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Haha....yeah...I still get twitchy when I hear them doing their calling, I'm currently working on putting a more solid covers over the pen. Its a slow process with the weather, but most of my birds are still in the barn pens. I've been rotating pens I let out onto the lawn and down in the summer runs while I am out there with them working on stuff.
My problem hasn't been with the hawks so far this year...its with stray cats that have taken up residence in the barn. I'm going to be working on iradicating them....they are super wild, I think probably cats people have dumped off out in the country and then they follow the creek bed right up to our place....they have either killed off or chased away the original cats I had....but if that wasn't bad enough, they are egg thieves...it makes me pretty upset to go collect hatching eggs only to go find a nest full of empty shells...but it gets worse, much worse...there is an old scar faced tiger striped tom that is now teaching the others that its 'OK' to chase down and eat my birds!! First is was one of my pigeons, then a dove...and the other day they broke the door to the chicken house where I keep my bantams...that's just the last straw...this has all happened in the last three days...so now I'm in full gear to stop this. Especially since I have pygmy goats babies coming any day and they are going to be extra, extra tiny as their momma is a midget pygmy....I can't be worrying about these dang cats anymore!
You want to borrow my 410.???? I have an over & under with a 22ga & 410ga that I have used for years for the gophers that I can't seem to get rid of. If I had all the money back that I spent through the years on plants that the gophers got we could have retired even earlier.....LOL
