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Wyvern
at Wed Mar 25 19:33:32 2009 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Wyvern ]
>>Way cool, looks ready to rip a chunk out of you if you were to drop your guard for even a second!!
>>My sincere thanks for stepping in and taking care of our wild friends when / as needed!!!
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>>What;s the back story on "failed chicken hawk"? Get caught in a chicken coop by a farmer?
Small commercial chicken farmer down the road found him tangled up in one of his movable pens (the kind that can be moved indoors and brought out in good weather). His are built to be lightweight to roll around and don't have tops on them, just a net covering. I'm guessing the farmer is gonna need to find a better quality of "roofing material" LOL. He cut the bird free of the pen and dumped him in a box and brought him to us. Took me about 20 minutes to cut the full tangled mess off from around the hawk's foot.
In the pictures he was just showing off. If he really wanted to take a chunk out of someone he would have attacked the camera that was in his face instead of posing for it LOL. He didn't even try to bait or get away while I was holding him. That first photo the camera was about 10 inches from his face - definitely in easy strike range.
Overall, I think the hawk would have been a good candidate for a hunting bird - he really was that well behaved. Most wild birds have difficulty with sitting a glove that easy right away, being leashed, being messed with generally speaking, etc. - he took it all in stride without a fuss.
With a wild untrained hawk like this one it should have taken two people to get the almeryis and jesses on, but he was such a good boy I could do it one handed while restraining him with the other hand. Not once did he try to attack my bare hand during that process and he could have quite easily. With leash on, he took to the glove like a trained pro.
Early on the hawk's good behavior could be attributed to the exhaustion and such but even after that was essentially taken care of he still was a well behaved bird (or he was just sucking up to keep getting his free chickens for lunch since chickens is what got him in trouble in the first place).
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RE: Oh and..... - Wyvern, Wed Mar 25 19:33:32 2009