- May 10, 2010
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Well we have lost 4 chickens in the last to days. It is happening in the morning about 4, there are a pile of feathers, but we have found all but 1 of the bodies! The chickens are very torn up. Each morning our dog has gone out to the windows and started barking. This morning I heard him push open the door and thought I heard a cat in heat. Not like a cougar, maybe smaller? I ran out to the deck and saw one of the chickens laying in the yard and heard something run off into the woods. We had shut the coop door last night and it was open, and another hen was in the corner all torn up. It seems to get 2 a night, I know it will be back tonight too
Do you think we have a Bob Cat? We are in Middle NC and surrounded by woods. We have had the birds for 2 years without incident till now. These girls are standard cochins so they are big girls! I could see where it had gotten in the run next to the coop and dug down a little to get to the hen I had brooding on eggs, she was the one in the yard and the eggs were scattered and some eaten. We will be up wit the shot gun tomorrow morning, but I wanted to ask for any suggestions anyone may have. I would really like to know what I am dealing with and if we would be better off to try and trap it. I'll get rid of my chickens before I let them all be slaughtered.
Dori Ann
Dori Ann