[Ag-eq] Chicken Killer

Wed Oct 16 12:43:20 UTC 2013

Even neutered, it's still a predator, and, if it's released, will go on 
killing chickens, and anything else it can get its claws on.  I really 
dislike feral cats.
Tracy

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <nfoster at extremezone.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2013 1:07 AM
Subject: Re: [Ag-eq] Chicken Killer

>
>
> 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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