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Chicken dinner
RobOz
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Red tail got one of the neighbors silkies. Hawk had no bands and looked very healthy. I was about two feet from it and it had no fear at all.Something you don't see every day.
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I trapped a * several weeks ago and took him off and released it I thought far enough away . well a few nights ago I went out to shut the door on the coop my buddy was back dining on a chicken . [:(!][:(!][:(!]
( the chickens and ducks are pets to my wife all have names .
to say she has had some sad days to find one half eaten is a understatement )
any way he saw me and made a run for the door but I blocked him and closed the door .
lets just say when I returned from the house
he was very disappointed in the lead desert I gave him to go with the chicken dinner .
Then about two weeks ago out of nowhere a Hawk swoops in and nails one of my Golden Sebright hens. Wife lets our dog out the back door and scares off the hawk and saved the chicken.
She (the chicken) is a bit tattered with a wound to her head near her left eye, so I put her in our indoor over sized dog kennel and give her a full week to heal up.
When I put her back outside with her mate and the rest of the flock, she is mercilessly attacked to near death by her own former friends!!
Back inside to her kennel home with a missing eye and a head that looks like a Rocky boxing match!
After another week she is still kicking but I am now unsure what to do with her. Too small for the stew pot and has now become somewhat of a "pet" as she thinks of me like I were her only friend.
Gonna be a long winter![B)]
All of my chickens have been living free for the past year.
Then about two weeks ago out of nowhere a Hawk swoops in and nails one of my Golden Sebright hens. Wife lets our dog out the back door and scares off the hawk and saved the chicken.
She (the chicken) is a bit tattered with a wound to her head near her left eye, so I put her in our indoor over sized dog kennel and give her a full week to heal up.
When I put her back outside with her mate and the rest of the flock, she is mercilessly attacked to near death by her own former friends!!
Back inside to her kennel home with a missing eye and a head that looks like a Rocky boxing match!
After another week she is still kicking but I am now unsure what to do with her. Too small for the stew pot and has now become somewhat of a "pet" as she thinks of me like I were her only friend.
Gonna be a long winter![B)]
My girlfriend has a small flock and I told her quit naming the dang chickens. The hawk incident happened about 400 yards from her place so now she wants the open top fenced portion of the yard covered.
He kept a coop full of chickens who were allowed to roam the place (way before "free range" )
One spring day I drove up to check the irrigation well and didn't see a chicken in sight but there were about 30 Cooper's hawks circling above the chicken house.[:D]