Texas

[ChicKat]

ChicKat, I think she used pool noodles.

Oh thanks TexasLisa --
this time of year they will be on sale too wont they.....

 

[TexasLisa]

Oh thanks TexasLisa --
this time of year they will be on sale too wont they.....

Along with the summer clothes! Summer is over and winter is here! Crazy people!

 

[MandyJ]

Kitty, your babies are adorable!! And you have turkeys! We raised 5 BBW a couple of years ago. Ken and I really enjoyed raising them. (The eating wasn't bad either.

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So, do you rescue a lot of chickens?

ChicKat, you and I think alike. When I first saw that picture, I thought 'Cougar' too. But there wasn't a long tail that is associated with the cougar. Still it isn't something I want to meet up with!

Me either!
Mandy

 

[MandyJ]

It does look so big for a bob cat and has the body type that is more cougar-like. --- Had a thought that maybe it watches your actions - hence knows that you and the dogs have done the routine and the coast is clear, --- especially think that predators are sly and observant. It also seems that the bob cat would be more nocturnal. Sometimes the predators can wipe out other pests (rodents) -- but the fowl look like easy pickin's.

Seems sometimes like everything from microbes to heat stroke to other animals are after our chickens. :O(

We wondered as well, but after looking at all the camera shots it is a bobcat, a large one at that. We haven't seen it on the camera again, day or night. So maybe it will leave us alone! I put the ducks up at 3 pm to keep them safe, so they aren't available to it, whatever "it" is!

I agree, it is frustrating what all wants to eat the ducks! I feel for them.

 

[Baymule]

Thanks I'll check it out, did u order online or your local feed store? I have 3 Rhode Island Red that are 17 weeks

I bought it at a local feed store.

 

[Ren2014]

For those of you who have Chickens and Dogs living peacefully together, what breed of dog do you have?

We have Great Pyrenees, Akbash and French Bulldogs. No matter what breed of dog you get, even an LGD they have to be trained to respect the flock.

9 foot KING COBRA snake caught on the loose in Needville, TX.

A snake seller's snake got out.
He owns more than 20 deathly dangerous snakes.
YUK

Glad they caught it!

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@ TexasLisa:

I have a wild mix, most of my girls are rescues. I help out with our local county animal control so I don't have a group or special breed. But I have some Rhode Island Reds, Gold Lace Wyandottes, Appenzellers, Buff Orpingtons, Leghorns, Brahmas, Bantams... you name it, I got it lol! I also have some awesome turkeys, Red Bourbons & Bronze, and have 2 of the cutest babies on the planet!

They are beautiful!

Along with the summer clothes! Summer is over and winter is here! Crazy people!

Winter here? Where? Send some my way please

We wondered as well, but after looking at all the camera shots it is a bobcat, a large one at that. We haven't seen it on the camera again, day or night. So maybe it will leave us alone! I put the ducks up at 3 pm to keep them safe, so they aren't available to it, whatever "it" is!

I agree, it is frustrating what all wants to eat the ducks! I feel for them.

Be careful, a cat that big probably wouldn't have second thoughts about jumping on you.

 

[ChicKat]

We wondered as well, but after looking at all the camera shots it is a bobcat, a large one at that. We haven't seen it on the camera again, day or night. So maybe it will leave us alone! I put the ducks up at 3 pm to keep them safe, so they aren't available to it, whatever "it" is!

I agree, it is frustrating what all wants to eat the ducks! I feel for them.

Hopefully it is roaming far from your place.

When I first moved here I saw a print in the snow that I thought was cougar track - kind of freaked me out -- and then saw one again in the sand in the driveway when it was wet. Cougars have territory from 50 to 150 sq miles....- and it wasn't too long after that that someone on the other side of town supposedly killed a cougar.

Just looked up bob cat and their territory is 25 to 30 square miles for males (but another source said 8 sq mi) and 5 sq mi for females. -- So hopefully the critter is heading 5-miles away from you. Since it didn't get those easy meals after all...

Mostbob cats I've seen are not much bigger than a big tom cat -- but much more ferocious. To me they are so rare that I think I just saw one disappearing into the brush one time way out in far west TX. They seem pretty elusive -- I haven't heard of a bob cat attacking a human. (they probably are really scared of people.)

FAST FACTS
Height: 17-23 inches.
Length: 25-41 inches.
Weight: 16-28 lbs (males); 10-18 lbs (females). Lifespan: 12-13 years.
The ones I've seen taxidermied and the live one -- were on the small end. Your game cam shot looks like one of the larger ones...

It would still freak me out to have one on the game cam....I think that they would be formidable predators to have around. Still of all the predators to me, raccoons are the very worst - and I have lost the most chickens to them.

 

[MandyJ]

Hopefully it is roaming far from your place.

When I first moved here I saw a print in the snow that I thought was cougar track - kind of freaked me out -- and then saw one again in the sand in the driveway when it was wet. Cougars have territory from 50 to 150 sq miles....- and it wasn't too long after that that someone on the other side of town supposedly killed a cougar.

Just looked up bob cat and their territory is 25 to 30 square miles for males (but another source said 8 sq mi) and 5 sq mi for females. -- So hopefully the critter is heading 5-miles away from you. Since it didn't get those easy meals after all...

Mostbob cats I've seen are not much bigger than a big tom cat -- but much more ferocious. To me they are so rare that I think I just saw one disappearing into the brush one time way out in far west TX. They seem pretty elusive -- I haven't heard of a bob cat attacking a human. (they probably are really scared of people.)

FAST FACTS
Height: 17-23 inches.
Length: 25-41 inches.
Weight: 16-28 lbs (males); 10-18 lbs (females). Lifespan: 12-13 years.

The ones I've seen taxidermied and the live one -- were on the small end. Your game cam shot looks like one of the larger ones...

It would still freak me out to have one on the game cam....I think that they would be formidable predators to have around. Still of all the predators to me, raccoons are the very worst - and I have lost the most chickens to them.


We have since gotten pictures on the game camera. He's/she's here all right! Seems to be coming around 7:45 and 11 pm each night. I guess he is checking. We'll have to kill him, I hate to, but it's getting too close for us, dogs and ducks!

 

[kajira]

We have Great Pyrenees, Akbash and French Bulldogs. No matter what breed of dog you get, even an LGD they have to be trained to respect the flock.

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They are beautiful!

Winter here? Where? Send some my way please

Be careful, a cat that big probably wouldn't have second thoughts about jumping on you.

Every great pyr I've met, has been a good dog. (So far anyways, however my husband has met a couple that were show dogs, that were monsters though. LOL)

 

[jtn42248]

We have since gotten pictures on the game camera. He's/she's here all right! Seems to be coming around 7:45 and 11 pm each night. I guess he is checking. We'll have to kill him, I hate to, but it's getting too close for us, dogs and ducks!

Our bird pens/coops are metal on concrete. The only Bobcat I have seen was about sunset a year or so ago. It jumped from a tree onto the roof of the duck coop and was trying to pry up the metal roof. I shot at it and either missed or wounded it and it took off and has not been back. I have read that they will stake out a food source for days "logging" all the behavior until it learns the "safe" time to make its attack. So, it knew that our dogs never go out to the bird pens. What it did not know is that I keep a shotgun right inside the back door and the pens are only about 50 feet from the house.