Don't anti hawk CDs, flash tape or pie tins scare chickens too?

[jmc]

I wanna cut a bunch of silver and red 'flash tape' (the stuff that is strung up to keep birds from eating sown seeds etc.) into streamers and hang them from strung fishing line. But i can't see that motion and flashing from above NOT also scaring the chooks..............

anyone use this stuff or the like.........?

 

[Judy]

I think the chickens probably get used to them. It's the reflection that is supposed to scare the hawks.

 

[muddyhorse]

mine are used to it, I have anti bird net over the pens. you can get a 15' x45' roll at home depo for $19. the flash tape is so I don't have to remove a hawk tangled in the net

 

[flowergirl60]

I have pie pans dangling on string and it doesn't bother my girls at all.

 

[jmc]

thanks for replies.

 

[baldessariclan]

The chickens will get used to it in short order. Unfortunately, so will the hawks...

 

[Three Cedars Silkies]

Not mine....and I haven't lost a bird since hanging them.

 

[jmc]

Quote:
i was wondering about that.

glad to hear three cedars input

thanks for further replies....!

 

[Three Cedars Silkies]

It's more than them just scaring the hawks away. It has to do with them not being able to lock in their "radar" with the reflections coming off the CD's.

 

[ivan3]

Three Cedars Silkies wrote: It's more than them just scaring the hawks away. It has to do with them not being able to lock in their "radar" with the reflections coming off the CD's.

Like looking down into an array of jittering flashbulbs (have stood on our roof and checked out the effect).

The one's in this thread can also be mounted on poles (short sections of wire/whacker thread/ballpoint pen springs over nails/etc.): https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=44145​