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Hi ok anyone want to venture a guess whether this 2 month old is a pullet or a cockerel?
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The one on the left with a tail.
 
Anyone interested in a flock of buff/gold laced brahmas? PM me I have them on Craigslist too. Wish I could keep them but I really want some CCLs! Hopefully Jeff at papas poultry has some around point of lay or close to it :) I need more land!!!
 
lawatt said:
oh no -- mystery solved, it is the bobcat -- he just got Daisy, my beautiful black australorp and best layer. i'm just heartbroken.
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chicksnthestiks said:
Quote: So sorry you've lost more girls, Laura, and your favorite too. Daisy was one of your original flock, wasn't she? The cats are in danger too. We lost our wonderful kitty to a bobcat last year.

I was also going to suggest that you borrow a noisy dog to perhaps change the bobcat's routine. It is far too comfortable patrolling your place, and a dog might convince it to exclude you from its territory. I think it is dangerous when large predators become habituated to people, both for the people and especially for the animals. A big cat like that, unafraid of people, is much more likely to get shot.
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Wishing4Wings said:
So sorry you've lost more girls, Laura, and your favorite too. Daisy was one of your original flock, wasn't she? The cats are in danger too. We lost our wonderful kitty to a bobcat last year.

I was also going to suggest that you borrow a noisy dog to perhaps change the bobcat's routine. It is far too comfortable patrolling your place, and a dog might convince it to exclude you from its territory. I think it is dangerous when large predators become habituated to people, both for the people and especially for the animals. A big cat like that, unafraid of people, is much more likely to get shot.
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thanks for the sympathies, all -- and yes, i suspect the bobcat paw is how my cat sophie got her bad neck wound earlier this year. my three cats were all formerly feral, and would be utterly miserable indoors, so they are allowed out by day but come in at night.

and yes, got the chickens easily back into their pens after the scares this morning.

but no dogs for me -- I'm not a dog person, my property has no fences, and it's a long narrow piece, so any dog would be running onto my neighbors' property as well as mine -- NONE of us have dogs up here (top end of a dead-end road), and i think we like it that way.

no, i just need to be less casual and more careful about letting the chickens out. during the school year, they're mostly only out in the late afternoons after i get back from campus -- but over summer i've been working on a book project at home, and so have been letting them out far more -- they're always more or less within eyesight (my place is 1.6 acres, so not huge, and like i said, long and narrow, with the house kind of at one end), but i'm not always outdoors with them.

i'm sure the bobcat's routine will change once there are no longer tasty snacks strewn in its path -- i don't blame the cat. I just need to adjust my chicken management to reflect the reality that he's not just an early-morning hours visitor.

and school starts next week, so i won't be home as much, anyway.
 

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