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We had a bad hawk attack Easter Morning. Lost four hens and a rooster and three more hens are in the basement recovering from bad wounds on there backs. I love free ranging our chickens and have not had problems with any other predators, but after the hawk attack last fall and the on yesterday I am beginning to think that we might have to keep the chickens in a run. I expect to loose a chicken here and there since we free range but it is hard to handle 5 to 8 every time these hawks attack.
We had a bad hawk attack Easter Morning. Lost four hens and a rooster and three more hens are in the basement recovering from bad wounds on there backs. I love free ranging our chickens and have not had problems with any other predators, but after the hawk attack last fall and the on yesterday I am beginning to think that we might have to keep the chickens in a run. I expect to loose a chicken here and there since we free range but it is hard to handle 5 to 8 every time these hawks attack.
Hondo, very good photographs of your red-shouldered hawk. My male displays but I can never get camera ready fast enough.
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Hahaha, Well put! However, there is a difference between shooting something and shooting at something. It is a federal offense to kill a hawk...but it is not a federal offense to discharge a shotgun in it's general direction to scare it away.