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RAVENS...GOOD/BAD/WHO CARES? #5957896 10/02/15 07:01 PM
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So more and more lately I have seen Ravens (big sob's, not little crows) on and around my property. The last pig I killed left a big blood puddle, and they were gathered around it sipping it up like they were at a wine tasting. I hear them all the time, and wonder if I need to get rid of them or just treat them like any other bird.

So whats the deal? Any downside to them being around? Any different than the buzzards that clean up our gut pile? Voodoo? Diseased?


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Re: RAVENS...GOOD/BAD/WHO CARES? [Re: shadams] #5957930 10/02/15 07:30 PM
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Originally Posted By: shadams
So more and more lately I have seen Ravens (big sob's, not little crows) on and around my property. The last pig I killed left a big blood puddle, and they were gathered around it sipping it up like they were at a wine tasting. I hear them all the time, and wonder if I need to get rid of them or just treat them like any other bird.

So whats the deal? Any downside to them being around? Any different than the buzzards that clean up our gut pile? Voodoo? Diseased?


Ask your question again after you've watched them eat thru a nest of duck eggs, or quail eggs & hatchlings . . . .

Re: RAVENS...GOOD/BAD/WHO CARES? [Re: shadams] #5957945 10/02/15 07:45 PM
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Yea thats the kind of stuff I was looking for. I have never seen one of these guys till about 5 yrs ago, all of a sudden they are everywhere I go. See em at work, at home, on the ranch. Maybe I just wasnt looking but then someone said "Shoot every one you see" and hence the question.


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Re: RAVENS...GOOD/BAD/WHO CARES? [Re: shadams] #5957974 10/02/15 08:03 PM
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Ravens.


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Re: RAVENS...GOOD/BAD/WHO CARES? [Re: shadams] #5957979 10/02/15 08:07 PM
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Is a Raven not a Crow?

Answered my own question -

This is a crow...



This is a raven...



Can you tell the difference?


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Re: RAVENS...GOOD/BAD/WHO CARES? [Re: shadams] #5958001 10/02/15 08:24 PM
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Haha...yea like I said, big suckers. Almost as big as the vultures when they are all together, not nearly as ugly though, kinda bad [censored] to be honest. But if there is a reason to get rid of them.....


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Re: RAVENS...GOOD/BAD/WHO CARES? [Re: shadams] #5958118 10/02/15 10:15 PM
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I do believe that ravens are protected period, just like hawks, you can't kill them.


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Re: RAVENS...GOOD/BAD/WHO CARES? [Re: shadams] #5958141 10/02/15 10:34 PM
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Re: RAVENS...GOOD/BAD/WHO CARES? [Re: shadams] #5958160 10/02/15 10:56 PM
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Wait till you watch them hunt dove chicks in live oak trees.

Re: RAVENS...GOOD/BAD/WHO CARES? [Re: shadams] #5958297 10/03/15 01:10 AM
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Re: RAVENS...GOOD/BAD/WHO CARES? [Re: shadams] #5958650 10/03/15 11:45 AM
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Thank our Mexican friends for the protection.

Re: RAVENS...GOOD/BAD/WHO CARES? [Re: Cast] #5958882 10/03/15 03:12 PM
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Originally Posted By: Cast
Is a Raven not a Crow?

Answered my own question -

This is a crow...



This is a raven...



Can you tell the difference?


Breast size? peep


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Re: RAVENS...GOOD/BAD/WHO CARES? [Re: shadams] #5958993 10/03/15 05:05 PM
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I like ravens. They're vert smart birds.

Re: RAVENS...GOOD/BAD/WHO CARES? [Re: SnakeWrangler] #5959371 10/03/15 10:58 PM
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Originally Posted By: SnakeWrangler
Originally Posted By: Cast
Is a Raven not a Crow?

Answered my own question -

This is a crow...



This is a raven...



Can you tell the difference?


Breast size? peep
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Re: RAVENS...GOOD/BAD/WHO CARES? [Re: SnakeWrangler] #5960418 10/04/15 07:56 PM
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Originally Posted By: SnakeWrangler
Originally Posted By: Cast
Is a Raven not a Crow?

Answered my own question -

This is a crow...



This is a raven...



Can you tell the difference?


Breast size? peep


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Re: RAVENS...GOOD/BAD/WHO CARES? [Re: shadams] #5960505 10/04/15 09:04 PM
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Those Ravens are smart, i can sit in my blind for an hour watching the deer, but we have dead tree by the feeder and a Raven always lands in it and usually within 30 seconds he notices me in the blind and flys off.

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