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Quote: Oh that's awful! I'm so sorry to hear of everyone else's losses. It is, in an odd way, comforting to know that we facing common challenges. Our girls have come down from their henhouse now but they will NOT come out of the chicken tractor to free range it. They step out, grab a bug and...

Wow, thank you all for the responses. I really appreciate the helpful ideas! I am so new and reasonably clueless when it comes to keeping animals (other than cats and apparantly I'm really good at that because mine all live to be 19 or 20!), I feel badly for the demise of my roos as I do feel it...

Thank you for the tip on the netting. I think we may go with a smaller free ranging area with netting over top since the hawk seems to think there may still be a chance at a meal. In regards to the lack of roosters, would it be advisable for us to replace the missing cockerling? Replace it...

We started our chicken operation about 3 weeks ago and in that time, we've lost one cockerel to a horrific accident involving our five year old (should we add children to the list of predators?) and then yesterday, the replacement cockerel got annhilated by a hawk. The chickens who evidently...