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Songster
Today was a sad day. I came home on my lunch break to find my Sicilian buttercup beheaded in a cloud of feathers near our hedge head was bloody and looked like the crop was partially eaten, but no other injuries. She was still warm and I didn’t want her life to go to waste so I skinned her and sectioned off the breasts and legs to cook up for the dogs.
At first I thought it was a mink or weasel, but I saw a juvenile hawk sitting where she had been killed when I returned at the end of the day. Any thoughts?
I have a run but don’t have the roof on yet so I’ve been free-ranging them since May. I’m feeling very conflicted about if I want to continue free-ranging full-time or not. I know they only way to truly try and prevent predator losses is through confinement- but they just have such full lives getting to free-range. Ugh. Just wanted to talk to those that would understand.
At first I thought it was a mink or weasel, but I saw a juvenile hawk sitting where she had been killed when I returned at the end of the day. Any thoughts?
I have a run but don’t have the roof on yet so I’ve been free-ranging them since May. I’m feeling very conflicted about if I want to continue free-ranging full-time or not. I know they only way to truly try and prevent predator losses is through confinement- but they just have such full lives getting to free-range. Ugh. Just wanted to talk to those that would understand.