I have had good luck with the reflective tape. It twirls, and shines and does keep the hawks away. I have strips hung from our trees, fences, sheds etc and even added a few CD's that I hung from strings from the trees so that will add a whole lot more reflectiveness :-)
Hi Ande, So sorry to hear about your loss of your favorite hen, I know what it feels like. Still hurts when I see pictures of my Minnie flash up on my computer screen when she was happy scratching around in the yard. Anways, I haven't had any more hawk attacks since we lost Minnie. I put up...
Thanks Fentress...Does sound like it was a hawk. Such a waste of a life just to eat the neck. I spent the evening putting up more reflective materials around the yard. Hopefully this will confuse the hawk again like it did int he future. ( My old materials had faded or tore over the past year )...
So sorry Keith for the loss of Suzie. It is really hard to find our beloved girls half eaten. I am still dealing with the loss of Minnie. I turned the girls out this morning since they so love to free roam around the yard. I told them to "BE CAREFULL"!
After over a year since my last Hawk attack a Hawk has attacked again and killed one of my girls :-(. After the first attack, Minnie survived by some miracle! I then put of CD's and reflective tape all around my yard and it worked. But with the winds and rains over the past year I had lost some...
My girl has white spots on one side of her pea comb. I just noticed them yesterday and they didn't seem to pick off. I have also noticed with her that her backside ( close to where she lays her eggs ) has no feathers. Her backside has been featherless for a while. I haven't see any of the other...
My girls entertain me so much....I am always telling my husband ( Tinkerbell did this & Rapunzel did this ) and he just rolls his eyes at me as if I am a little crazy!. ( He just doesn't get it )....our love for our chickens!
One day I was walking down the driveway and the girls were following...
Gosh, I am so sorry that you were not able to save her. She was probably just so weak that no matter what you did she didn't have the strength. You did your best for your baby, it was not your fault.
I don't know if I can help, but I had a chick that was about 12 weeks old that ate a feather. Yep...a big feather that got stuck in her crop. She kind of acted the same. She was fine one minute, then about 10 minutes after eating the feather ( which I saw her do, and couldn't get it away from...
Hawk scare two days ago.....I was in my yard cleaning my horse stalls, my girls were on the hill scratching and enjoying life. Hubby and friends were in the yard, neighbors out, lots of action going on. I was looking at the girls on the hill when all of a sudden the hawk swooped down like a...
I bought some of that at the feed store, it was called " Save a chick". came in 3 packets, 1 packet per gallon of water. It helped save my chick who was on her last leg from a crop impaction.
Hello everyone!
I wanted to say hi from So Cal. I just joined BYC because I now have 6 babies 6 & 7 weeks now. I got them ( 2 buffs, 2 EEG's 1 Brahama & 1 I don't know...she was suppose to be a Brahama! ) when they were 1 & 2 weeks old.I have had chickens on and off since I was a kid, and just...