Crowes can sort you out with the right bird this Christmas

It’s a cold winter’s morning in the west Tipperary countryside and a sparrow hawk makes an appearance low in the clear sky. Immediately, a few hundred turkeys take a break from their foraging to collectively rush towards the invader, shouting their warnings before the hawk has second thoughts and heads for the hills, leaving the turkeys to resume free-range life.

An idyllic existence, in some ways, if it weren’t for the knowledge of what’s on the menu, so to speak, for these birds and their counterparts before too long.

“It wouldn’t be Christmas without turkey and ham,” TJ Crowe says with a smile.