[Ag-eq] Chicken Killer

Wed Oct 16 05:07:43 UTC 2013

Susan:

There are several feral cat trap, alter and release programs around the country.
 Try asking your vet, local animal control or animal rescue groups in the area. 
I used one here in Phoenix.  I trapped 3 cats, 2 were spayed and 1 was nuetered.
 It was quite inexpensive to have it done.

Good luck.

Nella

Quoting Susan Roe <dogwoodfarm at verizon.net>:

> We haven't seen the orange cat since we've been putting the hens up, but I'm
> sure he has not gone on yet.  We are pretty watchful during evening feeding
> time that none of the roaming cats eat with our barn cats.  Now that Matt is
> home, the hens will be put together where they will be the safest in coop 1.
> Little Hen, my oldest, won't be too happy with 3 other hens in her private
> coop, but she will get them all straight.
>
> I've decided to start trapping the cats a few at a time and sorting out
> which ones we are going to fix and keep and which ones will be leaving and
> not returning.  I'll have to call around and see what will be charged for
> fixing the ones we want to keep.
>
> Susan
> dogwoodfarm at verizon.net
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jewel" <jewelblanch at kinect.co.nz>
> To: "Agricultural and Equestrean Division List" <ag-eq at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2013 4:22 PM
> Subject: Re: [Ag-eq] Chicken Killer
>
>
> > 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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