Hate Hawks! Have had them fly into the barn and enter the hen house to take a young bird. Actually had roosters fight one down to the ground where I could hit it with a shovel.
Not all of them are small. Chicken Hawks yes, but Red tail and Coopers are huge! Having those talons aimed at you is frightening. In an attack dive the hawk is focused on its prey and it can do you harm if you intervene.
An owl if it feels threatened will attack. Our friend lost his eye when an owl nailed his face while he was in a deer stand.
Oklahoma state statutes allow killing a hawk that is predatorizing your flock...in the act of attacking.It’s illegal to kill a hawk here
All Eagles are totally off limits.
Hit it hard enough so it doesn't scream.
I prefer rabbit. Hubby prefers quail.
Not doing either right now.
Night crawler worm boxes under the rabbit cages yielded great fishing worms. Quail poop is too "hot" for immediate use...used it in the compost pile.
Rabbits yield larger meat portions....must have more quail to yield the same amount of meat.
Feed bills were about equal. Housing cost about the same....unless you put in an outside living quarters. Quail are more messy than rabbits.
Rabbit hides can be tanned or sold...not so for quail.
Quail eggs were a pain to peel. Three quail eggs equal one banty egg or five quail eggs equal a hen egg.
This was the first draft, and I’m hoping she doesn’t want me to redo any of it.
Earliest ever.
It is too late to replant anything but lettuce. 
thanks Nutty.
