hawk prevention

I have determined that we have a family of RS Hawks that have moved into the area. In a previous post, I described a run in with a hawk that dove towards our flock and was only deterred by me swinging at it with a broom; I now know this was a RSH. It had been a month since I had seen any real...

We are currently having trouble with a hawk/hawks. We lost our sweet little sultan chicken to a hawk earlier this week and now I have seen them in the yard every day since. We usually let our girls free range our yard. Have a flock of 6 hens now, a polish, Dominique, welsummer, buff Orpington...

Coming up on my first winter with the chickens, and I’m very thankful for all the winterizing advice I’ve received here. (“No heat, no heat, no heat” is my mantra). I have two buffs and a barred rock. Her sister met an unhappy fate with a hawk last month, and the loss was a hard pill to...

Hi everyone. I am hoping to get some advice/input about keeping a couple of turkeys for flock protection. We currently have 10 chicks (4 weeks old) that we are planning to move to their outside pen in the next few weeks. We do not have any roos (at least we think). Our pen is relatively...

Well, it was bound to happen. I’ve just been praying it didn’t. Last night, 30 minutes before sunset, under tornado watch, very windy, and underneath very limby hickory trees, a hawk, juvenile I suppose, got ahold of my biggest girl, (thank the lord) Cocoa, a partridge cochin. I say juvenile...

I’m fairly new to chickens. I’ve had my flock for almost a year now. This is my second go around though. The first flock I had was completely wiped out by hawks. Like nothing left at but some feathers. I had 4 hens survive out of the 15. I got some more chicks and now I have 11 hens a little...

May sound a little dumb.. but what is the cheapest route to go about making a chunnel hawk proof, for my banty chickens in my backyard? What items besides chicken wire do i need for a chicken tunnel ?? Good enough. HOWEVER, where it serves my purpose for hawks Attack prevention though. ...