WE TOO LAST A BARRED ROCK A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO TO AN 'UNKNOWN " PREDATOR. SHE JUST DIDN'T COME BACK IN ONE NIGHT. NO SIGNS OF A FIGHT OR STRUGGLE, SHE WAS JUST GONE. WE FIGURED A DOG, BUT THERE WERE NO FEATHERS AND NO DEAD BIRD. A WEEK LATER, HUBBY WAS IN THE YARD HEARD THE BIRDS GOING NUTS AND TURNED TO SEE A HAWK SWOOPING DOWN AND LATCH ON TO OUR HENS, HE RAN AND SCARED IT OFF, IT FLEW UP TO A TREE AND WAITED, HE GOT THE SHOTGUN,, BUT SHE HAD FLOWN AWAY BY THEN. THE BIRDS WERE FREAKED OUT, HIDING ANYWHERE THEY COULD, NOW WE ONLY LET THEM OUT ABOUT AN HOUR OR SO BEFORE DARK, AND WE STAY RIGHT THERE WITH THEM. OTHER THAN THAT THEY STAY IN THE PEN. SO SAD FOR THEM THEY LOVE ROAMING AROUND ALL DAY.