How to keep owls away?
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Melinda
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I have free range chickens and the owls kill them when they are small
how to keep owls away with out causing the owl any harm ?
I tried lights , scarecrows and playing a radio where they roost but without any luck.
The owl keeps coming back every night.
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I've heard the fake snakes attached to wall and on ground could help! Maybe Owls are just smart!
Even free range chickens need a safe place at night! Do you have a house for chickens to roost? Can you build a pen for them at night that you can put camoflauge netting over? that would keep the owls out
Your owls have learned where the food is. I would gather up your chickens & put them into a ""holding area"". Build a cage out of wood, chicken wire & screws with a door. Replace your chickens & the owls can't get to them. Here's examples:
I have several pens all have tops i keep the chicks in until they are about 6 weeks old then I open the pen and they come and go as they wish. I just bought motion activated lights I'm going to try that tonight .
the owl is killing chicks and hens but it don't eat them it just drops them.
I live in city limits so I think it maybe use to the noise.
aren't your chickens put up at night? i don't know anything about chickens but i always thought they were secured at night.
They fly up in the trees at night
they are free range we don't cage them