Help! Mystery animal attacking!

[ChookyChooks&Turklets2]

If they’re for sure cat feet, bobcat would make sense for your area. Felines are always a pain, they lack collarbones so they can fit through anywhere their head fits, and they’re smart. There were no bodies or feathers, nothing left?

What does your set up look like? And photos of the prints with a size reference would help confirm, if you can get them.

 

[Eggcessive]

I lost 3 hens a few years ago to a bobcat in mid afternoon. She came back for each body shortly afterward, or we would ‘t have known what predator. Here is a link with bobcat tracks:
https://www.bear-tracker.com/bobcattrackphotos.html

 

[BDutch]

Well it's like a cat but bigger then house cat

Wild cat.

 

[D1N0]

If they’re for sure cat feet, bobcat would make sense for your area. Felines are always a pain, they lack collarbones so they can fit through anywhere their head fits, and they’re smart. There were no bodies or feathers, nothing left?

What does your set up look like? And photos of the prints with a size reference would help confirm, if you can get them.

So the run (chicken 1) got dive bombed and the body was left, chicks one body dragged away the other the dog got so not sure but it got some of it. I will get photos when I get the time to get some good ones but I'm pretty sure it's a Bobcat or a neighbor cat (they have around 5+).

 

[D1N0]

I lost 3 hens a few years ago to a bobcat in mid afternoon. She came back for each body shortly afterward, or we would ‘t have known what predator. Here is a link with bobcat tracks:
https://www.bear-tracker.com/bobcattrackphotos.html

Thank you I'm pretty sure it's a young bobcat because the prints are not large there around a house cat and something has been dig at our burn barrel not to far from the coop. It get pics of it to


P.S. it was digging for pig/rabbit bones

 

[D1N0]

Is there a smell they don't like but won't bug house cats? Or something like that?

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Is there a smell they don't like but won't bug house cats? Or something like that?

A smell that who don't like?

 

[D1N0]

Also what is the best why to keep the chick company? It's on grower and it's a rooster, almost on layer i think (hatched around June I think)

 

[D1N0]

A smell that who don't like?

Bobcat

 

[D1N0]

My only other chicks are broilers