I have determined that we have a family of RS Hawks that have moved into the area. In a previous post, I described a run in with a hawk that dove towards our flock and was only deterred by me swinging at it with a broom; I now know this was a RSH. It had been a month since I had seen any real...
A hawk came into the yard...
Sounds like a setup for a joke with a lame punchline. But it isn't.
A hawk came into the yard and attacked my chickens. I never would have believed it if I hadn't seen it, but I came onto the scene too late.
It got my Polish pretty good, she was bleeding and scared...
Well, it was bound to happen. I’ve just been praying it didn’t.
Last night, 30 minutes before sunset, under tornado watch, very windy, and underneath very limby hickory trees, a hawk, juvenile I suppose, got ahold of my biggest girl, (thank the lord) Cocoa, a partridge cochin.
I say juvenile...
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...