Hawk predator kills chicken
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- čas přidán 17. 02. 2010
- This is sad. After losing a chicken yesterday, we set cameras up on the chicken coop, suspecting a racoon. Here, you see a hawk come in and take out my favorite chicken, a Black Wyandot named "Sassypants." The video is for informative purposes only. It's not gory, just very sad. I will be making some alterations to my chicken coop soon. For now, all the remaining chickens are locked up and quite safe. This was shot Feb. 18, 2010 in Port Orchard, Washington. If you are sensitive, turn down your sound.
You can't leave the top of your coop open bro, Rookie mistake.
He just went through it. The squares are too big. They just go through the squares. They need tighter fencing.
And yet so many videos of people doing it.
That was a Coopers Hawk. They are fast and cunning. I'm sorry for your loss. Coops must ALWAYS be covered.
Its sad to just hear the chicken slowly and slowly stop making noise
I agree. That was terrible to hear. :(
Yes
Ehh
that's the hawk making that noise, chicken was already dead
@@jacksonpierre3535 no, no it was not.
Why didn't they cover the top? Also, these chickens are making such a loud sound being killed. Our chickens went absolutely quietly.
He choked that chicken.
Shocking. I always thought hawks attacked from the air. Never knew they walked around to grab something. The boogie man of the fowl world. Thanks for the video. Poor hen.
Cooper's hawks do as well as others
Goshawks are jungle fighters. They hunt in the forests.
Hawks and owls will even CRAWL THROUGH a hole to get inside. They are pretty smart.
Rooster had the day off?
THIS IS ONE OF THE FUNNIEST COMMENTS EVER
@@CCJ3literally
Plenty of evidence of fowl play.
That poor chicken was screaming in agony for about 1 full minute. I thought it was instantaneous. As a chicken owner who has found piles of feathers a few times, I am horrified to realize that it is not as fast a death as I had hoped. I know it is the way of nature, but nature is cruel.
"I thought it was instantaneous"
- ? talons and a beak, instantaneous?! THINK
Thanks for putting this up. We have been losing chickens during the day and have been very unsure. I just saw some kind of bird of prey over the chicken run and I went out after it and we're another girl down. That's 5 in the last 2 weeks... We even have a hen, but no protection for a bird of prey, apparently. I had to turn the sound off on your video, so sad.. but thanks for the information. we'll make alterations for our (girl and boy) not too.
I really don't get why people are so butthurt over this video. You see the title of the video so you should know what was gonna happen. Shouldn't have watched if you're too sensitive.
Lost a hen yesterday I’ve had for 6 years. She was one of my backyard hens, i hand raised and I still remember gathering worms for her when it rained. I live in a suburban area so I thought I’d be fine with predators but one night I left them outside. They usually sleep on the playhouse beams (the coop is on the bottom of the playhouse) but yesterday all I saw was a small trail of blood and feathers everywhere. Everything wants chickens I guess. Sorry this happened I understand how it feels because they feel like part of the family.
Well it was old and could not escape. So eat the damn things. That is what they are made for. If you won't, a predator will.
@@haylobos8261 I'm looking at the manufacturer data for chickens and I don't see any notes about what it's "made for".
Why not have a mesh roof on the top? So foolish...
Indeed...
But.... then there would be no video!!!
Chris Daldy-Rowe shut up its to save the chickens life.... who cares if their is no exciting video smh
As a chicken owner, I appreciate this video to help me protect my chickens from predator hawks...As horrifiying as it is, we have all been through this & I am so sorry that you had to witness this attack on your favorite chicken....In order to protect our birds, we have to know how they get in & attack.
I have never been through this!!! Just saying...!
I've worked my fingers to the bone making a predator proof coop and run for a couple chickens.(I started on it in back in March and I'm still patching holes!!!) Going on 8 months now and they're all still alive!!! Not everyone leaves holes big enough for a predator to walk thru.
Hawk just killed my chicken smh. Thanks for this video
Thank you so much for posting this!!! I have a big barn and I could not fathom that a hawk would walk all the way into my barn and kill one of my chickens in the nesting boxes. So sad!! it just blew my mind that they would be that brave. What did you do to protect your chickens so it wouldn't happen again?
Yeah what did you do
OP, thank you for posting this. Though heartbreaking to watch, it has helped to eliminate a suspect in the taking of my friend's rooster. Based on this video and others, we are now pretty sure it was a fox.
so sorry for your loss, one of mine was killed today by a hawk, I was wondering what the heck happened, you have a very nice pen, if you had known i'm sure you would have put a top on it, I have a full enclosed pen but let them out during the day. she was my fav chicken, she'd sit at the kitchen window and watch me doing dishes, she'd jump in the red wagon with my son and ride around, she'd also jump in the car when we opened the door. Never knew they'd jump in there like that! Thanks
You need good size rooster there with the chickens to protect them,my grand mom had a same issue,but once rooster was there,2 different hawks came back in a week span and rooster killed them both.
I got four hens and two roosters. I have seen hawks like that one hanging around, but they never attempt to swoop in. People don't quite understand that a rooster is kinda important to have around.
I will add that I lost a hen last September to a hawk, because of rooster fear, someone let the hens roam outside the coop alone and a hawk picked off our weakest hen.
Scott89878 Many places have laws against keeping roosters. Only hens are allowed.
SugarSnap Mama So, you don't keep chickens in Suburbia, and if you do, have a small dog in the backyard too. I've a Pomeranian that runs around the yard with the two very aggressive roosters (and they get along). I have hedged the odds against the hawks, as a hawk would have to: fight two roosters and a dog to get a meal. And with the noise made, I'd be out there within a minute or two. My roosters got sharp spurs though, I could trim them or file them, but I kinda want them to have them for the hawks. My roosters can kick pummel them three times in one jump. Not to mention my roosters were larger than every other chicken in the fair (not if only I could have entered them in). Meanwhile, the dog marks the yard with her excretory habits and I do a bit as well, being a guy in the middle of nowhere, so silly foxes and such tend to stay away too.
We live in the Suburbs, and I don't see a reason why we can't have hens just like anyone else. As for Roosters, they're great, but no match for a coyote or a fox anyway. I have 2 big dogs. They're great for protection, but they can't be outside with the chickens all the time. We have coyotes, foxes, hawks, opossums, and racoons,so...we built our coop like Fort Knox. Only way to do it.
I love chickens I have many and love them to death this made me cry
About a year ago I looked out and saw a hawk standing on top of my coop just like the hawk was doing on yours. I didnt have a shotgun but I grabbed my little .22 rifle and missed on the first shot (which surprisingly didnt scare it away) but hit it and killed it on the second shot. I dont know what kind of hawk it was or if it was legal or not but I would do it again anyday to protect my birds. Sorry for your loss.
Protected species
@@terrysmith5564 You can kill protected species if you catch them in the act.
As the Hawk says to Foghorn Leghorn "I'm a chicken hawk, and I like chickens"
Yes very sad, but thank you for posting. I am looking to build a coop and need to know the possible predators and the ways they get to the chickens. Did you put a screen on your run after this incident?
That would be the only way the posters can redeem themselves is by posting a video of them resolving to cover the top of the run.
My, what a dazzling display of maturity and wit.
This is terribly sad! We lost 3 chick - 45 days old this week (medium size) and so we were trying to figure out what got to them. Eggs disappeared too. We fixed the chicken coop (thought we did good). Obviously, we will be building a new one this week. We kept thinking it was raccoon or dogs but there's was no trace of the chicks. This morning, one of our rooster is dead and a mature chicken is missing lots of feathers. I never thought of a darn hawk 'till now. Thanks for this video.
So much for helping your friends out when they are in trouble
thats why you should have a big strong rooster
or an electric fence
Wow. Thanks for posting this! Very sad though, sorry for you loss.
This further supports my decision to let my chickens free range, and only be locked in the coop at night for protection. Please put some netting over that run!
We are dealing with this too. Our Large Wyandot Rooster was killed today.I cannot believe that this hawk,which is huge could kill this large rooster..I know they are doing what they have to do to find food. But we've lost 3 ducks,3 chickens in the last 2 weeks..The Hawks are here everyday..day in and day out..I'm very upset about this. We are going to start working on ways to protect the flock better,because I can't take much more of this..
We have a hawk that has been living in our neighbor for about 8 months now, without any problems from it. But just yesterday, it attacked our two chickens (we let them walk around our yard, with our dogs) just as I arrived from school as it was happening. Now, this morning I saw the same hawk perched on a rail next to our house.
Yeah, looks like a Cooper hawk. A few days ago I saw something kind of interesting. A friend and I stopped by a little store the other day. The store sells chicken coops and supplies for raising chickens. Now this is in the city mind you, Seattle to be exact. They also sell chickens and ducks. They have chickens out of doors in coops. When we left I looked up in to a small tree nearby and there was what I believe to be a Coopers hawk right next door to the store. Waiting to get his chance.
So sorry! How terrible! Just today my hens where out free range. My fiance walked out and saw a big redtail hawk and one of my hens just laying in the yard. He ran out to check on my hen and she just sat there. Usually they wont let us pick them up. He picked her up and put her in the shed where all the others had ran to. I went out to check on her. She couldn't open one eye and her ear lobe was cut. I just hope she's ok. She hid back in a corner. Will find out in the morning when I feed them.
We live in Silverdale, found this type of hawk on top of one of our chickens while they were free-ranging. Wasn't afraid of me or our dog! What type of hawk is it? I keep hearing about coopers but when I look up their description they seem smaller than what I saw today.
A big female Cooper's Hawk can be much larger than a small male but it could have been something else. Do you have any photos?
I have a chicken coop with 28 chickens, and yeah we have the fencing on the top just for this reason
Oh,that is sad that this happened. Can't blame Hawk but if this is the second time it has happened then you must scare it off if it ever shows up again. Though if I ever hear this happening to any of my chickens then that Hawk is getting a good kick to the face lol
Btw, did you not have a rooster? Because it is always good to have one. Since they will usually fight if their hens are in danger. A least mine always end up that anyway lol
***** That first chicken out of the coop was the rooster best I could tell. Roosters are funny, I have only had one out of 20 that would fight a hawk. Most of em run away. Although they may still be good for alerting the flock before a hawk strikes.
I just lost a chicken to a predator, and I suspect it was a hawk. The chicken's crop was eaten, the neck was plucked off of meat. What did your chicken looked like after it was attacked?
My grandmas chickens used to run free, but then she had to coupe them up. A falcon got stuck on the chain link roof.
@dlong1761 Oh no, you had a wonderful chicken. Did you raise her since she was a baby? How you make a chicken to be that special. I am sorry for the lost, chickens are adorable
Thank you for the education. I was under the assumption they wouldn't attack from the ground, but rather be forced to swoop in for the kill. Hopefully Sassypants' death will help to save others :)
Exactly what I thoughtv
Did the hawk just eat the chicken's head?
check description
A bird eats a bird. That's fucked up.
ok at first i thought you were filming and allowing this to happen. My heart was pumping and i called u some very bad names. Then i read that this camera was set up and caught this horrible thing. ahhhhhh! poor chicken. the food chain can kiss my grits.
This is very sad because my chickens are my Pets!!. It is clear to me that this chicken was eaten alive. What a horrible thing for the poor creature to go through. My advise to this person that posted this is to enclose the top of the run.. The sad truth is Hawks have to eat too and they like any other species will try to survive. Sad though. I hope you worked out something. This video made me cry....
Manchester Moon I know but it is called life cycle
My hens are totally aware when a hawk is about. They freeze and won't take their eyes off it till it leaves the area.
Untangledup - thanks for posting. I'm thinking about building a coop and I have many hawks on my property. I know it's been a while, but please post again to let us know how you solved the problem. And ignore the morons who comment, they shame themselves.
What did the hawk do with the chicken after the slow death
We just had a two foot tall red tail hawk kill one of our silkies. I saw it right after it happened out the kitchen window sitting on top of him, it didn't manage to eat much of him. I had no idea they killed this way, always thought they wanted to hit with force and speed rather than walking up on one like this.
***** They typically measure 18 to 26 inches in length.
***** It was larger than my head rooster at the time which was a Delaware rooster. I never had a chance to get the measuring tape out and measure it, but it was somewhere around the order of two feet. I got a couple pictures of it when it landed on a branch 50 yards out, but without reference around it, judging it's size is difficult. I noticed it's size when it was on top of my silky rooster eating it. Maybe it was even big for a red tailed hawk.
Ah Washington state. Look at the U haul trucks. They have a picture of the Goshawk, which this was, on their trucks.
The hawk was a Northern Goshawk. A Rooster could help to protect your hens but Not against a Female Goshawk. Females are about 1/3 larger than the males.
PEOPLE,READ THE DAMN DESCRIPTION,JEEZ.
That Hawk probably wanted some Barbecue sauce afterwards.
This person did not sit there and watch. The description clearly stated that they set up cameras to see what was killing the chickens. They werent there when it happened. Also, it is not stupid...most never expect a hawk to be so maneuverable on the ground.
If you are away shut any holes on your chicken pen, when you are present leave the holes that the Hawk can get in from and be alert when those similar sounds of carnage start, grab your firearm and you know what comes after that. I am alert all the time by keeping some of the Windows slightly open in my house so that i know when it is time act.
Were these standard chickens?!
poor thing it was horrible hearing the chicken screaming like that had to turn of sound hope you have managed to get better security so you dont have to go thru such a devastating loss of chickens again
Why is there no top??
Was that Sassypants crying?
Looks like a Northern Goshawk. You are not supposed to feed wild birds. It makes them dependent on humans.
agree!
this reminds me of foghorn leghorn and chicken hawk from lunny toons
Was there a rooster in there with them? I'm wondering if a rooster would try and defend them against a hawk.
I'm sure sassy pants appreciate your sympathy
And that is why you should put a roof/covering over your chicken coop.
When the noise stops dinner is ready.
Talk about a Raptor Attack!
same,
Im hearing a hawk right now because im outside rightnow guarding my chickens because yesterday i came outside and while i was walkingout of the garage i saw a hawk come within half of of a foot of getting my brothers golden comet hen
and Angel, "chickens have feelings just like we have." or you are beautiful. I just love these comments, I could write the script of the next "Deliverance" here. thank you all, stay in school please
Did you really think your chickens were safe in an open-top pen?
Heartbreaking! I'm in Gig Harbor - both of my roosters were attacked and killed last weekend. I'm trying to figure out what got them. :(
and you sit and watch it. wow.
pellet gun hell I have a 12 gauge waitin on a hawk that picks mine off. no remorse
Protected species.
Who gives a s*** about the law said they are protected species if they're killing my crops f*** them they did
Once my almost grown rooster was on my play set and out of nowhere came this hawk that swept down and almost took down my rooster but luckily my rooster doged the attack I was only a few feet away
weve been havin halk problem lately and i havent seen nothing of it for like a moonth now and i go to my chicken coop and one of my pure whit frizzles is missing all that was left was its heart some intestants and its legs
A huge hawk as big as a eagle attacked my white silkie rooster yesterday 10/22. I only had went inside a minute. Chickens were free ranging a bit , my others were screaming & i ran outside to see that huge bird sitting on ROO ! Nothing scared it. I shot a gun in air! It finally flew up in a tree after 10 minutes & i had to shoot my rooster who was laying there flopping. It was so extreme & almost killed me too to do it.
so sad. I found a hawk taking extraordinary measures to get into my pigeon loft yesterday. they're like half bird half racoon. Bent the thin metal bars on a dog crate style enclosure trying to get in. WTF
Wowww
Having a livestock dog helps also. Back in the old days of common sense, if some thing was infringing on your life... you put an end to it, plain and simple. If anything comes after family, pets, food, personal property, it's lights out. Makes no difference to me who or what it is.
Yep. I have a closet full of fur that belonged to those who came after my babies.
Were owners watching and didnt come out to help or didnt hear, why was there no cover for them.
I think I got the gist of what the chicken was trying to say.
Bottle rockets my ass. I don't give a good gd what the law is, the first hawk I see is going to get a load of Remington Turkey Nitro #5 shot, PERIOD. I've invested a lot of money in my French Black Copper Marans and I'll be damned if the Federal Government is going to reimburse me when one of their protected hawks kill my chickens. Yes I'm taking all precautions, but I will protect what is mine. I have that right, law be damned.
TheCah13 you dumbass sheep, shut the fuck up and keep living in your fake little world.
TheCah13 you usin big words in that big sentence to edit huh.... lmaoo
this isn't an office email where professionalism matters. spelling/grammar whiners are the bottom feeders of the internet... both my degrees and wallet would crush you. pathetic bitch.
i don't know what the law is like where you live but here you can kill anything that attacks your livestock including the neighbor's dog.
that coop should have had a top over it but at the same time you have to protect your property and chickens should not be cooped up all the time.
Poor little chickens :( I have 4 of them, and living in the mountains in California Im always watching for Hawks!!
Sassypants was male or female?
It's sad this happens in the world
@janitabonn I did raise her since a chick, I think it has to do with the personality of the chicken, I raised all my chickens, she was the only one like that, When I picked her out among the other day old chicks at the hatchery, i decided to do a little experiment, I waited to see who came up to me, I put my hand in the cage and she came up and pecked me, I didn't want all chickens to be like that in case she turned out mean, so there you have it, she wasn't scared, the others were
Aw, sorry about ol' Sassy pants..... :(
I have chickens loose all day on my property.and have a lot of Red Shoulder Hawks flying around the property. I clap with a good pop that sounds like a gun shot whenever I see them on the property. The hawks keep away. If I saw one of them actually going after my chickens they are dead. They seem to understand that.
Those chickens are so annoying when they make a fuss.
is that the chicken making that sound?
haha..That was awesome!! out of all those chickens he got your favorite one..lmao.. sucks. Was it eating the chicken alive?
Haha. Even more funny when one day you get mugged on the street by some criminal and left for dead. You must me a millennial or a teenager. Haha!
That is bloody aweful sorry for your loss... i have two pet cochin bantams (which i have videos of on here :) ) and i dread the day something like this may possibly happen. Ive really made sure my pen is completely secure and if it comes to it as a last resort a rifle... not wanting to kill anything but lets face it our chickens come frirst...
This looks like a female Cooper's Hawk. Man I didn't know they are abel to take on a Chicken.
You should cover the open space of your Chickencoop.
I know Goshawks take Chicken but a Cooper's Hawk. .. ok now its obvious.
They pick the smaller chickens.
That looks like a Northern Harrier, they have killed my chickens too. :(
Same thing happened to me ! I put chicken wire over the whole top.
& filled in any holes anywhere.....You need to buy a nice long riffle .22 with a scope.
oh gosh the poor chicken ....took it quite some time to die. ughhh the pain and agony :(
Talk about not helping your friends out in need.
+Lawrence Lepes Read the description. The camera was set up there to figure out how their chickens were getting killed so they could prevent it from continuing. No one was there to help the chicken at the time and the owner has taken measures to keep them safe in the future.
That was a joke. I was talking about the other chickens not helping the one chicken in need.
+Lawrence Lepes Sorry. There's a lot of people here accusing the maker of the video of letting their chicken die on film in front of them.
Were we supposed to have been able to see anything?
Oh my go😖😭 my heart is beating so hard i my hands r shaking while hearing the noise of the chickens
Go outside you maniac
lol you good homie?
When i hear those sounds coming from my henhouse i know right away what to do and that is to get dressed if am not already, grab my gun and some more ammo, get in there as fast as i can, identify and shoot at the predator killing my livestock and fill the bloody thing with bullets. Simple as that. All that without a moment of hesitation and fear, with intent to do what must be done.
Sad!! something eat my favorite rooster. Now I purchased a net to put on top. Damn hawks
That chicken got taken to the woodshed.
I'm surprised why didn't you put cage on the top ? My friend has cage on the top because Eagle coming and take chicken away...
If you had Turkeys in the pen, the hawk would stand no chance
Poor thing
1:41 I start to LMAO its so funny
Like I saw in Disney animation when someone try to mess inside that pen LOL
I laughed my butt off! gawk! hahaha