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I wish I have a backyard but I don't, so my babies don't have this preying birds issue... But, what about building something like this for those with a large yard? :rolleyes: Building A Chicken Pen | Backyard Chicken Keeping |
Guess i’ll Have to start tripling their meals. HaHa. The irony is that the orthopedist said to keep them light to make it easier on their knees. |
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Gosh. I appreciate all your good ideas. I feel so badly because the two love to run free, but obviously that can’t be now. They are really not too thin at seven pounds, but would be obese at 12. I did order the 64 inch golf umbrella. I cringe ever time I take them out. |
I didn't want to post a link to this man's Facebook page, but a friend of mind reposted his post from April 14. This man lives in Kansas, and they believe it was a hawk or owl that swooped down and grabbed their baby (full size long-haired Dacshund). The poor baby has talon puncture wounds on his back and near his front legs. We are loaded with owls and hawks here in Mississippi (too much open land here), as well as various land critters that are bigger than our boys. We let them use piddle pads, and if they go outside, we watch them (no pun intended) like a hawk. |
Aw, it's always such a piercing pain to read about furbabies who have been injured by birds this way. I can't imagine... just can't. I would hate myself forever. It'd be way too traumatic. Always better on a leash and watched like a hawk, than dead. |
Actually humans aren't that much of a deterrent. We have hawks and vultures and the occasional eagle. I never ever let Zeke out alone. Not even on the deck. A few days ago while walking Zeke a hawk started circling us and was getting fairly close so I picked up Zeke and the hawk came even closer so I started waving my free arm in the air and finally he backed away. Hawks are not to be played with. I always have Zeke on a leash and whenever I see them circling I keep Zeke very close. |
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True. Their time to hunt is around 5-7 pm and I now walk with a big walking stick. We haven't had one come close since that day. We have a heavily traveled path right next to my house and this last week there have been hundreds up and now. Wild flowers. I think maybe all the extra traffic may have caused the birds to move upstream. They will be back when it warms up again. Part of living in a beautiful place is co-existing with Nature. |
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We are in NH. Due to ongoing construction, the density of birds, deer, etc. increases each year. There are ***three*** hawk nests in the trees around our property. Before getting Fabian, we have seen them land/joust in our unfenced backyard. We are going to get chimes or something else shiny and moving as another poster suggested. We are extremely aware of our surroundings when we take him outside (ALWAYS on a leash) and we go in immediately whenever we see a sufficiently-large bird and cawing. I'm tempted to call Fish & Game, but don't want to end up on an episode of North Woods Law. <g> |
Not sure about other areas, but the red tailed hawk is an endangered species here. I got the 64inch umbrella and actually got to use it today. Two hawks appeared overhead and I pulled my two on their six foot leads as close to the house as possible as we made our way to the French doors with the umbrella spinning overhead. The hawks didn’t dive but I just went outside again, and now three are flying in circles overhead. Guess i’ll Just carry them outside one at a time under the umbrella, set one down to tend and bring back in. Of course, I will only bring each out when absolute necessary. This is crazy! Scary and crazy! |
I sometimes have vultures circling. It's hard to tell the difference for me. Red Tail Hawks. That's actually pretty cool. Not for the babies tho. On our walk yesterday I saw a garden with a fence around it and fencing over the top also. Perhaps you could build a similiar structure for the babies. |
Link below is to a thread on the site BackYard Chickens. Deterring Hawks? Much talk there about shiny objects. See post # 5. Do they make mylar umbrellas, or mylar fabric one could attach to the umbrella? |
It has been a long time since I’ve been on YT, but I have such a soft spot for the people and pups here. My dear friend sent me an AKC article about protecting our babies from coyotes and birds of prey. The article mentioned a vest designed to protect dogs from coyotes and hawks. If I needed to protect Katie from predators, I surely would purchase one of these. I am linking the XS and mini sizes, but they come larger. This is just the vest, but you need to add things to and spikes for coyotes. Look at the accessories. https://www.coyotevest.com/collectio...cts/hawkshield Coyote Attacks: How to Protect Your Dog From a Harmful Encounter I hope you and your babies are happy, healthy, and safe. |
WOW! Now I'm scared for my puppy! We have nesting bald eagles about a mile away, so our neighborhood is in their hunting area. We also have hawks. I keep him on a leash outside and never leave him alone, but it sounds like that isn't always successful! Poor puppy...he so loves running around in the back yard! My daughter has a high fence around her chicken run with a chicken wire "ceiling" to protect her chickens from predators. I think I'm going to try and figure out how to do that over the part of my yard where puppy likes to play. They say metallic things scare birds off. Does it scare off big ones? I thought maybe I could put a few posts around the yard and attach metallic streamers, used cd's and that sort of thing. Would probably be really ugly, think it would keep puppy safe? |
Some success. Yesterday I put six foot stakes, driveway lining poles, tall plant stakes and added Mylar strips to the tops. I then placed them about twelve feet apart in vertices rows in the yard. The wind carries the strips across the rows. For the first time in a month there are no visible hawks circling. Of course, I still have my two on short leads. Now this is not really tested and I carry the 64 inch umbrella too, but I am very hopeful. |
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I was telling the manager about how I keep Zeke close due to the hawks and she said most of them are vultures and they won't bother anything alive. Then just 5 minutes ago I walked out front and there was the partial remains of some larger bird. Perhaps a vulture itself because there was a mouse from the bird's? insides. The point of this is the body was just outside the covering of a very large shade tree. So I am going to be extra vigilant. The neighbors here all say a vulture couldn't pick up an 8 lb dog nor would they want it if it was alive but I don't know what else could have killed the bird. Very disconcerting. |
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The manager says it looks like an Eagle youngster and perhaps one of the vultures got it. So much for vultures only eating dead animals. Well I suppose it was killed before it was eaten. Very sad about it having been an Eagle. Yelp. Ever vigilant. |
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