• FARTYSHARTBLAST@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    This is wrong!

    You should never feed birds bread because it does not have the nutrients they need to stay healthy, feed them bird seed instead. Crows are actually often fond of dog food too.

    Is there a CrowBro magazine or community out there? I loved that subreddit.

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      1 year ago

      My mom left some plain potato chips at my place shortly after I moved in. I wasn’t going to eat them, so every few days, when I saw some crows sitting on the telephone line in the backyard, I’d leave a chip or two so they’d like me. But I knew it wasn’t healthy for them so when the bag ran out, I got some raw unsalted cashews and started leaving those instead. The crows stopped coming to my backyard almost immediately. I know the nuts and seeds are healthier, but I think they only wanted the tasty food with no nutritional content. Same, crows. Same.

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          1 year ago

          In this case, raw is a misnomer. The packaging on the cashews says raw, but that just means they haven’t been roasted. They were still steamed, to neutralize the poison.

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      1 year ago

      Not like city crows eat bread all the time anyway because it’s surely not something that’s easily found in every trash container.