5 Pound Chicken Survives Attack by 15 pound Hawk

[loblollydreams]

Hawks are only doing what comes natural to hawks. I would discourage any of you from shooting them, even if they are coming after your livestock. I say that as a chicken and poultry owner. We obviously don't care about some laws here, but I will point out that shooting a hawk or other raptors is a state AND federal crime, and you can land yourself in jail or with a big whopping $50,000 fine if you are caught, as it should be. I'd also suggest to those of you breaking one law by growing weed that perhaps you should count your blessings and not break others and bring undo attention to yourself.

I am glad your chicken is alright! Losing them to predators is tough.

 

[mrS0ul]

Uh oh.






.....Spot on. Nature man! It's the Natural order 100% /but/
personally I care fuckall for what the law dictates. I am equipped with a ethical/moral compass for reasons in not harming hawks.

No disrespect for those that follow this ideal, those that obey the man or those that follow the law of the jungle where if the hawk fucks with the bull's chickens he gets the horns. That is also natural order.

Viva Natural Order.


~S0ul

 

[minds_I]

hmmmm, chicken....

leave the hawk be...I love chickens, love them fried, stewed, baked, jerked....love chickens

 

[St. Phatty]

Here is a picture of the Happy Couple.

That is a worm castings pile I've been working on for about 5 years. Especially to reward the rooster and make him feel like his new home is Rooster Heaven, letting him have some worms.

The rooster is a Black Marans. This particular hen is a Black Sex Link. Wierd name but they sort of remind me of greyhounds. Very fast. For a few months when they were called one would run and then the one behind would fly to get to the food sooner.

I tried to encourage their athleticism as much as possible without going as far as putting weighted vests on them and making them walk uphill.

I guess from months 2 to 4, I gave them daily flying lessons where I dropped them off the edge of a small cliff (about 10 feet) and they always flew up in the air and back to the 'upper lawn' we were standing on.

And that is a pot plant, I think a male one, there on the worm castings. Didn't know what to do with it and thought composting it seemed all right.

 

[Robrites]

Sex Links are world champ layers. Nice large brown eggs. I usually get the blond ones but got two black ones last spring. They are terrible nesters though IME and are hard to get chicks from.

 

[stoned-trout]

I don't break fish and game laws..drug laws are another story....yeehaw

 

[Eltiburón]

wildlife is surprising ,
when I was a kid living in the Amazon region , I have seen a harpy carrying an adult hen without the slightest effort.
Another time I was playing in a river with my brother and my dog. ​​My dog ​​disappeared , I looked around and found an anaconda with a ball in belly she was slowly entering the water.
I never saw the dog again.The most impressive is that i weighed around 70 pounds , the dog was certainly much heavier .
This dog was a dog experienced hunter of wild pigs.

 

[atk7]

We have hawks here and the chickens I have always head for cover when they spot them. I have areas that the chickens can go under when they feel spotted . And the pen around the hen House has a chicken wire roof to prevent attacks from above . I can tell when hawk or eagle in area just by the sounds the chickens are making.

 

[St. Phatty]

Found the 2 Black hens fighting over a lizard around lunchtime.

Not sure which one won the tug of war.

As far as I can tell, the hens eat more than the rooster, yet he's twice their size.

 

[stoned-trout]

would make sense tho as they are shooting eggs out their rear,, he aint,,,,yeehaw