Oh my goodness what a good girl! :clap
I'll bet she had her chest puffed out for a solid week after that.
...and those coyotes probably agreed to never speak of that day again, lol.
She's no coyote dog like yours (holy cow, btw!) but she'll dutifully alert everyone in a 2-mile radius should she deem something amiss in the yard. :hmm
No, mixed flock of standard size hens- no bantams. We've kept a flock for 6 or so years and only had a rooster for the first time a few months ago. Culled after 2 months for aggression.
The red shouldered hawks are smaller than the red tails and prefer a dense canopy like we have. They seem to...
We haven't had issues with daytime predators since we got goats and started rotational brush clearing with a 4 strand electric polywire set up. The coop and run is inside this electric perimeter, so the girls just duck under to go where they please. Not sure if enough roaming dogs, etc have it...