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I let the hens out for a while last night. I stayed outside as well. It wasn't even a half hour into their free range time and they all ran screaming for cover. It took me a few minutes but sure enough there sat a coopers hawk on the perimeter fence eyeing them up. I got within 12 feet or...

So the fake owl doesn't scare the chickens? I tried the fake owl thing and it scared the bejesus out of my hens for the entire week I left it up. I finally had to take it down.

I think your girls got hurt my trying to "escape". Chickens when panicked like yours were will run and fly into fencing extremely hard. I suspect that is how they were hurt and not trying to fight with the hawk.

Good for the roo, worth his weight in gold. I've had roosters that would stand up and take on any bird of prey and I've had roosters that beat the hens to the nearest hiding spots and just stand there raise cane.

I have found that eventually the hawks figure out the line and cd's are not a threat and move in for chicken dinner. Keep in mind these hawks can hunt squirrels and catch squirrels in the thickest of the forest canopy's so negotiating some string is not a problem. I don't know how big your run...

I had one that sat on a branch in a oak tree and licked his beak all day long looking at my chickens. I hung two wind socks in the oak tree and I have not seen him sitting on his favorite branch in four days now. The chickens are finally acting a little more normal, although this morning they...