Chicken Hawks

[Jacqueline Harris]

Can anyone tell me if there is a good way to keep chicken hawks away? I've already had one of my roosters to come up missing and I'm assuming that it was a chicken hawk bc I have no signs of it left. I loved it. It was the brown one. And my brown roosters are my favorite.

 

[Kiki]

Netting over the area they free range?

 

[Frazzemrat1]

My birds can't free range because of my dogs, but their run is completely covered with a roof over one part and bird netting over the rest of it.

 

[MrsM74]

We have a hay farm, not many places to hide for a chicken, and we also have many hawks and other predators. I only let my flock out when I can be around doing chores. Also in the evening there seems to be fewer hawks circling overhead. The rest of the time they are in a covered run. I am building a new (bigger) coop and run, and found an affordable well-reviewed netting from Amazon. I have a friend who has her chickens free range all the time - but she has a horse training facility with a covered arena and two loafing sheds plus trees and shrubs, all within a decent distance of each other. The chickens seem pretty intelligent about running for cover if there is anything overhead.

 

[centrarchid]

No feather sign strong indicator no hawk involved. Coyote or bobcat more likely, fox possible by usually one can expect at least some feather sign with the smaller predator.