The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: gmacp on December 08, 2010, 02:33:57 pm
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Wife went up to let the chickens out this morning - we keep them in an old stable and she found a dead female sparrowhawk lying in the middle of the floor.
Would love to know what happened in there? Maybe she panicked when she couldnt get out?
I assume the chciekns didn't gang up and kill her?
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Were there any marks on her? Had she been attacked? The chickens would have attacked her if she had gone to the floor, possibly taken ill, or cold got her
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They may as well have, they are killers if they get the opportunity :chook: :&>
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She must have been desperately hungry to have gone in there at all, then shock at being locked in and probably attacked by hens would have finished her. Very sad.
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I find here that they follow small birds into the run which are helping themselves at the hen food. Shame... :&>
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probably the cold my friend is a falconer and he had a sparrow hawk once and it was a night mare to keep the weight on it they can die while out flying n the could weather doesnt help much must have been pretty hard up