Hawk Killing a Chicken

In our front yard, a Broad Winged Hawk caught, killed, and then later ate one of our chickens. Hey; a Hawk's gotta eat, too.

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[Mommy1661]

This is disgusting! Why the heck did you not go out there and chase the hawk away. I have chickens and had to chase a hawk away from them a few times. Why would you just stand there and video tape it, instead of helping the helpless creature. People like you don't deserve to own animals. Talk about animal abuse. I just might send this video to the humane society!!!!

[EHarreschou]

@Mommy1661 - go ahead. As I posted 9 months ago: I didn't call the hawk up and invite him over. I was in the house, cooking dinner, when I heard the Guineas making their "Invader Alert" noise. By the time I got to the door, it was already too late to do anything for the chicken- so, I filmed it. It was already too late to save the chicken - that means it was already near dead - that means that it would not have done any good to chase the hawk away. Got it?

[peshewa0529]

Yea they have to eat too but not if thats part of your livelihood.

[EHarreschou]

@peshewa0529 - The chickens are not a part of my livelihood. I still have never seen another hawk since that one day. I eat the eggs. That's about it.

[10rosegarden14]

Oh come on! Billions of chickens get slaughtered everyday and in the most cruel way imaginable just for your dining pleasure and you people come here to whine? Just saying.

[EHarreschou]

@10rosegarden14: Too true! My neighbor will go to McDonald's and eat meat that was slaughtered in the worst ways imaginable... and turn around and say that she won't eat our pigs because they had names! At least they were livin' large and lovin' life while they were here... AND they were NOT tortured in their transition from alive to food either!!! I'd rather eat my farm-raised food that was loved, healthy, happy, and not killed by cruel means than ever eat "processed" meat!!

[shannonmink3006]

them guinneas were PEED OFF!!! lol

[goliac492]

Nature!!!!! All things have to eat. At least the Hawk didn't kill for "sport". Get a tougher rooster. Ours would fight for his hens. A turkey would do the same as well.

[noalmaltrato1000]

kill the hawk

[gerbilmaster21]

That hawk took a real risk, that chicken could have done some major damage with it's spurs

[peshewa0529]

Yes, I know I use to raise them when I lived on the farm. We did not have problems with hawks. They were few and far between. We had problems with red foxes and sometimes with racoons.

This was in 1965. I grew up in Ohio.

[CAmovieFan]

Yeah guys, get a rooster. A rooster can literaly kick the shit out of a hawk. Take better care of your chickens.

[ConsulOfTheAge]

@peshewa0529

It's part of the hawk's livelihood too. Chickens reproduce like crazy and are fairly cheap at a farmer's market and don't take very long to get adult-sized. The hawk is just doing what nature designed it to do: kill to survive. What better target than a dumb and flightless bird bread to have a lot of meat on it?