Wholly Carp! Some states won't even let you put up netting? They don't have some kind of farm/livestock protection laws. My mind is boggled
I live in Texas. From 2010 until 2018, I lived in a suburb of Houston and I had 15-50 chickens and we would lose probably 5+ a year to hawks (more to raccoons, foxes & dogs). The dogs were rare, the coons and hawks we combated by reinforcing any issues in the coop construction and penning the chickens in a covered run for a week or three. That seemed to be enough for the hawk/coon to move on to better territory, and I could let my girls out again.
Since 2018, I've moved out to the country - with a National Forest out the back gate. I have had one predator death since then (a fox), but nothing else, even though I know they are around. I think my neighbor's GP's help with the larger predators - they have an operation with 800 hens and two GP's that patrol 24/7. Seems to keep the bigger predators away from me. As for hawks - my neighbor's operation does have losses from them, but I've had none. I can only attribute that to my roosters (they don't have any and their hens stay outside all the time). My boys are vigilant and even when the buzzards catch a thermal nearby, they will call everyone in. Plus, we have a group of crows that hang out. I've seen them ganging up on a hawk before. It's awesome. My friend thinks he's setting out corn to entice deer to come into my back acreage, but it really just brings in the crows, which protect my chicken flock from the hawks.