Thank you Bob, it is really hard, I'm sorry you had to go through this too!
We will continue to free range them in their pen...I just can't lock them up into the enclosed pen and coop, they would be so miserable and I have no desire to have them live like that. I wish we could let them roam the whole property, but as you know the dogs are a worse problem than the hawks, they have wiped out 95% of my flock in one pass before, that was why we quit keeping chickens! I'm rolling a few ideas around in my head as to what I can do to add more protection from the sky, a majority of their pen has tree's, there is really only one area and that's where most of the grass is. I will be looking at it tomorrow as I try and figure out how my girl got out today!
