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We grew carrots last year, and when the whole garden turned to an overgrown tangle of weeds, I found two rogue bell pepper plants and a handful of carrots in all the jungle of weeds! I wish wet had carrots and potatoes this year -I keep getting out voted on potatoes. We have onions and bell peppers still thriving, and some cucumbers and the green tomatoes. My chickens like the split tomatoes, and whatever garden rejects they get tossed, so it's not a total loss.
 
mrsdszoo said:
We grew carrots last year, and when the whole garden turned to an overgrown tangle of weeds, I found two rogue bell pepper plants and a handful of carrots in all the jungle of weeds! I wish wet had carrots and potatoes this year -I keep getting out voted on potatoes. We have onions and bell peppers still thriving, and some cucumbers and the green tomatoes. My chickens like the split tomatoes, and whatever garden rejects they get tossed, so it's not a total loss.
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I started to attempt a garden just for the geese to graze in. It's probably going to go crazy now.
 
lost another bird today, first a copperhead last week, now a hawk destroyed another silver laced wyandotte today. so sad. only 2 SLW's left. Guess I will be looking into adding some kind of elevated netting above the run. GEEZ!!
 
ugh i know! i just bought the knotted heavyweight netting online, only cost me $180 with shipping!!! GAHH!!!! now I have to figure out how to install it so it is elevated in the middle like a roof. ??? anyone know? im going to look through the threads on here to see what others say.

You think the hawk will keep coming back now that it knows where the free buffet is?
 
amandarc said:
ugh i know! i just bought the knotted heavyweight netting online, only cost me $180 with shipping!!! GAHH!!!! now I have to figure out how to install it so it is elevated in the middle like a roof. ??? anyone know? im going to look through the threads on here to see what others say.

You think the hawk will keep coming back now that it knows where the free buffet is?
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Probably. I had to cut up an emergency blanket and hang strips of it from fishing line in my backyard to deter them. Seems to have worked. We were lucky that when a Cooper's Hawk attacked my brahma, my daughter heard the commotion right away. We were able to shoo the hawk away, and save the hen, but that hawk was back sitting on our fence 10 minutes later.
 
I ran a bunch of masonry line back and forth over the top of our pen. zig-zag and back and forth ... it won't stop every attack but it significantly breaks up the flight path making it less tempting, less appealing for the birds.
 
I had four large umbrellas I opened and put on the ground around where my chicks hung out in the backyard. The chicks could hid under them and the wind occasionally moved them a bit. Only know I didn't lose any more chicks to hawks after that!
 

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