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upstatenybowyer:
Well, I should have known. I built a pretty solid and spacious run outside my coop for the girls, but failed to make it completely hawk-proof.  O:)

At around 3:00 pm today Melissa heard a racket coming from out back (she was home w/ my sick son). She went out and a MASSIVE red-tail hawk had one of my girls pinned down and was getting ready for the kill.  :o

Luckily, Melissa ran at the HUMONGOUS bird of prey yelling loud enough to cause it to flee. She then secured the ladies in the coop. The girl was scared out of her tiny mind, but alive.  :OK

When I got home around 4:00 I went out there and the GARGANTUAN predator was back, perched low in a tree right next to the coop.

I walked toward the hawk, and told it in my best "quit the horsing around" teacher-voice to vacate the premises or else! That thing just sat there staring at me as if to say, "Where's my dinner?"

It finally flew away when I got close enough.  :D

What should I learn from all of this?

A) Melissa is scarier than me
B) I'm a terrible chicken owner for not properly "hawk-proofing" the run
C) Please feel free to tell me what you think I should learn  :D

TimBo:
D) Time to make some hawk arrows?  (Not sure about legalities there...)

upstatenybowyer:
Yeah, I thought of that Tim, but I live in NY and they've got a law for everything here. I could check, but I'd bet dollars to donuts it ain't legal.

bjrogg:
While your protecting them from hawks. You might want to make sure the mink, Fox and coyotes can't get em either. Mink can be hard to keep out. I've helped several chicken owners catch mink that kept killing their chickens.
Bjrogg

Zuma:
Before birds of prey became protected by the government folks
around here used to trap and shoot them :-M
The chickens fed their families. They would put traps on fence posts
and even on top of the telephone poles.
Zuma

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