We are currently having trouble with a hawk/hawks. We lost our sweet little sultan chicken to a hawk earlier this week and now I have seen them in the yard every day since. We usually let our girls free range our yard. Have a flock of 6 hens now, a polish, Dominique, welsummer, buff Orpington...
A coop with 2 chickens came with my new FL house. We are really enjoying them and how they follow us wherever we go.
However there was a third chicken that got taken by a hawk before we took ownership. There's a hawk doing fly-bys and the chickens, which have full access to the fenced...
So my chickens have been inside during the day a lot lately which is really weird for them because they are almost NEVER inside except maybe on days with bad weather but even then they usually stand outside and get soaked (big dummies :lol:) so for them to stay inside on gorgeous days is really...