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[MsPoultry]

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I found a pile of feather down at the bottom of our pasture and a second pile by our back porch (where the cats like to hang out)

Dan I have a list of questions from my chicken predator identification key so here they are:
* how many birds were eaten
*time they were taken
*clues but I already have enough

 

[dan26552]

Your sister must have big cats, I'm used to our little 5 to 10 lb cats.

I don't think they are even five pounds

 

[Buck Oakes]

I found a pile of feather down at the bottom of our pasture and a second pile by our back porch (where the cats like to hang out)

It sounds likes coon , is there cat food outside?,

Or I could have been a fox and jumped repeatedly at them until they flew off the it got them, with the pile of feathers it sounds like a fix, foxes don't leaves anything behind, an a coon would have so it probably wasn't a coon, especially because coons eat the had first then will leave the body and come back later

Cats are open killers, they would save some come back later, they wouldn't go back for another one because a muscovy would last them days even weeks.

 

[mymilliefleur]

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Yea, I agree. besides, I doubt a five lb cat is going to get an 8 to 10 lb duck. that would be unlikely. a fox could have circled the swing set in till the ducks flew down. It could also have been a mother fox and kits, in which case that would have been why so many were killed.

 

[Buck Oakes]

I have no love for foxes, pour gasoline on it and light a match

That was kinda harsh, don't really do that, but like still just get it away

 

[Buck Oakes]

It sounds likes coon , is there cat food outside?,

Or I could have been a fox and jumped repeatedly at them until they flew off the it got them, with the pile of feathers it sounds like a fix, foxes don't leaves anything behind, an a coon would have so it probably wasn't a coon, especially because coons eat the had first then will leave the body and come back later

Cats are open killers, they would save some come back later, they wouldn't go back for another one because a muscovy would last them days even weeks. Plus they would leave the carcass out in the open to come back to.

 

[Buck Oakes]

This post was never here*

 

[MsPoultry]

I think it's a fox,raccoons and cats leave parts behind I had a fox take one of my Roos early this year it left scattered feathers and that was all you could tell he had put up a good fight he had ran all over the yard that or it was a dog but I doubt it because we have a well known fox that lives around us and she's a mom and I saw her not long after he was killed that roo sure was a feisty little stinker and b-e-a-utiful

 

[Buck Oakes]

did you slit the ofxes throat?

( sorry sorry, i have a lot of pint up anger towards foxes

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[dan26552]

did you slit the ofxes throat?

( sorry sorry, i have a lot of pint up anger towards foxes    )

That's ok my dad would take a 22 to a fox (or coon or well you get the point) but only if it killed his animals