuff is a farmers best friend. Have to be real careful is all. It works on anything that eats it!!!!




Not in Indiana it isnt and I was told by TSC that New York either. It has been banned due to cruelty to animals.