Yes, it's heartbreaking when they "disappear" from hawk visits. We have found that tying silver CD's from string tied to tree and bush branches has almost eliminated hawk fly-overs. We haven't lost a chicken since we did this. They catch the light and breezes and confuse the hawks. Good luck, xoWe have dogs and kids that are outside almost constantly in our yard with our free range chickens. We've had hawks all the years we've lived here and never once have they bothered our flock. But lately they seemed to have lost much of their fear of that. Exp, just a few days ago I'd just culled a duck and left for a few minutes to get the next one. When I was returning to the culling area, I saw a hawk fly and land up on a branch right above my recently culled duck., only about a yard from me. Just a few hours, a hawk was perched right on the fence pole near our free ranging chickens. Which I immediately penned up and did a head count of. We are now missing one out of five half grown chicks....