I hated to lose my lil bantam hen but I know when I choose to let my flock have free range of a 1/2 acre fenced in with no cover things like this can happen, I just didn't expect it to be so close to the house.Anyway I give my condolences
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I hated to lose my lil bantam hen but I know when I choose to let my flock have free range of a 1/2 acre fenced in with no cover things like this can happen, I just didn't expect it to be so close to the house.Anyway I give my condolences
Really a male is too small ? never would have thought that, not too long before the hawk got my hen I was walking around to the front of my house and saw my game bantam roo just barely miss get taken by a small hawk that around here is called a sparrow hawk, The roo flew over the fence with the hawk close on him till the hawk saw me and it looked like it stopped in mid air did a 360 and took off. The hawk that killed my lil hen was huge.
Not sure I have 2 geese and the hawk still came into the fenced property right off of where the house is and killed the hen. Those geese were as terrified as the rest of the ducks/chickens were. Matter of fact foamyownsyou has probably seen the youtube video where the falcon takes down a Canada goose I could only watch till the falcon got it on the ground then had to get off. .I'm not sure a Peacock could scare off a hawk either. What would they use a defense? other than the scream lol
The first time I heard peacocks scream I thought our neighbors were beating their children (come to find out they did not have children - just peacocks). Would have scared me away !!! ~: )
I've heard that scream it would send me running.
My only encounter with Peacocks was when I was a little girl and we'd go to the zoo, they were all over and I thought they were so pretty but boy you could hear them for miles.When I was little my grandma had two peacocks meanest dang things I've ever met