Christine, I remember that story about your chicken, sure was a lucky one. I imagine it adds to your chicken feed cost having those crows around all the time trying to eat it.
I got one of the crows with the hose this afternoon, I was watering the bed at the end of the house as it has been quite dry here, with no rain in site for at least another week, it was up in the cotton wood tree annoying me with it's cawing so I put the hose on power stream and aimed it in the tree, didn't take him too long to take off.