I'd be getting the run covered instead of setting up a camera. A camera isn't going to help your chickens if it is an eagle that attacked them and it comes back for more.
Golden Eagle attacked my girls.
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You can't really do anything about eagles except to roof things over. You can try keeping them indoors until it moves on, but another predator will just come in.
If you live in an area with eagles, your chickens need to have a roof. They look like fat, juicy hamburgers to eagles.
If you live in an area with eagles, your chickens need to have a roof. They look like fat, juicy hamburgers to eagles.
Bamabexchicks
Crossing the Road
We enclosed the top of our chicken tractor with orange plasic hazard fence. Cheap, lightweight and easy to work with
IMO aerial predators respect a visual barrier,and wont dash themselves into it if it means self injury.
starri33
Crowing
starri33
Crowing
you'll need to expand the picture but he's right between the 2 cresote bushes sitting on the pigeon he just caught
Can you put things in the run for chickens to run under for cover? and maybe put up a jungle gym of roosts - think playground. Or even run wire zig-zag over the run.
The less room for the eagle to land, the less likely it will fly into the run to get a chicken. If it too cluttered for the bird to take off without hitting things with its wings, it may decide to hunt elsewhere.
Although, I watched golden Eagles one day hunting rabbits on foot. It was pretty windy out, so the eagles landed and then spent 3 hours hunting on foot for rabbits - and they caught their limit too! One each.
The less room for the eagle to land, the less likely it will fly into the run to get a chicken. If it too cluttered for the bird to take off without hitting things with its wings, it may decide to hunt elsewhere.
Although, I watched golden Eagles one day hunting rabbits on foot. It was pretty windy out, so the eagles landed and then spent 3 hours hunting on foot for rabbits - and they caught their limit too! One each.
Living here in Alaska eagles and Hawks are really common.
Especially eagles I see eagles nearly every day flying over my house sometimes five or six egales at a time.
But the nice thing is I don't have raccoons, skunks, opossums, or snakes in my state.
My run is covered with commercial salmon seine netting.This is much stronger than any bird netting out there.
I am fortunate in that my dad's neighbors are commercial fishermen and gave me some old netting for free.
This stuff is pretty expensive to buy though.
There's an occasional small hole that I have to sew up but commercial fishing supply stores are pretty common here and so buying the supplies to fix the net is relatively cheap and easy.
With this netting I've never had a predator get into my run.
To attach The netting to the metal poles on the top of my run I use zip ties and for the wooden parts I hammer in small fencing staples.
This has held up pretty good for me.
I worry a little bit about brown bears but I also understand there isn't a whole lot I can do if a thousand pound brown bear decides he wants to get in there.
my buddy wants came over to my house and told me there was a hawk in the tree staring at my chickens in their run. I asked him what he thought I should do about it I cannot shoot the hawk and he cannot get in to get my birds.
Though I now have a potato gun at the ready to keep the moose away from my garden. I wonder how that would work to scare off Hawks and eagles if one of them were eyeballing my girls again?
Especially eagles I see eagles nearly every day flying over my house sometimes five or six egales at a time.
But the nice thing is I don't have raccoons, skunks, opossums, or snakes in my state.
My run is covered with commercial salmon seine netting.This is much stronger than any bird netting out there.
I am fortunate in that my dad's neighbors are commercial fishermen and gave me some old netting for free.
This stuff is pretty expensive to buy though.
There's an occasional small hole that I have to sew up but commercial fishing supply stores are pretty common here and so buying the supplies to fix the net is relatively cheap and easy.
With this netting I've never had a predator get into my run.
To attach The netting to the metal poles on the top of my run I use zip ties and for the wooden parts I hammer in small fencing staples.
This has held up pretty good for me.
I worry a little bit about brown bears but I also understand there isn't a whole lot I can do if a thousand pound brown bear decides he wants to get in there.
my buddy wants came over to my house and told me there was a hawk in the tree staring at my chickens in their run. I asked him what he thought I should do about it I cannot shoot the hawk and he cannot get in to get my birds.
Though I now have a potato gun at the ready to keep the moose away from my garden. I wonder how that would work to scare off Hawks and eagles if one of them were eyeballing my girls again?
I wouldn't bother harassing the raptors who can't get into your run. They may drool a bit, but will give up and move on. Meanwhile, they might get an extra rabbit or rat of something.
Mary
Mary
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WARNING: GRAPHIC PICTURES IN POST.
As requested, here are some pictures of what happened. If you don't like looking at these kinds of images, I encourage you to skip reading this post.
Her final resting place.
Flipped over, she lost a lot of feathers to the eagle.
Close up of the area where the feathers were lost in the previous picture reveales massive holes in the skin near the area where the neck meets the back.
Even though I am going to be moving in March, I'm going to take your guys's advice and cover the run. The chickens are already adapting well to the fact there are predators. They are staying inside the coop, they were there for most of the day. Just now they came out.
Anyway, I'm going to get that run covered.
Jared
As requested, here are some pictures of what happened. If you don't like looking at these kinds of images, I encourage you to skip reading this post.
Her final resting place.
Flipped over, she lost a lot of feathers to the eagle.
Close up of the area where the feathers were lost in the previous picture reveales massive holes in the skin near the area where the neck meets the back.
Even though I am going to be moving in March, I'm going to take your guys's advice and cover the run. The chickens are already adapting well to the fact there are predators. They are staying inside the coop, they were there for most of the day. Just now they came out.
Anyway, I'm going to get that run covered.
Jared
I do not think a raptor did that. Wound has a slobber look around it. Looks more like a botched murder seen left by a Raccoon or Opossum.
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