Stinking Lousy Hawks!

[dacjohns]

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Remind me not to hunt with you. I would sure hate to get shot by a careless hunter with an unloaded weapon.

And remind me not to jump from a chopper with you. ive got 14 jumps from black haws and 75 from c-130s and read between lines.
Dennis 82nd air born trained but us navy

OK, you have me beat. Forgot how many jumps I have but it is around 50 when you count my sport jumps. Sorry to say but most of my jumps were tailgate jumps from various aircraft. You get spoiled in Special Ops.

I salute you, Airborne.

 

[BunnyMomma]

I have a solution for your hawk problem.

It works for me and it will work for you too. I have a 30 x 50 ft run attached to the coop. It is open at the top and early this summer a hawk got my only 2 porcelain D'uccles. I was so mad.

I made 2 scare crows, that look almost human. I found a cosmetology mannequin at the thrift store for 2.00 and I found an old pair of overalls that were too small for me, and an old shirt. I stuffed the clothes with plastic bags, (they dry easily) and put a hat on her. I had an old shovel handle, and I put it in her hand and some old artificial flowers in the other hand. She is really a cute addition to the garden area where I keep my chickens.

I also made another one from similar things I had laying around and sat her in an old lawn chair. I also tie two of my dogs near by for the day while the chickens are out. The dogs love taking care of the chickens, they know they have an important job to do.

The hawks are in the back feild now hunting other prey and not my chickens!

So far I have had this set up since early summer and it is working like a charm. I move the scare crow ladies around about every 2 weeks and change the scenery a bit to keep the hawks at bay. I hope it keeps working. Try this and you'll be suprised at how good it works. The scarecrows even look so real that one of my neighbors drove into the driveway and thought it was me! She was hangin out of her truck window talking away to the scare crow!

I came outside and said "Who are you talking to Suzanne?" It was a riot! HeeHeHee!