Bobcat killed our rooster on our porch!

[chicksurreal]

I bet bobcat simply made grab and run after making calculation dog was not a real obstacle. No need for desperation. The Great Pyrenees was bred to guard herding animals that actually help with their defense by staying together and to tackle predators that do not normally have the grab and run option like a employed by bobcat getting chicken. Great Pyrenees had to deal with predators that would have to stay with a prey item since they cannot outrun dog while carrying it. Then dog(s) forced predator to give up catch. If bobcats a consistent problem then consider making so you have perimeter of short vegetation dogs can see bobcat approaching through and also serve as sort of a barrier chickens want to stay out of. I have so birds have cover patches birds concentrate their activities around and dogs can see bad guys approach.

Also possibility some dogs are dead-heads with respect to bobcats and are not motivated to chase them off.


You could also shoot bobcat.

Thanks very much for the information, I appreciate it.

We will do whatever we can to protect them. We're looking into getting dogs that are bred more for the purpose that we need. Our two dogs are a blue heeler and a pit bull mix, they will chase anything out of the yard if they see it, but we have had them for many years and want to get pups that we can train for this purpose.

 

[Mahlzeit]

Sorry to hear about your rooster

 

[chicksurreal]

Sorry to hear about your rooster

Thanks very much.

It's a hard lesson to learn at the expense of an animal that I'm responsible for and cared very much about.

 

[chickengeorgeto]

A friend of mine had bobcat troubles. He determined that the bobcat was holed up in about 6 square miles of paper company land an impossible place to weed out one specific bobcat. But he did discover that the cat was using a sage grass field to hide his approach to my friend's chickens.. The bobcat waited motionless in the edge of a 20 acre sage grass field that matched his coat perfectly. It was then a simple task for the bobcat to let dinner come to him. When a chicken got to within say 10 feet or so of the sage grass field, the waiting bobcat pounced and was gone in the blink of an eye, running back into the sage grass with a hen in his mouth.

Making your dogs live outside is a good start to solving your bobcat problems. Next is a good walk around. Try to think like the cat and see were you would spring an ambush from if you wanted a sushi chicken dinner. Next eliminate (as much as possible) any cover that the bobcat can use to approach your property. It worked for my friend, he burned off the sage grass field.

 

[nab58]

I'm a new chicken owner and am so surprised at how many animals want to eat chickens!

I was outside standing among my six hens while they were pecking around and a hawk dropped straight down from a branch above my head onto the back of a chicken that was no more than five feet from me. I screamed and it flew off. The chicken was unhurt but would certainly have been killed if I wasn't right there. I just couldn't believe the hawk was over my head and I didn't know it was there.

 

[sandovaljose214]

If you get a guinea fowl and If a bobcat comes It will be super loud and you might hear It and go outside and scare the bob cat away .