Hawk killed two

[mpgo4th]

I haven't been home during the day for three day. I get home and shut the coop up just after dark and I feed and water and let them out just before sunrise. I got home early yesterday and noticed the 9 week olds were all still in the coop. I went out and saw that I had two missing. I walk the fence line to check for holes and found the first one freshly killed and still recognizable. After a little searching I found a pile of feathers and a leg and bones from the second one. I've had predictors come before but they never got a kill let alone two. I'm so mad right now. The pen is 60 feet by 30 feet and now I put a 10x10 dog kennel in front of the coop with a tarp top. I hate that that's all the space they have.

 

[Chicken Girl1]

Is your run covered? I have had 3 hawk attacks before and it was only able to kill on one of the attacks. The best advise if you don't have a covered run is to cover it.

 

[Pork Pie]

Fishing line can work - kinda zig-zagged across the run. I actually use tree branches, palm leaves over my grow-out pen and it seems to work.

 

[mpgo4th]

It's covered now.