Do you guys know if our Australian kites are a threat to a full grown chicken? Noticed one circling in the air a couple of houses over yesterday and wondering if I should keep the chickens on supervised lawn time and if under the bushes where they wander the rest of the time is ok.
It used to come watch the favs from our gumtree when they were about 12 weeks old so we put bird netting up (temporary run long gone) but haven't seen it since then till yesterday. Guess it's it's baby feeding time again.
I've never been too worried but was talking to someone last night who had lost chickens to a hawk locally. Has made me a little nervous.
I have only had an issue many years ago with a small hawk that picked up a full size bantam. Lucky I scared it and it dropped her. Then the peewees chased it out of the yard.