Chicken thief - caught

[nakneker]

Good friend of mine has a nice place with some cows, horses, dogs, cats and he loves his chickens. We get free eggs, the good blue and brown ones with the bright orange yolks. So when the egg supply started getting interrupted and said chickens were disappearing he called another friend who came over and executed a plan. Only took one night and the thief was unveiled. Beautiful one too.

 

[Pheasanthunter]

Good friend of mine has a nice place with some cows, horses, dogs, cats and he loves his chickens. We get free eggs, the good blue and brown ones with the bright orange yolks. So when the egg supply started getting interrupted and said chickens were disappearing he called another friend who came over and executed a plan. Only took one night and the thief was unveiled. Beautiful one too.

Nice one guess that wasn’t his lucky horseshoe!!

 

[J_Hensley]

Beautiful cat. It's too bad he couldn't find a different food source.

 

[dgeesaman]

Beautiful cat. It's too bad he couldn't find a different food source.

Or a better built henhouse

 

[jxb]

Even in my... if it moved it was fair game for hunting days I never could bring myself to take a cat. I'd probably enjoyed the pics and fenced it out better. However, if you let your chickens out daytime (like we always did on the farm) that wouldn't help as this one would simply hit them after they were let out and anyone that's grown up around critters knows once they get the taste it never goes away. So I can see taking it, sad as it is to see such a beautiful cat move on.

As for yotes, they rate about the same as rattle snakes... ;-)

 

[DShortt]

No end of potential predators when it comes to chickens. 'Yotes, fox, cats, hawks, loose dogs, even know of one circumstance where a opossum was killing chickens.

 

[Flouncer]

Hen kills Hawk -

 

[jxb]

Now that's something to see! (Hen kills Hawk -)

 

[nakneker]

A little follow up. He was feeding his chickens this morning and a second bobcat was watching the chickens from close range. He went back to his house to get a firearm but it was gone by the time he got back. I don’t doubt it meets it demise in the coming days.

 

[swd]

There’s lots of them around here. We have to keep our chickens in a 12’x12’ cyclone fence dog kennel with a roof and rocks surrounding the bottom. There’s a local pheasant farm where the bobcats lay on their side and wait for a bird to get close enough that they can grab it eat whatever they can pull through the fencing. Lots of pheasants with just their head gone. He hates them..

 

[HighlandLofts]

It's part of owning farm type animals, along comes the predators.

Either kill the problem predators or get rid of what ever you raise.

 

[TrapperBR549]

I have no problem killing bobcats or any other predator if legal but after keeping chickens for many years another one will always take its place. A stronger pen is the only long term solution. Electric fence is very helpful.
On another note a friend of mine has 2 bobcats mounted that look very cool. He has one on the floor with some water habitat and a mole in its mouth while the other one is on a limb above it looking down. It really is outstanding.

 

[NorCalMikie]

Hen kills Hawk -

Use to raise Game Hens (fighting Cocks) and would see that often. You NEVER mess with a hens chicks!!

 

[epc308]

No end of potential predators when it comes to chickens. 'Yotes, fox, cats, hawks, loose dogs, even know of one circumstance where a opossum was killing chickens.

We had an opossum kill *one* chicken. All of them were going insane one warm summer night when they should have been asleep. Caught the critter on his way out, probably got stuck from that belly full of yardbird. It was an easy enough shot to the head, then a trip to the train station.

 

[Treerat-sniper]

A few years back I had a coon get into my coop, he decapitated 5 hens & got himself Glocked at about 2'... After surveying the carnage, a possum was behind the coop growling at me! He got the same treatment.

 

[TrapperBR549]

A few years back I had a coon get into my coop, he decapitated 5 hens & got himself Glocked at about 2'... After surveying the carnage, a possum was behind the coop growling at me! He got the same treatment.

The best use I've ever found for a golf club was to clean up the coop.

 

[epc308]

A few years back I had a coon get into my coop, he decapitated 5 hens & got himself Glocked at about 2'... After surveying the carnage, a possum was behind the coop growling at me! He got the same treatment.

Years back we learned the hard way how much coons just like to kill chickens. I lost count of how many of those murderous bastards I've killed since then. Foxes would at least eat them, but they still went out the same way as the coons.

 

[HighlandLofts]

I do dove releases for weddings, funerals and memorials with pure white racing homer pigeons, I occasionally get opposums in my yard. Anything that preys upon pigeons get the train station ride.

 

[Larry Koch]

Thx PTA.