We have about 30 chickens usually free-ranging in a rural yard, and we were losing about 1 chicken every other day to eagles, hawks, foxes, raccoons, etc. I was hoping to think of a way that a scarecrow could move in order to keep the predators guessing… and then the internet showed me this. “Socky” Is the name of our red moving scarecrow. We move him every day in the yard, and we have not lost a single chicken in the 6 weeks or so we’ve had him. It’s late fall here, and without the protection of foliage on the trees, our girls can hang out under Socky’s unpredictably flailing appendages. It took them a couple days to get accustomed to his wild gesticulations, but we threw a few treats around the base, and he is their new best friend. We’ve found he is holding up beautifully, wind, rain, shine. Color is still vibrant, minimal blower noise is quite tolerable (we can’t even hear him in the house). Take a bow, Socky!
JohnnyBGoode 
