Jakey is gone! We had another hawk and we caught it.

[feather and mountain man]

My cuckoo is gone. She was my favorite chicken. She was so tame and sweet, she loved to be held and pet. I went outside and saw the hawk in the pen. I yelled and it tried to fly away and it could not get out. We went in the pen I cornered it and Bill put a metal wash tub over it. Then he went and got a fishing net. I wanted to kill it but it is illegal to kill birds of prey here. Mountainman set it free.

I am still shaking. Why my favorite chicken? Why Jake? She laid the most beautiful dark brown speckeled eggs.

 

[terrilhb]

I am so sorry for your loss. Prayers sent to you

 

[Chihuahuamom444]

Sorry for your loss....I have been thru the exact same thing and its horrible....my hawk was caught in my netting and after an hour got himself free....I could Kick myself I didnt grab him when I had the chance

 

[tinychicky]

awwww, i'm sorry for your loss

hawks are nasty

 

[Higins00]

Sorry for your loss, it's alway the friendly nice chickens that get it, so sad. It happened to me too, by a hawk. Sorry

 

[rebel-rousing-at-night]

I hate predators.So sorry about your loss.

 

[feather and mountain man]

It was the secound hawk in three days the first was a red tail hawk that smacked into the pen and did not get any of my girls it dented the wire and broke a fastener. I had been out working on the pen for the last two days just had come in to get a drink today and when I went back out to work on it some more that is when I found it. It must have been waiting for me to leave. I am so upset. DH helped me for about an hour before he had to go to work and I buried Jake behind the coop and covered her grave with firewood. I can't wait to get the old quail coop functional again. It is going to take alot of work but I am very motivated. I don't want to find anymore of my girls like that. I hate hawks this time of year.