Falcon

[centrarchid]

View attachment 1425465 This is what I use to keep the falcons away from my chickens!

A Buteo sp. which looks like a Red-tailed Hawk. Coopers Hawk will avoid that guy.

 

[Tbanner]

A Buteo sp. which looks like a Red-tailed Hawk. Coopers Hawk will avoid that guy.

There use to be a Cooper’s hawk that frequented my property because I use to hunt kestrels a bunch, now that I use the red tails he has seemed to relocate. So keeping a hawk mew close to my chicken coop has helped protect my chickens. Just have to make sure not to let the chickens out when I’m going to take the hawk out to fly.

 

[centrarchid]

There use to be a Cooper’s hawk that frequented my property because I use to hunt kestrels a bunch, now that I use the red tails he has seemed to relocate. So keeping a hawk mew close to my chicken coop has helped protect my chickens. Just have to make sure not to let the chickens out when I’m going to take the hawk out to fly.

That system can work. I sometimes have Red-shouldered Hawks spend a lot of time in my poultry yard where they sun bath and dust within 15 feet of penned chickens during late winter. Coopers Hawks that normally come in daily after song birds do not come in while the Red-shouldered Hawks are present. Red-shouldered Hawks do not appear to be a threat to my adult chickens and I have not lost any chickens to them to my knowledge.

 

[BlueBaby]

As I said he won’t take off with one. But he can take one down like he did in the yard across the street and eat it while alive. And he didn’t care that there were multiple people standing within 10 feet and watching.

Falconers raise and help train the bird's to hunt for food before releasing them back into the wild. So, one's that were managed by a falconer would not be afraid of human's.

 

[centrarchid]

I have witnessed many times where a raptor, be it a hawk or falcon, would consume a struggling prey item while under observation and the raptor was aware of it. The raptors where not habituated by a falconer. I get involved with these discussions because there is too much uninformed bunk that gets taken as fact.

 

[llombardo]

I'm just going to stick with any bird that hunts prey is a danger....

 

[BlueBaby]

I'm just going to stick with any bird that hunts prey is a danger....

I agree with you! Why take chances with the lives of your flock, after all?