Keeping hawks out

[Stephanie8806]

your right but coop protection couid be different for a coon vs a hawk...

Understandable. But as I’m certain it was a hawk, and this thread is about hawk protection, I’d like it to stay on the desired topic.

Thanks!

 

[Stephanie8806]

Geese can live 25 years too.
My goose was born in 2006.

WOW! That’s an old goose!

 

[littledog]

Our current run has wire netting over the whole roof, but years ago before we got our own chickens, I was part of a community garden that had a couple hundred chickens. The run was too big to make covering it practical, so we strung lines of wire a couple feet apart along the top, and hung old CDs and DVDs every foot or so along each wire. The idea was that the CDs hanging in the breeze created flashing reflections that appeared as a barrier to any overhead predators. It seemed to work, since we never lost any to hawks.

 

[hayley3]

Understandable. But as I’m certain it was a hawk, and this thread is about hawk protection, I’d like it to stay on the desired topic.

Thanks!

Did you see the hawk fly in and kill the chickens?

 

[hayley3]

WOW! That’s an old goose!

Yeah they are a long responsibility, especially during the winter making sure they have water that's not frozen!

 

[aart]

I’d like it to stay on the desired topic.

Ultimately that's the way discussion forum threads should go,
but forum etiquette is not common anymore and certainly not here.

 

[Stephanie8806]

Ultimately that's the way discussion forum threads should go,
but forum etiquette is not common anymore and certainly not here.

Definitely. Which is why I’m trying to keep it steered that way. A car will drift off the road of no one keeps hands on the wheel

 

[Stephanie8806]

Did you see the hawk fly in and kill the chickens?

For the sake of argument, does it matter? If hawk/bird of prey protection Is the only topic I want to discuss? As I, the thread starter, have specified not only in the title but also in (now) multiple posts?

 

[hayley3]

For the sake of argument, does it matter? If hawk/bird of prey protection Is the only topic I want to discuss? As I, the thread starter, have specified not only in the title but also in (now) multiple posts?

Yes if you didn’t see it , it could’ve been another predator

 

[aart]

Definitely. Which is why I’m trying to keep it steered that way. A car will drift off the road of no one keeps hands on the wheel

Near impossible. Most read first post then reply away.
But Kudos for calling it out