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Sounds like you all have a good relationship going there, to me!

Something to think about pertaining to hawks that naturally prey on and are conditioned to preying on wild birds....such practices as throwing a bit of scratch grains out on the gound for your chickes, out in yard or range areas, definitiely attracts wild birds into the area and ito close...

Actually, no, it isn't such a good idea in the long run. While the easy food might provide a brief distraction from domestive livestock a while it is also nature's response to an abundant easy food supply to kick up rate of reproduction and survival of young among those predators, ending in a...

Same. i think, as burglars and your home. Have lots of expensive goodies out on open display with no obviousl security and you are like to get hit. Make it harder, and they'll move on to another place where its easier. Just as I don't think any homeowner thinks having stuff out on open display...

Back some 30 yrs ago, when redtails were extemely endangered, we were so proud and protective over a pair of redtails that took to nesting on our proiperty every year, raising young, within sight of our house. andwe have a farmyard full of chickens. And I never once even suspected they were...

Could be they were always there all along, just now you have the chickens, that gives you a reason to look about and notice?

Keep in mind the smaller hawks that aren't really a threat to chickens do serve a postive purpose being in your area...they prey on mice and rats that would make their way into your coops and feeders! Hawks are not always chicken keepers' enemy, they are friends as well.