Last week B.S. (before snow), there was a commotion in the chicken yard and when I went down to investigate, this red tailed hawk had one of Chris' hens pinned under a rhododendron bush and was commencing to devour it. I was able to pry it off the poor chicken but he soon came back and roosted on top of the chicken shed waiting for another chance. The poor old hen survived, a little beat up but alive. But, then a couple days later "our" Goshawk showed up at killed another of the hens. They have been locked in since but have been too shook up to lay egss. There's always something down on the farm!
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What a great shot. Sorry to hear about the hen disturbance. Hopefully they'll be back to laying eggs in no time. Is there anything you can do to shoo the hawk away? Maybe some kind of scent that you can lay down or something?
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