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The last couple of years I have had numerous attacks on my chickens. It actually caused me to stop raising them for year because spending money on birds just to feed this predator that I never saw seemed ridiculous. I ended up building a coop out of a dog run that was completely enclosed. For a few months nothing came around it or so I thought, but I still locked them up at night. One morning I had to let the birds out early, keep in mind this is the only time I had done this. When I returned late that afternoon my show quality Lavender Orpingtons had been massacred. The predator had killed half the flock and only ate the breast meat out of birds. My favorite rooster that I had imported the UK lay dead at the coop. That was the final straw. That night I left all the half eaten carcasses out and sat in our hay close by. At 2:00 a.m. In the morning I saw the silhouette come crawling down the tree and slowly started stalking the birds in the cage that had survived. The bobcat was the size of a medium sized dog and inspected every inch of the cage to make sure there wasn't a way in. This animal probably had been doing this every morning and evening for the past couple months waiting for me to slip up. They truly are brilliant animals. (Anyone who loves bobcats I'm sorry for this next part) I raised my shotgun up to my shoulder and waited until I had a clear shot away from any houses or other animals and "boom" the bobcat went flying. That was the quickest animals I had ever seen. It ran about 300 yards and dropped.
Tips to tell of a bobcat attack Verses Other Animals:
1. Similar Kill tactics and eating habits on all birds.
2. Happens at late hours.
3. little to no tracks, your lucky to find any
4. Quite death on birds when they attack
I Hope these tips help you find your own murder mystery.
Tips to tell of a bobcat attack Verses Other Animals:
1. Similar Kill tactics and eating habits on all birds.
2. Happens at late hours.
3. little to no tracks, your lucky to find any
4. Quite death on birds when they attack
I Hope these tips help you find your own murder mystery.