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jeffp51:

--- Quote from: upstatenybowyer on November 01, 2018, 07:29:40 pm ---I've been doing some research on the BOP in this area and I'm 99% certain I've identified the beast...

Northern Goshawk. Melissa and I both got a good look at her (females are significantly bigger) and we both agree it must be what we saw. They are known for taking chickens, the size is a match and the coloration fits perfectly. What'ya think JW?

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That is a beautiful bird.  I would raise chickens just to watch it come and take them--and buy my buffalo wings at the store.

Zuma:
My area is loaded with chicken houses. On my way to town a truck loaded with
chickens was speeding past me in the opposite direction knocking down tree
branches as it swerved, narrowly missing me. About an hour later I came back
down the road and saw a very unusual site. It looked like it had snowed in
one spot off the right side of the road. Then it dawned on me. It was a ton of
chickens perched on a driveshaft and tires of the overturned chicken truck.
Local farmers fed off them for a month. So did the owls.
Zuma

upstatenybowyer:
It's gotta be tough being a chicken... you're just so tasty, and everyone wants a piece of you!  -C-

bjrogg:
I'll take a breast and a thigh.lol
Bjrogg

upstatenybowyer:

--- Quote from: Chippintuff on October 31, 2018, 07:22:47 pm ---
Edit: Once a predator of any kind gets a taste of chicken, it will count on getting dinner there every day till the last chicken is gone. When I got chickens, predators came from everywhere. Owls were the worst. I called a game warden to discuss how to solve the problem. He told me very bluntly that if I wanted to keep chickens, I would have to pen them up, because I could not do anything to "HIS" owls. Then he staked me out for a solid month watching every night for me to do something to his owls, but I had not just fallen off a turnip truck. Eventually it became just too much work and aggravation to keep them confined and predators and neighbors' dogs finished them off. One of the last things that happened was that a huge rattlesnake came in through the rusted tin at the bottom of my chicken house and killed a pile of half-grown chickens. It ate five (yes, I always had a count on them) of them and left the others lying there. You think I am lying, but I later found a rattlesnake big enough to do that within 50 feet of where that chicken house had been.

In Texas state and federal laws make it high risk to harm any predatory bird of any kind.

Edit: I know that a snake did that because of the slithering track it left in the sand.

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That is one heck of a story man! I would have had a hard time not going after a snake that size, especially if it ate my chickens! Just think of the backings you could get!

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