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Happy Chooks, Do you think home grown cane poles would provide same benefits as the relatively expensive t-post in your system?

I have been using bailing twine which last a single season. Easier to handle as deploying than fishing line.

NellaBean, Maybe you can manipulate where dominant birds (roosters and adult hens) hang out during most of day. My flock is divided into multiple sub-flocks along cohort (age group) lines. Dominant cohorts dominate area around feeder and displace lower ranking groups. Try placing feeders in...

Quote: Bottle rockets require you to be present when hawk is. Being at launch pad (onthe bottle) all times when chicken out is difficult as you indicate. I have been resorting to keeping chicks in covered run longer reducing the window they are extremely vulnerable to hawks. The OP...

Quote: There may be an optimal distance between points of cover. If chickens can not get to cover before hawk is on their back, then chicken is lost. More cover sites properly located in yard better than too few but extremely hawk proof sites chickens can not reach in time. Remember the...

Quote: That is something I am going to try. More mobile than my netting method.

Quote: What kind of hawk is involved?

System I am using that seems to work involves tilting a poorly made chicken tractor so that one end is about 1 foot above the ground. When hawk alarm given they run for cover under tractor. Key to working is birds must stay close so they can beat hawk to cover. My waterers and feeders placed...