Do cats eat adult bantams?

[my gang eats grass]

So, I know that cats don't eat adult standard sized chickens, (we have had cats and chickens at the same time pretty much the whole time we have been raising chickens). But I was wondering, will a cat eat a full grown bantam?

 

[FuzzyOwlFeet]

My barn cats have attacked full grown bantams before, I wouldn't risk it.

 

[my gang eats grass]

have they actually killed them or just chased them around/slightly hurt them?

 

[Folly's place]

Some cats might, although it hasn't happened here. Most cats would take out tiny chicks, if they don't have a vigilant mama hen. Seramas are very small, so maybe more at risk than the larger bantams.
Everyone does love chicken!
If the birds are in a safe coop and run, no problem. If they are free ranging, any predator might get them.
Mary

 

[FuzzyOwlFeet]

have they actually killed them or just chased them around/slightly hurt them?

Pounced and grabbed the neck, breaking skin. Which is how they kill, if I hadnt intervened then it would have killed it.

 

[my gang eats grass]

Pounced and grabbed the neck, breaking skin. Which is how they kill, if I hadnt intervened then it would have killed it.

oh ok, Thank you. Do you have just average bantams or particularly small ones?

 

[my gang eats grass]

Some cats might, although it hasn't happened here. Most cats would take out tiny chicks, if they don't have a vigilant mama hen. Seramas are very small, so maybe more at risk than the larger bantams.
Everyone does love chicken!
If the birds are in a safe coop and run, no problem. If they are free ranging, any predator might get them.
Mary

Our chickens are free range, but there is a fence that goes around the perimeter of our property. (And yes we've had lots of predators.) Our cats will eat chicks no matter how protective the mamma, so we always keep chicks penned up, but once they are about a month and a half the cats don't bother them at all.

 

[FuzzyOwlFeet]

oh ok, Thank you. Do you have just average bantams or particularly small ones?

Average bantam, the chicken that was attacked was a Cochin.

 

[my gang eats grass]

Average bantam, the chicken that was attacked was a Cochin

oh ok.

 

[my gang eats grass]

Thank you all for your help.