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    Broody Hen Thread!

    We are about half way through and Miss Broody as we call her only comes off the nest a few times a day to eat drink and stretch. We'll tell you we hat h add ppens
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    Broody Hen Thread!

    We have a buff that has wanted to brood for a long time and decided to let her. We put her in a space alone. Her rooster sits by her with his other two hens. Do we do something different if they actually hatch?
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    hawks

    Sophie has kept 4 legged ones away but not hawks. What do you mean "marking" birds?
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    hawks

    Our dog did a great thing though. Our 8 week old chicKS escaped their pen and she pointed them so we old catch them. They had hidden in the tall grass. Good dog Sophie
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    hawks

    Sorry I didn't answer the other person but we have a dog but she is a German shorthaired pointer. She wants to hunt them not guard them. We tried wire across their area but since we move them once a month to greener areas this is not practical. We are going to build chicken tractors. I hate...
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    hawks

    We are going to move them into the garden next to our house. We went from 16 and now have 7. Only one died osf natural cases. Rest have been to hawks. After we move them it takes 3 days for him to find them then we have lost one every other day.
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    hawks

    I will get some pictures. Probably this afternoon. The hawk seems to kill mostly the low hens on the pecking order. Our biggest hen Floppy has escaped each time. She is also 2 yrs old and wise.
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    hawks

    We have an electric fence around the birds so it is not a 4 legged animal and the hawk has been seen 3 times leaving the kill site.
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    hawks

    The hawk has been seen leaving the kill site. The carcuses are not taken. Our roosteris about 15 mo old. He is just gentle.
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    hawks

    Yes the one we have seen is a red tailed hawk. The breed is buff orpingtom. Our rooster is no help. He is the first one in the coop. The youger onesare being lost. But they are not the layers
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    hawks

    We have lost over half of our flock to hawks. The state "bird" prerson thinks it is either one bird or a pair. We have 15 babies we don't want to be hawk bait. We have moved the adults to corn fields thinking this would shelter them as they stay in there but to no avail. Any thoughts? ..
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    Electric Fence

    We are new to this
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    Electric Fence

    How?
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    Electric Fence

    Well we have lost half of our flock. We have moved them several times so they will have shelter. We are growing corn and they love to stay in the fields but the hawks find them. We and our "bird" specialist think it is one or a pair. We have 15 new babies growing up and don't want them to...
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    Electric Fence

    We are in Missouri not that this matters, but my resident ornithologist says hawks dont kill lots of chickens but once they have had success they are relentless. I feel we are lucky that wr have hadc10 days of success considering they killed 3 in a week. Cds are 4modern day pie pans:)
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