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greggooo
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Ah, good to know. Beastie has little baby spurs at the moment, they are all almost 5 months old.I have been keeping chickens for quite a while. Losses to hawks has not increased appreciably in the last 30 years. Only increase I have noted occurred in years after DDT applications stopped.
Efficacy of roosters against Coopers not high when this time of year and when hens not breeding with rooster or with his offspring.
Otherwise the rooster is proficient at repelling Coopers Hawks. Even hens can do it when they have chicks. The hawks are strongly motivated to target chicks and they usually try to fly off immediately once it is caught and not yet dispatched, otherwise hen or rooster flogs hawk with at least a 4 to 1 weight advantage against a target that has at least one foot tied up holding another bird.
This stands for standard sized chickens that are mature and not encumbered by a lot of mutations typical of more ornamental of the ornamental breeds.