One unhappy newbie

sounds like you need to secure a safe enviroment for the remaining chicks. Sorry to hear of the loss but glad you broke leg chick healed well!!

Someone told me it was illegal to kill a hawk in my area so you might want to check your area before you get the gun out.

Sounds like you need to put them in a run with covering overhead. You'd probably go to jail longer for killing a hawk or owl then a person nowadays. You bought all pullets so i think they are young. If there isn't a older chicken telling them to run when danger is close there's not much you can do. They one's that are alive probably figured it out. 

I lost my absolute favorite sweet baby duck at 8 weeks to a dastardly Red tailed Hawk and I also was told that if they are preynig on your flock (as long as you are zoned a farm or ag)...you can shoot them without reprocussion...personally...the way I see it, If you kill a hawk and no one knows about it and your babies are safe...(I now keep my little ones in an enclosure with overhead cover ) how is anyone going to prosecute you? As long as you are being a responsible Chicken/duck owner and providing them with a safe home, you have every right to protect them...as far as I am concerned!  Good luck...and cover up those babies if you can!

No offense meant, but shooting hawks because the chickens are not provided with a properly protected run is TERRIBLE.  We had some neighour's who shot hawks because they couldn't be bothered going to the effort of protecting their flock. Or... now get this... because they ate their puppie's dog biscuits!!!

Our chicken run was covered on the top and when the hens had their chicks outside of it, I always stayed outside to keep an eye on them.  Our flock were the only ones in the neighbourhood that had a covered run, with a coop that can be shut at night, with a fence that was buried into the ground with logs on top.  In 10 years we never lost a single bird to hawks, foxes or goannas (Australia) but our neighbours did lose birds regularly to these predators.

Hawks are magnificent hunters and it is our fault if they eat our stock not theirs.  PLEASE do not shoot those hawks as you can live in harmony with them. Like I said, no offense meant but it makes my heart bleed to see diminishing populations of wild life slaughtered needlessly.

I was worried about the Red Tail Hawks so over the weekend I purchased two Bourbon Red Turkeys apparently they are the best flock protectors going.

My neighbors that have them have no lost one bird ever due to the Turkeys. They are so cute and Bourbon Reds are very intelligent and very friendly.

I have 26 chicks coming next week and I don't want to lose any. I have invested 2K into my chicken house. I didn't want our yard to look like a farm. Here is also a photo of our coop, it is half completed. 

Here are photos of my poults. I believe I have a Hen and a Tom.