!BOBCAT ATTACK!

[cgmccary]

You might want to read post #25

Oh so very sorry for OP. I had this happen to a great hen years ago. I rushed to vet. Shock will kill them fast. My hen wasn’t conscious. They put her in an oxygen tent immediately. I was sent home with Baytril. She lived. Her wounds were horrendous. They healed and I had her for some years. I had a opossum that had a hen by the head on the roost one time and I shot him dead. I got Baytril. I thought her eyes were gone but turns out, they were just swollen shut a few days. She was two years old then but went on to live to be 9 years old. Shock and infection are the thing that kills them. They can recover from the wounds.

 

[Folly's place]

I'm so sorry for your loss; your hen had a great life until this one terrible event.
Mary

 

[Fluffbutts84]

Oh so very sorry for OP. I had this happen to a great hen years ago. I rushed to vet. Shock will kill them fast. My hen wasn’t conscious. They put her in an oxygen tent immediately. I was sent home with Baytril. She lived. Her wounds were horrendous. They healed and I had her for some years. I had a opossum that had a hen by the head on the roost one time and I shot him dead. I got Baytril. I thought her eyes were gone but turns out, they were just swollen shut a few days. She was two years old then but went on to live to be 9 years old. Shock and infection are the thing that kills them. They can recover from the wounds.

I will definitely be getting some baytril. Wish I had more knowledge at the time of this happening. I probably could have saved her. Still learning.

 

[cmom]

I had a bobcat dig under the fence to one of my pens and killed several (14) of my birds. It came back and I trapped it. I'm sure yours will be back. Do you have any game cameras.

 

[Fluffbutts84]

I had a bobcat dig under the fence to one of my pens and killed several (14) of my birds. It came back and I trapped it. I'm sure yours will be back. Do you have any game cameras.
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I set up a game cam at one point because we had an attack and wasn't sure what did it...sure it was a cat the way it tried to drag our hen through the fence. How did you trap the bobcat?