HOW TO GET RID OF HAWKS/OWLS

[WalkingWolf]

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Electric fencing...

Razor wire on top of runs, not your fault the wings got chopped off.

 

[nelsontheresa2@tractor]

omg another chicken bites the dust!!!!!! he was my biggest rooster. I cant figure out what it is, but I think it might be a hawk. only a few feathers and only the soft ones. no meat in the area that I can find. how do I get rid of these awful birds/

 

[Patricia Jane]

Build a tractor run so you can move it around your yard/property. I don't free range for that reason. I have a large run with shade cloth. I also feed the crows. They are great at chasing the hawks away. But they do com back. Good luck. It's just terrible to lose them like this

 

[Two Creeks Farm]

Attract alot of Crows. Limit the free ranging. Secure a run and dry up the Hawks food source.

 

[Wisher1000]

What do you put out for attracting crows? I have some that come by every few days and walk along my wall in the back yard. What will they flock to?

 

[Two Creeks Farm]

A pile of corn....my garden (LOL)

You can even get a few Crow decoys to place around to hopefully spook the hawk until you can build up your friendly neighborhood crow population. I take anything i dont want the chickens to eat and throw it in a pile quite aways from the house. We have a ton of crows (and hawks) here so it isnt hard to keep them around. We watch crows chase hawks daily!

 

[centrarchid]

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Best choices are:

1) If you can not tolerate losses of any chickens, then heavily covered run or confinement to raptor proof coop.

2) If light lossess of free-rsnge birds tolerable (sometimes on intervals of years between losses): then any combination of following; livestock guarding dog, cover in locations chickens can retreat to when threatened, and / or adult roosters.


If you keep bantams, silkies or some of the smaller more delicate chickens, then confinement of your poultry will likely be warranted. All in all, it best not to be stupid with willful intent to harm or confine your pest unless you have permits that are darn hard to get.

I follow choice number two with all three options. I loose more birds to heat than to raptors and most of my birds are free-range. Heat losses are restricted to the confined birds.

So keep this all in proper perspective, how much are the birds (chickens and raptors) worth to you?

 

[bertman]

nelsontheresa2@tractor :

omg another chicken bites the dust!!!!!! he was my biggest rooster. I cant figure out what it is, but I think it might be a hawk. only a few feathers and only the soft ones. no meat in the area that I can find. how do I get rid of these awful birds/

We have some big red tails around here and they cannot lift even a hen, much less a rooster, so they just bite off the head and take it. So, my guess is something besides a hawk. Maybe someone else can help.

Good luck.​

 

[Two Creeks Farm]

Florida has Eagles and Ospreys which can carry off chickens, which I believe is where the OP is from.

 

[ranchhand]

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This thread is over 2 years old, was just revived today. The questions are now in response to the post by nelsontheresa2@tractor.