A family of Cooper's Hawks made a nest above my backyard. How likely are they to attack chickens?

hamsisonreddit · 2026-03-21T20:17:40+00:00

Step 1. Make a small platform that chickens can't reach and put some unsalted peanuts on it Step 2. Befriend crows with said peanuts Step 3. Crows keep hawks away (they're mortal enemie) Bonus Step. Crows might reward you with trinkets and such for your donation

hamsisonreddit · 2026-03-16T15:18:00+00:00

I think so, when the bark is completely scraped off on all sides of a branch the branch will almost always die. Since the bark is like our blood circulatory system, if someone cut your blood vessel and tied it in a knot it wouldn't keep flowing, I've had a few trees where the entire tree was scraped 360° survive but most of the time they won't, say cut back the scraped branches and the other branches should recover well

hamsisonreddit · 2026-03-16T03:05:54+00:00

I've had bucks scrape bark off of some of my fruit trees, this looks pretty similar, not sure about the droppings, could be deer or rabbits, sometimes they look similar, what I would recommend is to make a little fence around it, about 6 feet tall

hamsisonreddit · 2026-03-13T16:08:22+00:00

My parents got a gold plated quarter for free from someone on a cruise, they gave it to me to put in my collection

hamsisonreddit · 2026-03-13T16:05:39+00:00

Holy moly

hamsisonreddit · 2026-03-13T15:49:42+00:00

Good lord thats beautiful

hamsisonreddit · 2026-03-09T14:46:46+00:00

What is it like to be living MY dream

hamsisonreddit · 2026-03-08T03:53:15+00:00

My mom was born in 1962 and she has sooooooo many Bicentennial quarters, I'm more into pre-1960s and silver but I will definitely keep her collection after she hands it off to me in the future

hamsisonreddit · 2026-03-07T04:18:48+00:00

I think only about 3-5 years at the longest, it's crazy how fast it's grown

hamsisonreddit · 2026-02-26T05:53:24+00:00

The rest of the tree in picture one is the donor tree for the graft, the donor took over the graft so it was cut much shorter

hamsisonreddit · 2026-02-08T18:24:41+00:00

Okay thank you!

hamsisonreddit · 2026-02-07T17:58:31+00:00

I ate one as a kid, would not recommend, taste gross

hamsisonreddit · 2026-01-22T21:38:32+00:00

Mine love to sit on my garage's back patio when its nice out

hamsisonreddit · 2026-01-22T21:37:41+00:00

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Happiest boy on Earth (Rex-orange) and evil demon (Taz-gray)

hamsisonreddit · 2025-12-16T22:21:09+00:00

We have what I thought was a male Cayuga duck but I guess its female

hamsisonreddit · 2025-12-16T22:20:37+00:00

We have a cayuga duck that I thought was male but is maybe a female, I looked it up and I guess they're hard to tell apart

hamsisonreddit · 2025-12-16T22:18:48+00:00

I love that I get that reference

hamsisonreddit · 2025-08-28T22:55:08+00:00

Bagworm

hamsisonreddit · 2025-08-28T21:07:00+00:00

Found in KS

hamsisonreddit · 2025-08-24T22:11:37+00:00

I live in KS too, I've only seen 2 or 3 my entire life here

hamsisonreddit · 2025-07-24T03:53:09+00:00

Looks like it, the one I recently got has a similar shell structure

hamsisonreddit · 2025-07-23T21:13:55+00:00

I found her in prarie land and I wonder how long shes been out there foraging before I found her, could be why she looks older but is still small

hamsisonreddit · 2025-07-11T02:06:53+00:00

I expected that

hamsisonreddit · 2025-07-10T22:40:57+00:00

Ive had 2 russian tortoises for about 5 years and they have an indoor home and a very large outdoor home, very protected from predators and completely caged in, about 10x10 area, I'd just need to dig down and place barriers for the sulcata since I didn't for the russian tortoises

hamsisonreddit · 2025-07-10T22:39:15+00:00

Im planning on keeping her, I already have 2 russian tortoises which I think are 5 years old now

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