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Part of improving dogs role is forcing owl to come down to their level to get at poultry. Then dogs might get a little more interested and owl will not come down voluntarily. All you must do is get dogs excited once about owls and they should do fine after that. Owl could be walking in or...

In this case you would be removing a breeding pair which may make things more complicated. The state biologist might actually provide options, possibly of material sort to enable keeping poultry even with owls about.

Chick, I see the potential for comedy. Especially if you were the fourth guy and to relate to audience despite having very few birds and always out and about shooting birds of prey, you kept loosing birds anyway.

Furybabymum, Very informative video! Owl, despite lesser size is the aggressor and outcome may have been greatly influenced by your presence and lights being on allowing peafowl to see. Owl's motivation may not be single minded pursuit of food, rather it may also interested in ejecting any...

Find out where they are nesting. After its use this year make it so can not be used again. Birds should be fully fledged by April so legal restraints should not be a problem if it is part of building structure. Being where you live, nest sites may be in short supply so possibility remains that...

Looks like worse case scenario with respect to owl and free-range chicken management. Bigger owl is female and smaller bird although with deeper voice is male. You may have a rare opportunity to watch them rear a brood with eggs layed sometime during early January. I would gladly pen chickens...

Owl may be having difficult time itself and not have barn as preferred location. Your area may be drought affected and breeding season of 2013 is setting up with territory establishment occuring now. If your owl is loner, then it may also be operating to avoid persecution by other GHO's with...

Now that moon is waxing near full my great-horned owls are visiting as well. One was on power line as I pulled in to drive. The great-horned owls for me visit only at this time of month while barred owls at opposite on lunar cycle. I did not train my dogs on owls per say and that would not be...

Dogs work very well for me against even great-horned owls. Key is birds small enough for owl to fly off with must not be accessible. For my great-horned owls, anything more than 3 lbs is too big to pack like OP describes. If owl has to grapple larger bird with action going to ground, then dog...