The Pallet Hawk Shelter and The Tin A-Frame Hawk Shelter

[ChickensAreSweet]

Chicken.Lytle :

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I am sorry for your losses. Hardware cloth all around is the only surefire way to keep them safe, for sure.

Currently working on a new coop. It will have full coverage with hardware cloth. The main run has poultry netting, which has been effective so far.

I am definitely going to set up pallet shelters and poultry netting if/when I let them range again.​

Do you know, what is so interesting about keeping them safe from hawks is that there is a definite seasonal danger from them. They appear ravenous but only at times. Unfortunately I haven't figured out the pattern.

Someone posted on BYC about the hungrier times of hawks...migration season or something like that.

I just figure if it gets bad again (it got bad right when I put up my netting - I stayed out in the sun all day one day putting up netting to save their lives) I keep them in the side yard until it passes.

 

[Bengalcats1]

Here they seem bad in early spring

 

[rebbetzin]

This gives you some insight into my brain...

I read the title and thought...

"Now why in world would someone want to build shelters for Hawks???"

 

[ChickensAreSweet]

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Hahahaa! I named it a fancy name to try to be like the Brookstone catalog, where they name everything with capitals and put "The" in front of it.

TY Bengalcats1!