defense

So I've now read a fair amount of things here to help deter hawks. The hawk(s) seem to be getting more aggressive. Great info and help here though! This evening the hawk swooped ME. I came outside expecting to scare him off again because my hens were yelling, but I couldn't find him. Then I...

Has anyone had good luck with a reflective pinwheels or similar for deterring Hawks? I woke up to three Hawks, one being a large redtail in our yard scoping out our hens. Our set up is far from perfect or even complete, it's a fairly small space but half is a portion of our garden that we...

It was a rainy day and when the rain had stopped at about 5pm, I felt so bad locking all my girls up and I let them out. Big mistake. Luckily my husband heard the chain link fence rattle. We think that it was a younger fox, on his own. He killed one of my full grown hens before my husband got...

Hello! Second post on here, from the last post I was concerned in how eggs laying would essentially go for older eggs, but now I have two cute chicks- Butters and Benji! but i also have the father- He’s seen the chicks but hasn’t pecked at them once! Yes he’s curious and the hen allows him to...

Hey everyone! It's been a while since I've been a able to get on but the past 2 days I've had to chase an eagle out of my backyard that was about to grab my pekin's and chickens. I am surrounded by farm lands/crops so my area always has eagles and hawks around. I've been pretty lucky to say they...

The history of chickens (Gallus domesticus) is a bit of a puzzle. They were first domesticated from a wild form called red junglefowl (Gallus gallus), a bird that still runs wild in most of southeast Asia, likely hybridized with the gray junglefowl (G. sonneratii). Common predators that feed on...