Cooper's Hawks Hunt Openings to Coops During Migration!

[Trish1974]

Sure can, a Colling Street fruit cake or bottle of Crown Royal goes a long way "greasing" squealing neighbors..

A Collins Street Bakery fruit cake would shut me up for sure!

 

[duluthralphie]

I would like 2 fruit cakes,, and I will swear you were here with me when said bird of prey forgot to pull up at the end of its dive towards your chicken and broke its neck.

 

[tigger19687]

I thought it was an Owl that took the heads. Or at least that is what I was told as a kid

 

[Al Capon]

I would like 2 fruit cakes,, and I will swear you were here with me when said bird of prey forgot to pull up at the end of its dive towards your chicken and broke its neck.

Exactly.!
Hawk was obviously suicidal.

 

[aart]

 

[Fishkeeper]

Yep, that's a hawk. That's why you need a roof! All he can do from up there is annoy them.

 

[chickengeorgeto]

Is there anyway we can reduce those average ages,, without risking involuntary confinement or hefty fines?

Hawks will return to the same kill so it is possible to put something on the remains of your chicken that will give yea-old-Coopers-hawk a belly ache. I am sure that this is no more painful for the Coopers hawk than it is for your chicken being eaten alive while a hawk twists its talons in your hens guts.

 

[Fishkeeper]

Don't blame a predator for doing what it's programmed to. The hawk doesn't understand the pain it causes, it's a hawk. Just because it's a predator does not give you the right to condemn it to a painful death.
Poisoning anything is bad for the local ecosystem, and, again, illegal in this case. Very illegal.
If you live where there are hawks, keep your chickens inaccessible to said hawks. If you don't keep them inaccessible, resign yourself to losing some.

 

[tigger19687]

Don't blame a predator for doing what it's programmed to. The hawk doesn't understand the pain it causes, it's a hawk. Just because it's a predator does not give you the right to condemn it to a painful death.
Poisoning anything is bad for the local ecosystem, and, again, illegal in this case. Very illegal.
If you live where there are hawks, keep your chickens inaccessible to said hawks. If you don't keep them inaccessible, resign yourself to losing some.

EXACTLY. The only one to blame here is the person who doesn't Secure their animal.

 

[sourland]

EXACTLY. The only one to blame here is the person who doesn't Secure their animal.

Or when necessary protect their animals. This is the 'Predators and Pests' forum - purportedly a no judgement zone. I got rid of my birds because of constant losses to Cooper's hawks. Others have a different solution.