Does anybody have any suggestions for hawk control?

[Kyzmette]

@aart Nice! It's like "I'm just window shopping, here."

 

[ChickensAreSweet]

@aart Nice! It's like "I'm just window shopping, here."

x2 Great pic!

I agree with centrarchid- roosters help tremendously!!! The hens just aren't as observant.

 

[Joshua G]

@aart Nice! It's like "I'm just window shopping, here."

x3

 

[Joshua G]

I have a rooster but he does not give any warning sound when he sees a hawk, but he's only 15 weeks old , my old rooster would make that sound if we threw a ball in the air or if he saw any bird flying.

 

[boats317]

I happen to start flying my rc planes at the same time there are hawks around...not my fault we share the same airspace...but they seem to move on pretty quickly at that point.

 

[aart]

I happen to start flying my rc planes at the same time there are hawks around...not my fault we share the same airspace...but they seem to move on pretty quickly at that point.

LOL!!!


Thanks for the compliments......that hawk landed about 2 days after I got the run up, I felt very vindicated after reaping a ton of crap about my 'over-engineered' run.

 

[Kyzmette]

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I know exactly where you're coming from with that. I have a neighbor with a dachsund from hell. That little dirt-dragger has killed more of my chickens than anybody should ever have to tolerate. They supposedly have it chained up when it's outside now, but I noticed whenever it was raining, I was still coming up with chicken damage (apparently somebody doesn't like having to go out in the rain to secure the dog). I almost have the new pen finished. It's actually very close to the fence that is right next to their house. It has chicken wire buried a full foot underground, as well as a skirting of chicken wire laced into the bottom foot of the perimeter and extending over two feet of the perimeter ground on each side of the pen. I'm still working on the lacing project, but when I'm done with that, I'll start removing panels of fencing from the base of the pen so I can install raccoon traps at intervals along the fence. Whatever ends up inside those traps will never make it back to wherever it came from. In the meantime, since I try to live naturally, and the compost pile I started in the old pen is no longer being worked by the chickens since I had to move them to the new pen, I'm starting up a new compost pile in the back corner of the new pen. A great... big... compost... pile... in that very... back... corner. You do what you have to do, ammiright?

 

[centrarchid]

Check out video of what appears to be a white leghorn cockerel and a juvenile red-tailed hawk. Out come was unusual but if victim where a hen or juvenile and an adult rooster was operating in under trees then hawk would not have been able to do what it did. Cockerel was damaged, possibly grievously even though not directly evident in video other than in birds altered gate.

 

[marktoo]

I had heard that a chicken's second line of defense is to play dead. The first being run for your life!

 

[tamberlin]

I have a run not to disimilar to aarts, but the darn hawk keeps hanging around. It's tried getting in the doors, walking on the roof.... It checks the run out EVERY DAY. My studio is down in the basement with windows facing the chicken run, so I see it.

Is there anything I can do other than illegally remove the bugger? I've put out a moving owl decoy, it just freaked out my chickens even more than they already are, so I had to move it farther away from Chicken Fort Knox.

Thanks for any suggestions,
Deb