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I don't know what to tell you. We lost about 35 hens to our hawk this summer when they were free ranging. I have had to put everything in covered runs or they would be picked off one at a time. Once the hawk knows food is there, I'm not sure how to get rid of it. You cannot kill them. It's against the law. That hawk still sits in the tree by my coops just hoping he'll find a chicken on its own. It's horrible. He even got both of my guineas. They are horrible chicken predators.
I did read that songbirds are good at chasing hawks away. If you come up with something else, I'd love to hear it! I have 30 guinea keets and don't know what to do with them since the hawk is determined to get them. I wanted the guineas for bug control which is pointless locked up in a run!
i would not shoot the hawk either, as long as the game warden was talking to me , but as i see him go around the corner if the hawk was in range i dont think he would get the chance to kill number 36 i know your birds mean alot to you and they are expensive so you have to do what you have to do to protect your chickens. i dont care how pretty the hawk might be
well, it might be illegal to shoot them with bullet, but you an certainly use a paint ball marker (aka paint ball gun) to hit them. We have a blue heron that is protected, but likes to hunt our koi it has killed 2 that were over 15 inches, too large for it to eat so it just killed them ad left them. After hitting it twice with the paint ball marker, it has decided to fish elsewhere
When I go to purchase I will tell them you referrred me so we can get a monthly discount..I can't remember the specs right off. But yeah, about me being older..I'm "only", and I say that term very loosely because I feel old sometimes, 26 years old.
