American Game Chickens

[centrarchid]

This will be problem I deal with a lot this spring.

Just a bit ago I looked out to barn and saw a hawk flapping upside over pen. Called kids up and we went to see what deal was. Coopers Hawk (adult male) got his middle toe tangled up in deer netting used to keep Great-horned Owl from walking over top of pens. Hawk was tangled pretty good taking better than 10 minutes to fully untangle. My boy had to hang on to hawk while I ran to get scissors. Hawk bit me several times and screamed a bit but could not break skin. Red-tailed Hawks tougher on that account and Great-horned Owl way tougher. This guy was not too hard to undue relative to GHO tangled in poultry netting. GHO can break your skin. Kids got a kick out of it. Hawk lucky this happened on a Sunday otherwise would have been upside down and vulnerable for much longer. It is amazing how a dainty little bird can kill an adult chicken,

but games near by would have challenged that. The hawk comes into barn almost every day to go after songbirds which is something I like.

 

[chickengeorgeto]

Yes that dom cock definitely has some Oriental blood because his stance is so straight that it looks like you raised or walked him in a stove pipe.