bobcat

Hello all, my lovely hen recently got attacked by a bobcat but was saved thankfully but this morning she’s not doing too good, she’s sitting with her head down and eyes closed and it seems like she’s doing everything to just every breath, she has a couple big spots where her feathers were...

I feel like the Rodney Dangerfield of wannabe homesteaders. I get no respect from the wildlife. Predators do not fear me. I generally keep 50-80 chickens. I started off practical with dual purposed breeds, added breeds in to be able to have a rainbow of egg colors, then added rare breeds for...

Greetings all from Cave Creek, AZ. Joining to seek advice for deterring a bobcat from preying on our flock (or what's now left of it). We have lost all our mature hens in the past 3 months (the remaining two in as many days). I watched this bobcat walk along the top of adjoining block walls...

Long story short a bobcat attacked one of my hens. He grabbed onto her neck but my dad jumped out of the window and was able to get the bobcat to drop her and run off. There are no bad wounds, just some missing feathers and a little bit of blood but that is the extent of it. She is not acting...

First time chicken owner here. I just released my 4-week old pullets into their coop and now am paranoid that a predictor will take them. I live in Southern California and we have a problem with coyotes and an occasional bobcat. Any thoughts on this?

Hi there, brand new to chickens! Happy to be a part of this forum. I have been thinking about raising chickens for years, and finally feel we're in the place to start this project this year. I have been in research mode for weeks. This site is a goldmine for information, experiences and answers...

Hi all! We have 4ft. tall electric poultry netting and it’s worked great for 1.5y until a bobcat jumped into the run a few days ago and got at least 2 chickens. One was just dead without injury- maybe a heart attack from seeing the bobcat? 😞 I tested the fence voltage, it works fine! I think we...

Today I confirmed that a Bobcat is trying to get my chickens. In broad daylight (10am), it's coming at the chickens in the chicken run. It's been scoping out the coop for 2-3 days and today was the day it actively tried to attack. I only caught a glimpse of it yesterday, barely. But today it...

I live in southwest Louisiana, in the country with forest around us. This is my first time raising chickens. They were 2 yrs old. Something just started killing them a few months ago. I started out with 7 now I only have 4 left. This predator only kills one at a time. We only see feathers, no...

Hi everyone! So as some background, I've had the same set up for my flock of ten hens for three years now: an above ground coop with about 30'x20' of pen room. The ground in the pen is very hard and has lots of pebbles on top, so I like to let them out into my backyard at least once a week to...

Hi, I have been hearing a bobcat around our house at night different times. Does anyone know how I can bobcat proof my duck house and pen? Thank you

Our orpington Brown chick was attacked by a bobcat last night. Its miraculous that she lived- I don’t think I’ve ever prayed for a chicken but I did last night! Her breathing was so labored I thought her lungs were filling with blood- but this morning- aside from seeming pretty traumatized-she...

[WARNING: PICTURE SHOWING BLOOD AND FEATHERS] A bobcat (we're pretty sure) killed 8 of our 12 chickens through a chain-link fence two days ago. (Never had any problems in 3 1/2 years of keeping chickens, but now we've learned the hard way why people use hardware cloth on the run.) It actually...

found one of my bourbon reds this morning partially buried. We know for a fact bobcats, foxes, and coyotes are in the area. Last week a turkey was killed in broad daylight. He was still when we found him. Now we found a Jenny partially buried. I'm almost certain it's a bobcat. I just want to...

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Hello All- A few weeks ago my Barred Rock hen was attacked by a Bobcat. She had no puncture wounds but we could tell something was wrong with her wing. There was no sign of a break anywhere, but she was pretty sick for a while. We "nursed" her back to health with antibiotics and a lot of TLC &...

Long story.. but I was away on vacation for 3 weeks and had someone chicken-sit for me. One of the doors in the rear of the coop was some how opened by the chickens (probably one of the chickens fell off a perch and in trying to hang on put pressure on the door and popped the latch and opened...

We had a bobcat trying to get into the chicken run this morning, the guineas went ballistic so I ran outside with my rifle and there it was, trying to get in, it already killed a bunch of our birds few days ago when we were away celebrating a birthday only to come back to see our favorite buff...