Ideas for protecting against hawks WITHOUT covering your run

[DickMidnight]

But aren"t you drawing predators in close to your chickens?

We do everything we can to keep predators away. Any food trash we may have goes into the well house, a completely-enclosed cinder-block building, until trash day. In fact it does not even go into the dumpster until trash day morning, an hour or so before trash pick-up. Nothing goes into the compost heap but chicken poop and litter. No food scraps. We REALLY don't want to attract varmints!

yeah this is what i was getting at and the point seemed to be badly missed.

glad i’m not the only one.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Somehow we ended up with a nocturnal visitor the other night anyway. But the birds were safely ensconsed in their fortress. Perhaps he was hunting bugs and beetles.