[Ag-eq] Chicken Killer

Wed Oct 16 05:14:40 UTC 2013

The traps work well, but I've usually caught other cats and wild animals before
catching the right cat!

It could be very exciting if you caught a skunk!

When I was still living in Arkansas a neighbor and I were catching and altering
the wild cats in our neighborhood.  We also caught 2 racoons and a possum.  It
took us a long time to catch one of the ferl females.  We finally got them all
and I think everyone in the neighborhood appreciated it.

Keep us posted on the progress.

Nella
Quoting Susan Roe <dogwoodfarm at verizon.net>:

> 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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