An article that I found helpful to keep hawks away.

[Dominique King]

This is a very helpful article that I found helpful to keep hawks away. Check it out!

https://animalgiant.com/do-black-chickens-keep-hawks-away/

 

[igorsMistress]

Hello! Please don’t depend on this to keep hawks away. It doesn’t work. A better option is to have lots of hiding places and cover in your yard. Shrubs, old tables, old chairs, playhouses, even a debris pile. Things like this keep the hawks from being able to swoop through the yard and carry off flock members. It also provides places for your flock to hide if/when a hawk does come to visit. I’ve had at least one black chicken the entire time I’ve been chickening and the hawks don’t care. They still come around from time to time.

 

[Dominique King]

Hello! Please don’t depend on this to keep hawks away. It doesn’t work. A better option is to have lots of hiding places and cover in your yard. Shrubs, old tables, old chairs, playhouses, even a debris pile. Things like this keep the hawks from being able to swoop through the yard and carry off flock members. It also provides places for your flock to hide if/when a hawk does come to visit. I’ve had at least one black chicken the entire time I’ve been chickening and the hawks don’t care. They still come around from time to time.

I am sorry but I have to disagree with you. Hawks haven’t swooped down on my free ranging flock for a while. So these methods work.

 

[igorsMistress]

I am sorry but I have to disagree with you. Hawks haven’t swooped down on my free ranging flock for a while. So these methods work.

Ok.

 

[sybonbon]

This is a very helpful article that I found helpful to keep hawks away. Check it out!

https://animalgiant.com/do-black-chickens-keep-hawks-away/

Thanks for the article. It would be wonderful if this was true. I use the "keep the chickens in a large secure pen" method with free ranging only when I am within 10 feet of them. 8 years with no losses.

 

[Dominique King]

That is really good!

 

[Horseladywithchickens]

I noticed that Mockingbirds will chase the hawks away or try to so I like to give the ones that stay around my chicken coop a treat sometimes for helping chase the hawks away. Got to watch them do it a couple of times. Lol.

 

[Dominique King]

Wow really? That is pretty cool!

 

[Horseladywithchickens]

Wow really? That is pretty cool!

I've seen the Mockingbirds sitting on the top of my chicken coop liked they owned it. I kinda spill the feed when taking it to the coop. It doesn't go to waste lol

 

[Molpet]

I have mainly black or white, a few barred or buff. I usually have 40 to 60 hens and 4 to 8 roosters...along with heritage turkeys.
So far none of the 4 buff have been attacked by raptors.
2 barred have been attacked while I was outside so I was able to chase the Red tail off.
3 white were found dead with red tail feeding.
2 black found dead with red tail feeding.
2 black were attacked, the first I heard the hubbub and ran RT off 10 ft from the house. The 2nd the jakes were beating the snot out of a juvenile eagle. When the eagle took off wobbly, the jakes went after the hen. She was able to run to the coop.