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Post by dawg53 on Dec 25, 2018 5:05:32 GMT -5
Hanging fake tree limbs for the hawks to perch over your pens? LOL
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Post by maryellen on Dec 25, 2018 9:08:38 GMT -5
Nooo lol.. inside the wire with leaves and branches to hide the chickens...
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Post by maryellen on Dec 25, 2018 9:13:05 GMT -5
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Post by seminolewind on Dec 25, 2018 11:33:31 GMT -5
Haha!
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Post by maryellen on Dec 25, 2018 13:47:03 GMT -5
Good thing is the owls are keeping the sparrows away lol
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Post by maryellen on Dec 25, 2018 15:10:45 GMT -5
Another view  |
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Post by dawg53 on Dec 25, 2018 16:44:34 GMT -5
Looks like a storm blew branches and limbs down on your pen lol. The owl in the first pic looks real!
Whatever it takes to deter hawks!
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Post by maryellen on Dec 25, 2018 19:03:43 GMT -5
Yeah the spare branches broke off, i cleaned them.all up and tossed them. I will get more stuff to hide them, but also not interfere if it snows .
The chickens like the new cover too they were roosting and hanging out.
Ill get more stuff this weekend
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Post by seminolewind on Dec 30, 2018 4:17:49 GMT -5
Those are remarkable pictures. What is tapa talk and how can I post the pics?
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Post by maryellen on Dec 30, 2018 21:55:23 GMT -5
Its a free app that you join and then you can upload pics right from your cell or laptop.
Tapatalk
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Post by maryellen on Dec 31, 2018 9:03:17 GMT -5
You log into the forum from the tapatalk app and then you can upload pics directly
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Post by seminolewind on Jan 4, 2019 17:21:46 GMT -5
ME, in FloridA My pens had to be predator proof because they had no coop and didn't need it. Here they need a coop due to the weather, so I am thinking they are not going to be left out at night, and I can not have to build the fort knox of pens. But no big holes. You had a visit from one really stupid hawk. And his mother wasn't too bright as well!
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Post by maryellen on Jan 4, 2019 19:17:55 GMT -5
The hawk is still around. But i have alot more fake plants as camouflage. The chickens dont go out unless im standing with them.
Yeah karen i have a friend in SC and she has an open coop and run .
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Post by seminolewind on Jan 6, 2019 22:52:29 GMT -5
Today I did poor man's hawk deterrant. I had about 10 empty yellow shavings bags and hung them all around the chickens. My daughter will say "how ghetto'".
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Post by maryellen on Jan 7, 2019 18:13:13 GMT -5
Yeah but if it works who cares!
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Post by Sylie on Jan 11, 2019 0:12:50 GMT -5
I feel very lucky not to have seen any hawks or anything other than canadian geese, vultures (they don't want anything alive so no worries), crows, a few grackles etc, nothing scary like hawks. I love your pen ME, it looks so "woodsy"
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Post by maryellen on Jan 11, 2019 7:18:00 GMT -5
Thank you Sylie, i added some fakes vines too. Come spring ill check garage sales for more fake plants as buying them new is too pricey
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Post by Sylie on Jan 11, 2019 10:31:57 GMT -5
Yeah, I get that, I should do that too, find some fake plants, I don't need them like you do but I'm sure the girls would enjoy some plant life (or...silk/plastic plant life)
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Post by seminolewind on Jan 11, 2019 11:21:04 GMT -5
I watched a few videos on youtube last night about hawks and they had some interesting video where the hawk was actually all over the outside of a coop looking for an opening. Another one where a hawk was waiting on the coop roof for a chicken to come out (that did). You couldn't see it but the poor chicken was screaming for quite a while. I didn't know that hawks would put so much energy into nabbing a chicken. ME, your hawk fits into that category probably.
Powell claims he saw a large hawk here and I can't wait to see that. I have to put posts up but the ground is frozen.
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Post by maryellen on Jan 11, 2019 16:22:10 GMT -5
Out here they sit and wait. A friend of mine 45 min away has them sitting on top of her coop roofs waiting...
The big red tail hawk i had here never bothered the chickens. The little nasty cooper hawk chased the big hawk away and has caused issues for 2 years now with me and my neighbors chickens
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