I'm not sure what he is. His dad was half bantam - very fierce guy! I think it's still coming through.
Teresa, next to Small Daddy in the picture above, brought up the next generation, but Rambo (below) has some tufts/beard and some colors that makes me wonder if he's part Ameraucana and not...
Here's a rear view of one that visited last summer. Yes, it is the chicken run fence he is sitting on. At that time, the runs were too small for him to try to get down in them. He hung around long enough on different fences for my son to take about 30 pictures.
We will be hanging up tinfoil...
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Do you have pictures of it?
What was the species?
It was a Cooper's Hawk, like I wrote above. I didn't take pictures, but I have other pictures of Cooper Hawks that have visited over the years. Here's one:
So should I have the hawk stuffed and hang on a trophy wall in the rooster's part of the coop?
Does anyone have an idea if it could have been this hawk that took the head of my hen?
There were no pictures. I left an open space so you would have to scroll down in order to get to the description of what happened to the hawk. I thought it was horrible.
No, it's horrible what happened to the chicken, but I feel like if I had a cow and it killed a dog... It tilted my view of my...
I thought I had a wimpy rooster - he was on the bottom of the ladder when his dad and brother were still alive - but today I found a dead Cooper's Hawk in the chicken run!
We found a dead hen in the run yesterday, a girl we had for a long time. We thought it was a possum or racoon, because...