I figure, i'm the one who moved into the bobcat's home range, rather than the other way around -- so i can spare a chicken now and then, if i'm too careless to keep my eyes on everyone. keeps me on my toes. and it's handy to have scavengers around for when a chicken passes away from other...
thanks -- the bobcat is just part of life here (plenty of other predators around, too) -- thankfully is a beautiful thing to have come visit occasionally (this picture was taken out my bedroom door, a year ago):
and confirmed that it can NOT get into the chickens' pens -- i've literally seen...
nothing super-recent -- there's a resident bobcat near my home, & none of the chickens have been out of their pens for over a month -- but getting the tall grass near their pens cut today, so fewer hiding places for the feline!
and here's one from over winter:
i actually have four SB...