Predator Protection...netting...turkeys?

[chisNchickens]

Okay to start off, this is a question pertaining more to my friend than myself. I have chickens AND chihuahuas, she has chihuahuas only. She has lost one to a coyote and since then spent a ton of money on fencing with roll bars? at the top. Now she is worried about hawks. We know one woman who lost more than one to a hawk. One of her babies disappeared and the next day while she was still putting up fliers/calling neighbors,etc - she watched a hawk come down and snatch another one.
My question...is there a netting or some type of topper she could utilize? Her yard is not that large. She is even thinking of getting a large dog to be out with the little ones. Also someone told her hawks are afraid of turkeys!?? Really? I would think a turkey might be too noisy to live in her neighborhood though...
Any suggestions aside from illegally shooting the them?

 

[Achickenwrangler#1]

I never saw a hawk in the last place I lived, until I got a chihauhau puppie and took him outside in the morning for potty time...then the hawk came to the telphone pole right over the yard...it took several doves and a bluejay from the feeder. Ya gotta put a roof over the pen, its the only real protection, they will sweep in a 10 foot wide area, snatch, and fly away before anybody sees it, stealthy critters.
there are all kinds of netting and screening available, you decide

 

[mrpekinduck]

Plastic poultry netting would do the trick.

 

[Oregon Blues]

I have small dogs and they go outside though a dog door and into an enclosed kennel with livestock paneling over the top.

It's not just the hawks and owls. I've had a Magpie try to take a puppy and I know someone who had a Seagull take a puppy up and then drop it to kill it.

Crows will try for a small puppy, too.

The coyotes are the biggest danger where I am, but I've got Eagles and Great Horned Owls, too. Security for dogs is high priority at my house.

 

[chisNchickens]

Thanks. Puppies, of course, wouldn't be left out alone anyway. My adults are out in a pack of around ten so perhaps that helps. There is always a large dog out for protection at all times.
As for my friend, sounds like she is going with the netting. A LOT of netting. lol.