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Seeking Community Solutions for Hawk Predation

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Predator Strikes the Farm Again!

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Facing ongoing losses of his roosters to the Red-tailed Hawk (5 birds so far) and unable to legally remove the protected raptor, the farmer explicitly requests assistance from the audience. He asks for advice on effective and legal methods to deter the hawk and protect his chickens from aerial attacks. He emphasizes the importance of his "pasture sanitation crew" (chickens) for spreading manure and enriching the pasture, and his desire to protect his egg layers and not feed local wildlife. He concludes by urging viewers who have experienced similar raptor issues to share their solutions.

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I can't legally get rid of this problem. There is no way that I can legally get rid of this problem. So, the reason I'm here and the reason I'm talking to you guys about this is because I need your help. If you've ever experienced a raptor issue, an issue from above, um, and you know of a way to stop this, please post comments down there. I just simply don't have any idea how to stop this this hawk from swooping down and getting my chickens. Uh, he's not, which is a good thing, he's not eating or catching the hens. He's catching the roosters. And typically these these chickens are bigger than that hawk. Um so the other day I walked up here and I knew the hawk had been around. I had seen him a couple times in these trees up here. And I walked over here and all the chickens were still hanging out here, but they were kind of looking that way. That hawk was sitting there right there with the chickens and eating another chicken. Just sitting there eating another chicken right in front of the chickens. And all the chickens are sitting there like, "Dr. I think this hawk is just landing. It's coming down here and it's landing and it's just walking up and picking out a rooster. One of the roosters maybe goes at it and tries to fight it. It just grabs it and eats it. It's weird. Very, very weird. So, you can see they're all on high alert right here. uh worried about they've actually ate less food here in the last I'd say four or five days uh because they're nervous about the hawk getting them. And I understand. I totally do. So, um before we leave here, I'm going to look in the coupe and see. We're starting to get eggs right now. So, I'll show you guys how this mobile coupe works in these roll out nest boxes work. But, I like to take this down. We'll go ahead and open up. There's a lot of manure in here. That's okay. We're going to be scooping out that manure and utilizing it out here in the pasture. That's what the whole goal here is, is to sanitize behind the cows. These chickens, you won't see a cow patty anywhere out here. These chickens scrape through the cow patties and spread them out and help spread nutrition out on the pasture. That's what it's all about. And they create these wonderful eggs. So, you do see a lot of manure. And I'll be scooping this out and spreading it out on areas that need more nutrition on the farm. So, let's look in our hengear nest boxes real quick and see if any of these little hins are laying yet. If we've seen any, that's a sign…

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