Hawk!!!!!!!help!!!!

[turbodog]

Bottle rockets.

 

[yankeedoodle300]

try putting a roof on your run. and get some kinda " Hawk away " repellent, if they make it.

 

[Nicole01]

I just watched a hawk take out a song bird in mid air just a few feet from my house the other evening. It was 6:30-7pm when I always free range. I look in the trees and watch to see if there are other song birds in the trees. If I see the other birds, I let my chickens out only for an hour. I will stand next to my bantam d'uccle. She is the only one the hawk can easily pick up. Luckily my run is big enough for them not to free range. Next year I will put up the netting where they like to go.

 

[JackE]

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I agree with you about the federal protection that hawks get. I don't think their numbers are in danger anymore. I know years ago, farmers and ranchers would just blast them out of the sky when they threatened their livestock. And supposedly that led to their numbers being "Threatened". So of course the government had to step in and ban the blasting. But I think now their populations have definently made a strong comeback. But with the TouchyFeely society we have today, The bans will never be lifted.
Jack

 

[Achickenwrangler#1]

Yeah it's so much easier to just blast em than to cover the run, just shoot everything in sight, then wonder why the rodents are crapping all over everything. If anyone wants to live in a world without predators, they could just move to another planet instead of ruining this one.

 

[JackE]

Dude, You should try decaf. Nobody is suggesting that ALL the predators should be wiped out.
Jack

 

[Achickenwrangler#1]

Ohh, my mistake, just want to get rid of 'some' of them, I guess that makes it ok then

 

[JackE]

I see, So using your logic, You would extend the same HandsOff policy to coyotes, raccoons, weasels? I mean, they are just predators too, Just doing what they can to survive. And, Why do you hate the rodents so much. They can't help it if they crap all over everything. They are just living things too. Why don't we just let them, and everything other living thing do what ever they want. Who are we, to get in their way.
Jack

 

[chickflick]

Play nice. Everyone has their own beliefs. Even if you don't agree, just agree to disagree.
That being said... Is your run covered? If not, get it covered. Then, leave your chickens in the run until the hawk gives up on food he can't get. If you do let them free range, Be on the safe side, put them in the run until the hawks give up. Sept and Oct are the worst months for hawks. There are some that migrate, so there will be more than usual.

 

[kittykittykitty]

Yes the run is DIRECTILY under the coop!
And here is my hawk setup:
I have CDs hung up on some fishing line...

Along with some tin foil pom poms I put up. (basically almost everything shiny in my house went up there lol)