BBB Becky
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I always watch my hens when I let them out. (One time a hawk took one hen and dropped her...we call her Henrietta the miracle chicken.) Now I have a fake owl and hanging crow. Yes, I do move them round. Does anyone use them?
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I always watch my hens when I let them out. (One time a hawk took one hen and dropped her...we call her Henrietta the miracle chicken.) Now I have a fake owl and hanging crow. Yes, I do move them round. Does anyone use them?
I've told this before here but I bought a fake owl at a garage sale for a $1. It scared the heck out of my chickens more than it did any other bird around the place.
Red tails and Cooper's are thick as thieves around my place (endangered my foot). My hens have to stay in their covered run unless I am going to stay out with them the entire time they are out.
The Coopers are the biggest problem, the Coopers will come in get on top of a standard size hen and hold on with one foot and stab all over with the other. I've had several survive with multiple puncture wounds. The red tails for the most part leave me and my hens alone.
FoodFreedom you are correct about Coopers.
The last attack, WHILE I WAS OUT, the little devil got a hold of a Speckled Sussex and it was a wrestle royale all over the yard with me in pursuit kicking and screaming the whole time.
I still don't know if the hen managed to free herself or if the hawk let go as he figured I was gonna get one good kick in come _____or high water.
He buggered her up pretty good but she survived.