- Nov 23, 2013
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There's lengthy back story to explain why I left my coop doors open, involving trying to get one rogue bantam momma to come home, but what I just saw was horrible!! I am so sad and frustrated right now.
I was in the nursery, trying to get my little one to nap, when I heard a bunch of shrieking and angry cluckingclucking from the coop. I jumped up to see a GIGANTIC hawk perched atop a poor little bantam cockerel, who had been just venturing out on the ramp. I pounded the window and that **** hawk just took off with my little guy in its claws. Heartbreak.
I KNOW I shouldnt have let them out without being outside, but its this stubborn bantam momma. She has been out in the cold for four nights and everytime I go out to entice her back in, she takes to the trees. I even tried putting one of her baby cockerels (not the one that got taken) and a big pile of scratch near the base of the tree she was roosting in. No luck. Now the coop is closed, the two birds are way high up in a pine tree. Sooo discouraged
I was in the nursery, trying to get my little one to nap, when I heard a bunch of shrieking and angry cluckingclucking from the coop. I jumped up to see a GIGANTIC hawk perched atop a poor little bantam cockerel, who had been just venturing out on the ramp. I pounded the window and that **** hawk just took off with my little guy in its claws. Heartbreak.
I KNOW I shouldnt have let them out without being outside, but its this stubborn bantam momma. She has been out in the cold for four nights and everytime I go out to entice her back in, she takes to the trees. I even tried putting one of her baby cockerels (not the one that got taken) and a big pile of scratch near the base of the tree she was roosting in. No luck. Now the coop is closed, the two birds are way high up in a pine tree. Sooo discouraged

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