Brokenhearted

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A hawk just killed my poor baby, Lizzie. She was my sweetest and smallest girl and now she's gone and I can't stop crying. My husband and I buried her in the backyard. I am usually out there with them all day but we went inside to grab dinner and bring it out back. My two other girls are traumatized. How can I keep them safe?

My lil girl

 

[RyderTheChicken]

Im so sorry. Its always hard to loose a chicken. Do you have eagle netting over your chicken run?

 

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The chickens have a large, covered run with hardware cloth all around but we let them wander in the backyard during the day when I'm out with them. This happened in a split second. I'd like to let them roam without panicking every second since I'm pretty sure now I couldn't stop one even if I had been out there... Could we put eagle netting over the yard? We would have it done and the walls are quite tall and secure.

 

[RyderTheChicken]

If you have a covered run you should be good. And you can still let them out when your there. Its highly unlikely it will happen again.

 

[hayley3]

A hawk just killed my poor baby, Lizzie. She was my sweetest and smallest girl and now she's gone and I can't stop crying. My husband and I buried her in the backyard. I am usually out there with them all day but we went inside to grab dinner and bring it out back. My two other girls are traumatized. How can I keep them safe?

My lil girl

I'm so sorry...Do you normally see hawks flying around or was this a rare thing?

 

[eaking]

I'm so sorry...Do you normally see hawks flying around or was this a rare thing?

So rare. We live in urban LA and we haven't seen a hawk or hawk(s) in over a year.