Canesisters 2023 journal - turning my Disasters into Delights

[SageHill]

What I'm going to try, I think, is to pound the posts in so that the flat sides (with the knobbies) are facing out to the fence and the 'T' is toward the gate. Then using a U-bolt around the post & panel, I can secure the vertical of the panel against 1 side of the 'T' - which, I THINK, will let the gate swing 90* into the chicken's yard.
... does that make any sense? It's hard to explain these things sometimes...

That makes perfect sense. I think it'll work fine for awhile. Then something on the opening side to keep it closed and you're all set.

 

[Baymule]

We aint buttercups

I’m a Southern Magnolia.

 

[canesisters]

.. beautiful blooms but the leaves are so tough they can be used to tile a bath

 

[canesisters]

Learned a complicated medical term today while googling the difference between a sprain and a break
FOOSH (fall on out stretched hand)
Which I think is hilarious because that is the sound you are likely to make while falling on an out stretched hand!

 

[canesisters]

I'm a mimosa - glorious - but only for brief seasons. Too stubborn to kill on purpose but tends to shrivel if pampered.

 

[canesisters]

Today's non-fence building activity:

 

[frustratedearthmother]

YUM!

 

[Baymule]

That looks delicious!

 

[canesisters]

A long time ago, over on TEG, a member used to post about using "boy cat pee litter" to help keep varmints away from his garden.
I did a deep clean today of the back room where my cats' boxes are and decided what the heck, I'll dump this (waay overdue for a dump) box along the fence line that the possums & raccoons use to come visit my back porch.
As I'm walking the fence line, I step around a tree & surprise a hawk having a chicken dinner.
Sure enough... my favorite hen - who gets out every day - has become prey.
Can't really be mad at the hawk.. just doing what a hawk does. Fat chicken alone in a pasture is fair game I suppose.
Since it got an easy meal, I assume it'll be back. So I go get a couple rolls of fishing line from the barn & put up the 'web' above the chicken yard. I took it down a year ago after an ice storm made it sag very, very low & just never got around to putting it back up.
I can't help but wonder....
If I hadn't hurt my wrist - and if I had been out there all day working on their yard - would the hawk have kept away?
Since I'll be taking down fence sections & moving them, the girls will be loose the day(s) I do it.... might there have been several injured instead of 1 lost?
How would I have known that a hawk was hunting them & would I have put the web up if I had been out there & the hawk not attacked?
Poor Ladybug.

Does anyone happen to know if a hawk will return to its kill if frightened off of it?

 

[SageHill]

I don't know for sure - but the hawks around here have their territory and pretty much stick to that. Could be a resident hawk and all the stars aligned for a chicken dinner. - I'd think that it lives somewhere nearby and could be hunting around you again.