Hawks for you adc guys
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01/20/17 09:22 PM
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Don't post here much, but is there some way to deter hawks away to keep them from the chickens or do I just have to fire warning shots at them?
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Re: Hawks for you adc guys
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01/25/17 11:08 AM
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Ok is there any way to get a permit to shoot these things?
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Re: Hawks for you adc guys
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01/25/17 02:55 PM
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I have a couple of neighbors who lose half their flock every year to raptors. They complain but will not do what needs to be done to protect their birds.
Birds can still free range with movable shelter but the fact is, if you let your birds run around unprotected, you will lose some or all. That is very true. But when people come tour my farm and pay $7 a dozen for eggs and can see chickens running around, they like the idea of that better then being in a moveable enclosure.
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Re: Hawks for you adc guys
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01/27/17 01:49 AM
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I use flagging tape. Run a few rows over their run if is not too large. I see raptors flying over my birds run and have never lost a bird to them.
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Re: Hawks for you adc guys
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01/27/17 06:07 AM
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That is very true. But when people come tour my farm and pay $7 a dozen for eggs and can see chickens running around, they like the idea of that better then being in a moveable enclosure. I can certainly understand that. How many birds are you losing? Are your birds in a secure coop at night?
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Re: Hawks for you adc guys
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01/27/17 01:56 PM
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We even have folks here who have nesting hawks in their yard on their property and bombing folks and it is rare any removal is ever allowed and if it is, it is always federal or state avian biologists who come and do the removal.
Trump has said he is going to protect us. I wonder if that includes everyday poultry farmers?
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Re: Hawks for you adc guys
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01/27/17 06:05 PM
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I pulled that up on a law website, this looks like it refers to trapping, firbearers or pests of a non federally protected type no?
It states from "any predatory bird or animal". As long as the trap is made of steel.
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Re: Hawks for you adc guys
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01/28/17 10:54 AM
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That is very true. But when people come tour my farm and pay $7 a dozen for eggs and can see chickens running around, they like the idea of that better then being in a moveable enclosure. I can certainly understand that. How many birds are you losing? Are your birds in a secure coop at night? They are secured at night and it's not uncommon to lose 5 a day. Some times less sometimes more.
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Re: Hawks for you adc guys
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01/28/17 08:13 PM
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They are gone, just a ring of feathers. Most of the time the chickens head into a strip that as buck thorn and stuff in it to hide but once they come out into the grass they get picked off.
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