Hawk attack

[Cgoodnite]

I was looking back at the day after pics and wow she looks better than I realized.

 

[TennesseeTomatoes]

Another dogone hawk attacked one of my hens yesterday. They are bad this winter. We were standing right near them, trying to get them in the coop early, without success. We turned our backs literally for less than 30 seconds and the hawk swooped down.

We scared him off before he could carry her away and I injected her with a dose of antibiotics for the puncture wounds by his talons. She's my vocal hen, always talks to me when she's hungry or upset. She was pitiful and complaining up a storm afterwards, poor girl.

Birds are amazingly resilient but they'll all probably stop laying for a time. My Rooster is a game bird and he fights for his hens with his life. He even seems traumatized. We are done free-ranging this winter!