Wow, I'm sorry to hear that Euan.... I know they are very intelligent birds and working in tandem in quite impressive. Just an idea give the chicks some type of shelter inside of that small run so the hawks cant reach through the wire and get them. Heck, even if it's just a cardboard box with a...
Agreed they are to young at this point but hopefully in the future they will be more alert and weary of the predators from above. They have a coop and run both inside a chain linked fence so let's cross our fingers and hope we can eliminate some of the other predators i.e. the raccoons and...
It's a red tail hawk and the demo... we have 9 total chickens 12 weeks old and 5 roos and 4 hens. We are working on getting the number os roos down to 2.
Thanks Peristeria, yeah I was think of an owl decoy as well but I'm just worried the chickens will get used to seeing the owl and not be afraid of a real one.
Anyone had any luck in deterring hawks? We live in a very rural area with heavy vegetation and alot of large oak and hickory trees. We like to let the flock free range but caught a hawk trying to kill one a few weeks ago. Since then we only let them out when we are out in the yard and put them...
