My only encounter with Peacocks was when I was a little girl and we'd go to the zoo, they were all over and I thought they were so pretty but boy you could hear them for miles.
I hated to lose my lil bantam hen but I know when I choose to let my flock have free range of a 1/2 acre fenced in with no cover things like this can happen, I just didn't expect it to be so close to the house.
Not sure I have 2 geese and the hawk still came into the fenced property right off of where the house is and killed the hen. Those geese were as terrified as the rest of the ducks/chickens were. Matter of fact foamyownsyou has probably seen the youtube video where the falcon takes down a Canada...
Really a male is too small ? never would have thought that, not too long before the hawk got my hen I was walking around to the front of my house and saw my game bantam roo just barely miss get taken by a small hawk that around here is called a sparrow hawk, The roo flew over the fence with the...
You know when I went out to hear what all the commotion was about and most of the ducks and geese were about to climb the gate the Hawk came over the goose house and I honestly thought it was going to try to land where they were, Didn't see it on the ground goose house is in the way, but...
I know that was an abrupt ending that's too bad, My flock has a large piece of fenced property to range in daily we put up no climb horse fence last spring with barb wire on top of that to keep the blk bears out they destroyed our welded wire. I couldn't imagine having to pen my flock up they...
So far so good. We had a red tail brave enough to come into the fenced area right near the coops and our house and kill one of my bantam hens, I heard my rooster and went out to see what was going on, and everyone was piled up next to the gate that's when I saw the hawk take off he was so low...
Thank you for sharing, We are seeing a lot of Red tails right now and year round we have them but I'm thinking a lot are heading further north. So mine stay inside fenced property right now and I have put up reflective predator tape to try to keep them safe since it's too large an area to cover...
A member on the duck thread lost one of his drakes to a pred yesterday and we're thinking possibly a hawk first off because none of the rest were injured and second the drake was eaten from spine to neck only head still attached. They can't find any foot prints in the snow to point out 4 legged...