My new cockerel is doing good, looking great. I've had him in a very large dog crate on the screened in porch. His quarantine period is over. He was a bit afraid of us at first, but has gotten used to us. I need to get him out with his ladies.
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Wow, I just found this place again and sorry to hear of you getting rid of your stock. Life does throw us curves. My hens are four years old now so I will be adding more and hoped I would find a source here. I have never had hawks bother my birds and wondered if others did? Some say the hawks think they may be crows and leave them be?
I follow a channel on YouTube that added australorps and the hawk attacks stopped. Mine have areas that are fenced but open to the sky and they have never been attacked. I have even seen a hawk sitting on the fence and looking down on them huddled together. I saw that and ran outside yelling and it flew away lol!I have never heard this before. I would be interested in others' thoughts on this. I have a small mixed flock, including 2 BA, that has to stay in their safe, secure pen because of all the hawks around here (one visits everyday and sits in a tree watching the pen). I have seen what a hawk can do to a chicken, and it's a horrible thing-one I don't want to happen to my girls.