Something got into my covered run and coop

[McChooky]

I'm sorry it took a long time to reply. We did catch what it was. We had cameras in the coop but those cameras don't save recordings, which I'm fixing that. Anyways, I so happened to be awake when it came back (the night after it took the rest) and saw it. Bobcat. Took the entire flock before we figured it out. We did fix, or so we thought, the spot it got in from. Until I woke up to no chickens. We're building a solid roof on the run and will check every inch, and letting my dogs hang out near the empty coop/run, to see if they can get in, before our new girls go out.

Sorry for your loss!

 

[AZcluckers]

Sorry for your loss!

Thank you.

 

[AGeese]

I'd still like to know how small this hole was for a Bobcat to enter.

 

[McChooky]

I'd still like to know how small this hole was for a Bobcat to enter.

Some are as small as a domestic cat and can squeeze thru 3" mesh .

 

[McChooky]

They're in and out and gone in seconds.

 

[BlueBaby]

Sorry that you lost your flock to that bobcat @Azcluckers .

 

[AGeese]

Some are as small as a domestic cat and can squeeze thru 3" mesh .

I would really like to see how they do it. I would think they must dislocate their bones.

 

[Folly's place]

At least house cats do not have a clavicle attached to anything much, so they can manipulate their shoulders in ways most of us can't...
Don't know about bobcats.
Mary

 

[McChooky]

I would really like to see how they do it. I would think they must dislocate their bones.

I've had multiple domestic cats escape from cages covered with 2" x 4" wire mesh fencing. One had to be cut out.

 

[McChooky]

This one escaped within an hour of putting him in this catio.