Darn thing ate our favorite chicken 🐯🐱 UNKNOWN FELINE 🐱🐯

Spotted them here coming back for more right in the middle of the day.

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u/JorikThePooh 🦠 WILDLIFE BIOLOGIST 🦠 Sep 23 '24

Bobcat

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u/f_crick Sep 23 '24

Will it travel away after a few days?

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u/Pearl-2017 Sep 23 '24

Not if there is a food source. Reenforce your coup

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u/f_crick Sep 23 '24

Coop and run are fine - they’d been let out in the open when it attacked :(

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u/outxfmyhead Sep 23 '24

I’m sorry about your chickens :(

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u/Rico-L Sep 23 '24

This is an underrated comment…. Yes I think a lot of us failed to recognize that OP mentioned they lost their favorite chicken 😞

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u/spaceguyy Sep 24 '24

It's always the favorite that gets killed.

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u/RandomPlayer314 Sep 24 '24

How do they know...

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u/augustbluemoon Sep 24 '24

They can smell the extra love, I'm sure of it

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u/KenIgetNadult Sep 24 '24

When the extra ingredient is love, you know it just tastes better.

(Sorry for your chicken OP).

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u/RandomPlayer314 Sep 24 '24

Shit! How do I hide my love for my animals!?

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u/Rico-L Sep 25 '24

Hahaha 😂

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u/envelopelope Sep 24 '24

I wonder if the favorite gets too domesticated and has a less intense prey drive.

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u/DogMeatTheVideo Sep 25 '24

...or fear of predators. I heartily agree that the faves get too comfortable. That said, it's actually COOL that your,(OP), space has bobcats, they need their habitat! Reinforce the coop,( like fort knox), you'll be happy you did when the foxes, raccoons, minks, weasels, coyotes, domestic stray dogs come calling.

I didn't catch whether the chickens were in the coop at the time of demise and if the incident was seen. Is it possible that something else killed her and then bobcat came along?

I keep free range chickens and they go inside my fort knox before dusk, absolutely. After a mink got in one winter I learned just how tight the "seams" have to be.

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u/Excellent_Jaguar_675 Sep 25 '24

That sucks. I have had that happen. Then had a great Pyrenees and no more predation

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u/Pearl-2017 Sep 23 '24

You need to invest in a highly trained guardian dog

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u/fentifanta3 Sep 23 '24

Or an alpaca!

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u/Calgary_Calico Sep 23 '24

Really? You can use alpacas as guard animals? That's awesome!

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u/Smax140 Sep 24 '24

Along the lines of weird guard animals... Apple Farmers in Japan have a problem w Monkeys attacking their orchards. Soze they use Turkeys to guard the bottoms of the trees.

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u/Calgary_Calico Sep 24 '24

That's actually fantastic lol

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u/BleedTheRain Sep 24 '24

Kinda like a donkey, its capable of turning small predators into a literal meat pancake.

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u/KnightDiver381 Sep 24 '24

I saw cannabis farmers in Jamaica use them as lookouts. The farmers would grow on top of the mountain and they’d leave their donkeys lower down the mountain to raise the alarm if anyone started to come up behind them. Neat animals!

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u/ReallyNotBobby Sep 24 '24

Donkeys can be proper assholes but yeah they can absolutely stomp and bite the hell out of a fair few predators.

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u/browneyedgirlpie Sep 24 '24

Reminds me of the video where the donkey was carrying a goat around in his mouth

https://www.reddit.com/r/zoology/s/1ULDfgJOOX

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u/ReallyNotBobby Sep 24 '24

Look at their cousins, zebras. They kick the shit out of everything.

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u/Shadsea2002 Sep 24 '24

Alpacas are powerful and dangerous animals.

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u/Narrow_Obligation_95 Sep 24 '24

Cougars are their main predators in Peru.

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u/D3lacrush 🦕🦄 GENERAL KNOW IT ALL 🦄🦕 Sep 24 '24

And the cougars get their shit kicked in 50% of the time

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u/Excellent_Jaguar_675 Sep 25 '24

Llamas can send them flying. They are larger and taller than alpaca. We adopted an elderly gentleman Llama and he was awesome! The sheep and goats loved him!

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u/Top_Conversation1652 Sep 24 '24

Yeah, but then you have to buy a rhino to keep the Alpacas in the line.

It never stops.

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u/Legitimate-Account46 Sep 24 '24

I saw this episode of The Simpsons and it doesn't bode well

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u/Narrow_Obligation_95 Sep 24 '24

Grain works for pacas.

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u/stickynote_oracle Sep 24 '24

Llamas and alpacas are like security guards but they feel like they are the GOAT secret service for your farm animal friends. They join the home-group and will defend their pack fearlessly.

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u/Extension_Feature700 Sep 25 '24

My in-laws use alpacas to keep coyotes away.

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u/lol_alex Sep 24 '24

Or a donkey! Although Alpacas are cooler and you can use their wool.

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u/PublicfreakoutLoveR Sep 24 '24

I happen to love my donkey-wool socks.

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u/lol_alex Sep 24 '24

Now I am imagining someone having to shear an uncooperative donkey…

You probably just brush them when they shed, right?

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u/nIxMoo Sep 24 '24

If it was a canid I'd say "or a donkey!" But, yeah dog or alpaca.

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u/dwbmsc Sep 23 '24

Or a rooster!

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u/CandyHeartFarts Sep 24 '24

Or a donkey!

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u/Excellent_Jaguar_675 Sep 25 '24

Donkeys are the underrated equine that will just amaze you with their intelligence and personality.

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u/Excellent_Jaguar_675 Sep 25 '24

Yes! A mini donkey, alpaca, llama or guardian dog. Even a couple large geese can do it!

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '24

when there is easily accessible food where there are predators, the predators will take advantage of the easily accessible food.

we gotta remember this is their home, and respect them. i do hope you can keep your chickens safe, but sacrifices will continue to be made. it’s just the way it is.

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u/Misha-Nyi Sep 23 '24

This is their home? That cat’s probably only a few years old what are you even talking about.

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u/Rico-L Sep 23 '24

They mean bobcats were technically there before those chickens were brought there … mind you … not the kittens or cubs but the species itself … odds are the chickens were brought to the land after OP moved or the like… bobcats are instinctively going to behave as a bobcat is going to behave lol

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u/Misha-Nyi Sep 23 '24

I’m not saying bobcats aren’t going to murder a chicken. I’m saying giving bobcats, or any animal for that matter, some sort of ancestral land ownership is a ridiculous take. Humans have been on Earth just as long as these animals.

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u/Call_me_Bombadil Sep 23 '24

And if we want them to still be around in a couple centuries we gotta learn to live with them

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '24

no one ever said land ownership or anything of the sort. i’m simply saying to co exist with bobcats (especially if you have chickens) this sort of thing will happen. it’s just the way it is.

reactive comments (i do them all the time as well) shows lack of thinking and only makes us look like fools (i’m admittedly a fool. working on it 👍)

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u/Calgary_Calico Sep 23 '24

We, as a species have literally taken over wood habitats over the last several thousand years. That's why we see predators and large prey animals inside cities. You're clearly very ignorant on the impact of cities expanding has on local wildlife. We're in their home.

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u/Misha-Nyi Sep 24 '24

When other animals take over the territory of other animals do you same the same thing? As intelligent as humans are logic seems to evade most of us.

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u/Tulip_Tree_trapeze Sep 24 '24

Well it's definitely pretty obvious that logic is avoiding you.

If you can't see the amount of damage humans have done to the Earth then you are either blind or a troll.

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u/Calgary_Calico Sep 24 '24

Animals literally fight over territory... Often to the death.

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u/Misha-Nyi Sep 24 '24

Yes? As has been the case since the beginning of time. Is that statement you made your final answer to my question? Do you think the animals that win that fight feel bad for the ones that lost? Do you think they stop and reflect on the fact that species they just killed may have been there first?

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u/Calgary_Calico Sep 24 '24

Animals literally fight over territory... Often to the death.

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u/BillyWeir Sep 23 '24

Damn son not envious of you being stuck with your own thoughts. Sedentary/agricultural human life (the sort of life that comes into conflict with native flora and fauna) has only been around like 12k years. Downright goofy take on your end.

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u/Misha-Nyi Sep 24 '24

What? So your argument is that humans only became an ‘invasive’ species once we learned agriculture? Holy hell lol. The circular logic in this sub is mind blowing.

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u/lessrains Sep 24 '24

Damn. You're just a dull crayon man.

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u/Misha-Nyi Sep 24 '24

Good one. You’ve saved a lot of bobcats by posting that here.

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u/DarthJarJar242 Sep 23 '24

Room temp IQ comment.

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u/Misha-Nyi Sep 23 '24

Sub zero temp IQ reply.

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '24

There are several things you can do to deter it from coming back

https://www.google.com/search?q=Bobcat+deterrents&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari