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post #1 of 10
8/19/12 at 12:34pm
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Yesterday the birds are out ranging, just gave the big birds some peanuts. Went inside for a few minutes, come out and no birds to be found. I call for them, the little ones come running from the other side of the house. But where are the big birds??

Well Iam looking all over, calling for them. One comes from over by this car rear end I have covered up with wood.

I look between the fence & shed, White feathers everywhere... My heart just sinks :(  So I look around the back, and theres this Hawk munching on our Leghorn.

 

So, very sad day..... lost our bird that just starting giving us eggs.

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post #2 of 10
8/19/12 at 2:54pm

hit.gifsad.pnghe.gifhit.gif  I have had some hawk attacks myself.

I have 1 guinea pig, 2 dogs, 1 cat, 1 Orpington, 1 Wyandotte, 1 Red Star, and 1 Hamburg.

                                                                          I love chickens!!!

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I have 1 guinea pig, 2 dogs, 1 cat, 1 Orpington, 1 Wyandotte, 1 Red Star, and 1 Hamburg.

                                                                          I love chickens!!!

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post #3 of 10
8/21/12 at 1:40pm
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Dont think we could take "some" attacks...... Ones too much.

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post #4 of 10
8/21/12 at 6:33pm
Sorry for your loss.Hoping that hawk dies young!
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post #5 of 10
8/21/12 at 6:53pm
So sorry

Mom to 2 kids, 2 cats, 1 fish, and 11 girls (Haley - banty, Nutmeg - Buff Orp, Teddy - Red sex link, Bella - Tetra Tint, Pepper, Salt and Dot - Dominiques, Summer - Welsummer, Cheeky and Muffin - EE, Freckles - Speckled Sussex) And the wife of one very wonderful husband who puts up with me and my chickens!

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Mom to 2 kids, 2 cats, 1 fish, and 11 girls (Haley - banty, Nutmeg - Buff Orp, Teddy - Red sex link, Bella - Tetra Tint, Pepper, Salt and Dot - Dominiques, Summer - Welsummer, Cheeky and Muffin - EE, Freckles - Speckled Sussex) And the wife of one very wonderful husband who puts up with me and my chickens!

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post #6 of 10
8/21/12 at 7:25pm

I am so sorry for your loss. 

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post #7 of 10
8/22/12 at 3:23am

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Edited by chickortreat - 8/31/12 at 8:34am

Samuel Adams:  "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen."

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Samuel Adams:  "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen."

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post #8 of 10
8/22/12 at 5:08am
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Thanks guys,

It's pretty hard seeing that after raising her from a peep. Now's there only one left from our first four(relocated two roosters). Shes acting sad... But getting use to the two little ones more, its her only flock now. 

 

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Originally Posted by chickortreat View Post

I'd have read him from the Good Book....No way would I have watched a hawk eat a chicken and not shot him.

When I looked behind the shed, he jump up on the fence, looked at us and flew off.

But, Iam with you....... 


Edited by KoopDeVille - 8/22/12 at 5:44am
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post #9 of 10
8/23/12 at 11:15am

I just had my first hawk scare.  I had not seen one around before.  About a minute after I let the girls out I heard a lot of commotion, luckily I was right by the door.  I ran out to see the chickens panicked in a corner and a hawk fly up to the tree in our yard.  It just sat there and looked at me, so I threw a rock at it (and actually hit it) and it flew off.  Four of the five chicks came running to me but I couldn't find the BR.  I figured I would get the four safely in the pen and then look for the other.  I was pretty freaked!  The BR was safe luckily, she hid in some thick bushes.  After I got them all back in their pen they huddled together under their ramp.  I could hear the hawk up in another one of our trees.  I usually leave one of my Jack Russells in the yard to keep the cats out, but now I wonder if he will keep the hawk away. 

 

KoopDeVille, I am sorry you lost one of your chickens. 

My urban farm animals(the list keeps growing): two Jack Russells (Batman and Peanut), a Dalmatian (Ty), a White Easter Egger (Luna), a Buff Orpington (Ginger), a Blue Wyandotte (Hazy), a Java (Dottie), an Easter Egger (Ana), a Backyard Special (Weeble), a Cuckoo Maran (Coco), a Buff Brahma (Queenie), a Partridge Rock (Shirley), a French Angora rabbit (Benjamin Bunny), and two Pygora goats...

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My urban farm animals(the list keeps growing): two Jack Russells (Batman and Peanut), a Dalmatian (Ty), a White Easter Egger (Luna), a Buff Orpington (Ginger), a Blue Wyandotte (Hazy), a Java (Dottie), an Easter Egger (Ana), a Backyard Special (Weeble), a Cuckoo Maran (Coco), a Buff Brahma (Queenie), a Partridge Rock (Shirley), a French Angora rabbit (Benjamin Bunny), and two Pygora goats...

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post #10 of 10
8/23/12 at 4:19pm

Ugh. So sorry you had to loose one of your chickies to those pesky hawks. I know how you feel. I live in Idaho, the state with the most birds of prey! Joy. 

-Audrey
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