[Ag-eq] Chicken Killer

[James K]

Does your husband have a shotgun? If not, he should get one and be done with this cat once and for all.
A .22 also works well. The shells are also cheaper.

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On Oct 15, 2013, at 5:22 PM, "Jewel" <jewelblanch at kinect.co.nz> wrote:

> Susan!  can you get hold of a trap cage from your local game and fishery department and bait it and, 
> hopefully, the feral cat will walk in, and then you can have him shot or destroyed by a  vet but why 
> spend more money on the gbastard?  he has cost you enough already!.
> The bleeding heart brigade would throw their hands up in violent protest about killing the darling 
> creature, but they would take quite a different view if it was their animals that it was tearing to 
> pieces!
> I have every sympathy for the feral as it is only doing what a wild animal has to do:  that is: 
> hunting for its food, and in your captive chooks, he has found a source of easy victims, but those 
> captive chooks are in your care so they must be protected as they cannot fly out of harm's way; 
> therefore,  either the prey goes, or the predator, and if you don't take vigorous action soon, it is 
> going to be the former.
> 
>        Jewel
> 
> 
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Susan Roe" <dogwoodfarm at verizon.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2013 8:16 AM
> To: "Agricultural and Equestrean Division List" <ag-eq at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: [Ag-eq] Chicken Killer
> 
> Well, we definitely have uncovered our chicken killer.  Not a fox, but a large farel yellow tom that 
> comes around from spring to fall, spreading his seed and then leaves.  He does not get fed with our 
> cats along with a few other roaming toms, so he has just decided to start helping himself.  In the 
> past month, he has killed 7 hens and my last rooster.  Him killing the rooster is what gave him 
> away.  That night, he got into coop 3 and tore a hen to pieces.  The rooster didn't go so quietly, 
> he died fighting and it was the marks he left on the cat that gave him away.  The last hen that was 
> taken was on Friday morning about 5:30 a.m. and I heard it when it happened.  When my sister went to 
> check a bit later, he had for the first time actually gotten the hen out of the coop, through the 
> hen yard and outside their enclosure.  When my sister turned the corner behind coops 2 and 3, he was 
> pulling feathers out so he could feed.  He didn't run away from her when she approached, just
> stood up and slowly walked away like he was telling you he'd be back for more later when he got 
> hungry again.
> 
> I am now down to only 4 hens, 2 buffs, 1 bard and my one loan black hen who is my oldest.  We've 
> even had to stop selling eggs.  My husband is coming home from Seattle tonight and we are going to 
> put the 4 hens in coop 1 where nothing has been able to get in and we will continue to shut up the 
> coop at night.  Coop 2 and 3 will now have to go through a total strip down to make it cat proof and 
> figure out a way so nothing can dig down under the coops to get to the main yards.  All hens will 
> now have to be put up at night for added security.
> 
> I will really have to get the two flocks of hens next year, 25 hens each and a rooster for each 
> coop.  I think Rhode Island Reds are going to be my choices, large brown egg laying hens and the 
> roosters are extremely protective.  I know without a shadow of a doubt, that if I still had Big Red, 
> a Rhode Island Red rooster, the cat may have come in, but he wouldn't be leaving alive.
> 
> Susan
> dogwoodfarm at verizon.net
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