Keeping Away Hawks?

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Frindizzle

Frindizzle

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Hi! This morning, one of my chickens were attacked by a Dark Morph Swainson's Hawk. I was wondering if anyone has anyways that work to keep hawks away, so more of my chickens are not attacked? Thanks!

Oh, and the chicken survived. Carmel wasn't even injured, thanks to my mom chasing the hawk off!
 
Larger, smaller dog would have the same problems as a chicken
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We've put up netting over portions of our backyard. My husband ran guide wires from our covered patio to trees in the yard and then we went back and pulled the netting over the wires and attached with pull ties to the fence. We're not through due to lots of rain this past week. We went from drought to flood, lol. Our goal is to get the whole or most of the backyard covered enough for them to be safe (about a 1/3+ acre). Our rooster does alarm us but our goal is to give them enough netting overhead to have a good chance of running to the coop without getting caught. I've had three hens attacked by a hawk. So far with lots of TLC they've lived. It's not a pretty site when they get a hold of them.
 

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