[Ag-eq] Chicken Killer

[Susan Roe]

Yes, both and a hunting bow.  Unfortunately, the cat and gun are never close 
to each other at the right time.  While my husband was in Seattle, I almost 
called a friend to come over and shoot it if my sister could point it out to 
him.  I'm tempted to set up a trap in the chicken yard while the hens are 
secured in coop 3 and see what transpires.

Susan
dogwoodfarm at verizon.net
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James K" <jakon22 at gmail.com>
To: "Jewel" <jewelblanch at kinect.co.nz>; "Agricultural and Equestrean 
Division List" <ag-eq at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2013 7:40 PM
Subject: Re: [Ag-eq] Chicken Killer


> 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.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> 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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