A Small Homestead

Welcome to my blog about our adventures on and away from our modest family homestead. We are a young family trying to raise as much of our own food as possible and still enjoy life while holding down full time jobs and work two small home based businesses. Life can get hectic and challenging but at the end of the day we have most importantly each other, good food on our table and a roof over our heads.

Sunday, August 26, 2012

Not a Fast Food Restaurant, please stop flying by!


This is the predator that thinks our farm is a fast food restaurant.  It's a Red Tailed Hawk.  We're super lucky, our invader is a rare white breed.  It has killed too many chickens to count.  Very, very frustrating.....





It keeps us looking up in the sky constantly and listening for it's distinctive cry.....



Way too often I have scared it unknowingly as it snacks on it's prey.  We have learned to listen for the warning signs from the hens that something is attacking.  But by then it is often too late.  





1 comment:

  1. I'm glad to be forewarned that this guy is in the neighbourhood...beautiful, but so distructive to a backyard flock.

    You got some amazing photos!

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