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If it's a bobcat, it will be hard to live trap and may have to be a different design. I have a dedicated trap for a bobcat. It's abnormally tall for a live trap. You'll only get one shot. If something doesn't go right, it won't enter it again.

Some 2 cents that I’ll offer is that I’m a few years into a large gamefowl project and I’ve found that crossing breeds of highly inbred bloodlines lends itself towards erasing abnormally large size. Gigantism of the sort we see in some chicken breeds may sometimes be a trait that was created...

Tonight I counted the combined group of 15 and all are there. The mother of the 10 (of the combined 15) is setting again on a clutch of about a dozen eggs give or take. Seems like there was 12 or so there a couple of nights ago. There may be 13 or 14 now. #8 (or #9 if another missing hen or...

I’m not against snaring per se. But I have done it and seen some animals die pretty bad deaths. In the infancy of video-capable trail cameras, I set some video units up on a snare line and saw some pretty slow, terrible, scenes. Foot-holds, on the other hand, can be an amazingly humane way to...

Florida only allows foot traps with a permit. Yet we can use killing snares without a permit. Go figure.

The other candidate would be fox. But I’d bet on the bobcat first. They’re great turkey predators and are a lot more elusive than a fox. Not that foxes aren’t slick. But you’d know if you had a resident fox at some point. The bobcat, on the other hand, could slink all around and never be seen...

Even a big bobcat has to drag an adult-sized turkey. They can pick it up, its just that the turkey is too long not to drag. A coyote does not have to drag one. They can pick up a grown turkey and walk right off with the entire carcass. But I would presume and agree that a bobcat wouldn’t have...

Any bobcat sign around? (Sounds like one).

I value roosterhavoc’s input and experience. I would point out that many well-bred gamefowl cocks of high game drive will still run from a hawk, and some non-game roosters will beat a hawk down with everything they have. A hawk is not a rival rooster and the instinctual response is not...

I used to get depredation permits for my blueberries that let me deer hunt 24/7 year-round. But I found that beyond letting me use an air rifle in bow season, it offered me little advantage. The terms of the permit forbid baiting, and baiting makes all the difference once the season starts and...

Well, that is natural selection in action.

What did she do to off herself?

I didn't count the 15 this evening, but as of last night they haven't had any losses. Some of the black cockerels in the group are starting to get some red on them.

The dogs found a chick thief. I think it got a few the last couple of nights from #6 and #7. They found it behind a cinder block near their roosting spot.

Free-range mammas #1&#2 (the two that raised the 15 to 4-5 weeks and quit). Momma #3. Mamma #4 Mamma #5. I thought this one was kaput some time ago. She's 1/4 aseel, 1/4 Liege, 1/2 Australorp. Mammas #6 & #7. I know where #8 is, and I suspect #9 will appear any day now (which I...

Stag 1 Stag 1 Stag 2 Random pullet. Stag 2. Stag 3. Pullet.

In total, there's about 35 terrorfowl on free-range, with another 10 or so almost ready to join them. I've got a good variety of colors among them, which I ascribe to Sherman. No sign of Marek's. No losses so far.

I’ve done it for family and friends. There’s nothing different about it than incubating for myself. When the chicks hatch they either pick them up from me or I deliver them.

I’ve started documenting the Liege x aseel x Crackers in this composite thread by several forum members detailing their landrace projects: https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/landrace-adaptive-breeding-discussion.1624350/page-24