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[Cynthia12]

Oh oh !!! They are sooo cute! How many did you get to hatch? Congrats!

Oh my goodness, those are cute!!! And cute!!!!!

 

[Lilwanis]

I got off work early today and came home to this:

If you can't tell by the cellphone pic, that is a hawk roosting on my run.

 

[Lilwanis]

Another:

 

[cyndiloowho]

Can anyone see the halo around the sun from where you are? It is beautiful!

 

[Sphinx]

OMIGOSH, Lilwanis!! I bet you were really happy your coop was completely enclosed when you saw that!

Cyndiloo, I'm about to go outside, I'll check for halos while i'm out. It sounds interesting.

 

[cyndiloowho]

Another:

WOAH! That is a bold hawk! Did it take off when you came close?

 

[agreger]

You ladies are making me chick hungry with all those cute pictures LOL I am new to this board and learning a lot. It feels this winter I have gotten a crash course in chicken care.

 

[Lilwanis]

Another:

WOAH! That is a bold hawk! Did it take off when you came close?

It did eventually decide that I was getting too close. I have a series of pictures that I took getting closer and closer. The first was from my car until I was about 50 feet from it (the first picture that I posted of it). It took off after that picture. Sphinx, I was so glad that I made the DH put chicken wire across the top of the run. I have run around the run a few times since getting home to see if there are any holes and to count chickens.

 

[agreger]

Lilwanis that hawk is scary. Good thing nothing happened to the chickens

 

[Lilwanis]

I went out to collect eggs just now. Pearl, my puppy of an EE, raced into the coop, and was there waiting for me when I opened the nest box. I told her that she could lay her egg after I collected the eggs. She looked at me, shrugged, and flew out. I told her that the hawk was going to get her and that she could not come out today. She danced around my feet, oblivious to my panick. With a pocket full of eggs, I went to the patio to sit for a moment. She came and jumped on my lap, shooting smug looks at the others, still in the coop. I sat there hoping she wouldn't land on my pocket and get egg all over both of us, while trying to empty my hands so that I could grab her and take her back to the coop. She then spotted the meal worms that sit next to my chair and moved off of my lap to pointedly peck at the jar. I stood up, careful not to break the eggs in my pocket, grabbed the jar, and started to walk toward the run. She did a dance around my feet, doing her best to try to kill us both. I dumped some meal worms through the top of the run to distract the others. Pearl pecked at my hand. I finally opened the run and started dumping mealworms liberally in the pen, Pearl jumping happily and catching them in mid air. I then closed the run on her. Spoiled brat