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    Hawk attacks and dog packs

    They try all four sides. What I DID DO was to hang a second veil of cage material around the outside of the top 2/3rds of the cage (it's 8 ft tall). This has pretty much thwarted further killings, but it hasn't stopped them from trying - and they COULD succeed if I didn't intervene when I see...
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    Hawk attacks and dog packs

    Yes, I don't intend to let our chickens free range here. Between the hawks and dogs - I don't wanna be monitoring them all day.
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    Hawk attacks and dog packs

    CONTINUATION.......... To my amazement, it was the Hawks that were doing this to my flock. They'd zoom at the cage and fly back and forth until the doves were in total frenzy - then it would strike when one of the doves was clinging and fluttering on the cage wire. Hawks are crafty! I...
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    Hawk attacks and dog packs

    We've kept birds and critters of some sort thru three decades now. Parrots indoors, cats and turtles outdoors as well as Ring-Neck doves and now chickens. One threat to the outdoor pets is hawks, and we have lots of them here amidst California farmlands. There's Coopers hawks (the irony of their...
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    California's central valley here

    Thanks for welcoming us into the flock. We're from Michigan originally - used to vacation in the UP every summer. We consider ourselves Californians now. It's all good. BA-GAWK!
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    California's central valley here

    While I had kept chickens years ago, it was only last fall that my wife hinted she'd like to try keeping some. The appeal of fresh eggs was our primary motivation, but secondarily, I just like birds of all sorts. We've kept parrots in our home for almost 30 years now - we have four currently...
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    Average Life Span of a Chicken/Rooster?

    We've got four parrots - one's been with us 28 years now. Another hatched in our home 21 years ago. The others are just youngsters.
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