Chicken Killing cat.....Need advice. (WARNING GRAPHIC PICS)

[Teresaann24]

So I started losing chickens to something I had no clue what. Recently after I lost 3 chickens in one night it was a CAT!

He has either been dumped here or abandoned not sure which he seems Feral he has been tearing up our trash and has killed 6 of my chickens. In winter I keep my chickens in a coop/run and in summer they free range through the day and at night get locked back up. 4 of those chickens he killed some how got out after i put them up and was killed and 2 were killed inside a temp cage for new chickens I had gotten and he got through the top.


Now my local animal shelter will not help I contacted them and they said (They are not accepting cats that the cat seemed hungry for me to feed him)

I have always been told ONCE A CHICKEN KILLER ALWAYS A CHICKEN KILLER. So what do I do? He is un-catchable....I thought of sitting a live trap and finding him a home with someone who will tame him.

I need advice what should i do? yelling at him and chasing him away does not work...Scaring him does not work he always comes back.

PLEASE HELP I would love to be able to free range my chickens this spring/summer without having to watch them like a hawk (No pun intended)

 

[elizabethbinary]

You're not going to like the answer...

 

[jgravilusmc]

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i agree

 

[Tala]

I lost 3 chicks from a chicken tractor once. I THINK a human stole them. BUT I set the trap and caught a stray black cat. Hardest shot I've ever made. Still not sure who done it, but haven't lost a chick since

 

[Teresaann24]

I can take it I am a big girl...So what do I need to do?

 

[Desert Rooster]

you can trap it and have animal contrl take care of it or SSS

 

[bobbi-j]

Sss...

 

[mulewagon]

You might be able to find a home for it, but there are a whole bunch of stray cats, and not many people would want a feral one that likely also carries disease.

Sorry, but to protect your chickens you might have to trap and shoot it, or pay a vet to put it down.

 

[elizabethbinary]

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Well, I'd probably shoot a feral cat if it killed my birds and I couldn't get anybody else to get it off my property, honestly.

 

[redhen]

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Well, I'd probably shoot a feral cat if it killed my birds and I couldn't get anybody else to get it off my property, honestly.

Agree.. you have to do, what you have to do.