Should I try and kill this bobcat?

[Coffetym]

Check your dept of wildlife to see what steps they recommend, and what is lawful (or not) in dealing with this larger predator.

You now have a dinner buffet and predator will keep coming back until buffet is closed.

People who insist that free ranging is the only way, or that they cannot fence them need to have a replacement plan for the ones lost to the great circle of free-range-life. Basically, know that you will loose various animals and need to routinely replace them.

Check your dept of wildlife to see what steps they recommend, and what is lawful (or not) in dealing with this larger predator.

You now have a dinner buffet and predator will keep coming back until buffet is closed.

People who insist that free ranging is the only way, or that they cannot fence them need to have a replacement plan for the ones lost to the great circle of free-range-life. Basically, know that you will loose various animals and need to routinely replace them.

This is so true, if you’re free ranging you will definitely lose some & once the hawks & 4 legged predators find the easy meal they’ll almost never leave.

 

[Coffetym]

Have you thought about electric poultry fencing? If you kill that bobcat another will take its place. As a poultry owner it is your job to protect your birds, not to exterminate the local wildlife.

Seems like one might at times involve the other.
I guess most people just haven’t worked as hard as I have over the years for the things that they own.
If I’m asked nicely I will donate to a worthy cause but I have an extreme disdain for human or animal trying to take or destroy what is mine.

 

[Coffetym]

Patrol the area regularly to get your scent all over the ground. It won't stop every predator, but it can make them think twice. Consider getting a dog, though you'll have another animal to feed and you'll need to train it to leave your chickens alone.

Finally, I'd shoot the bobcat and then drop the carcass next to the chicken coop. They're omnivores. Might give the chickens some help and cut it open, but otherwise, they'll know what to do.

Patrol the area regularly to get your scent all over the ground. It won't stop every predator, but it can make them think twice. Consider getting a dog, though you'll have another animal to feed and you'll need to train it to leave your chickens alone.

Finally, I'd shoot the bobcat and then drop the carcass next to the chicken coop. They're omnivores. Might give the chickens some help and cut it open, but otherwise, they'll know what to do.

Be careful, some may think you’re too brutal & have you sent to sensitivity training!

 

[eworms]

Be careful, some may think you’re too brutal & have you sent to sensitivity training!

Waste not, want not.

 

[Altairsky]

I don’t have a clue what you might know about that fact of nature called the food chain, but most predatory animals have no natural enemies that they have to worry about. If the predator population is never controlled, it becomes extremely overpopulated & will become a danger & a nuisance to humans, pet’s & livestock.
You may not believe it but a bobcat or a coyote especially if the coyote is in a pack will not hesitate to take your little fluffy poodle out of your yard & even attack children. You might find this hard to believe but I’ve lived in rural/country areas most of my life & personally know people that can attest to this.

You better not assume I'm a city DA.
I keep livestock (cattle) and we have big wolves that are getting out of control. However in my country - and probably the whole EU - it is illegal to kill wildlife, no matter what damage it does. Yet, we still keep livestock and have little to no losses. I even free range.
I guess when you're not allowed to solve every problem with guns, you grow more brain to find alternatives.

 

[UglyDuckling1009]

I got a wildlife nuisance permit and dispatched two of them.

Did it work?

 

[McChooky]

Its sorta like pacman .For every one you kill 2 will take their place.

 

[Coffetym]

Its sorta like pacman .For every one you kill 2 will take their place.

If this were true, the conservationists would not have had to reintroduce the black bear, bald eagle, gray wolf, & several species of owls in the US. I know there is more but that’s just a few.

 

[Coffetym]

You better not assume I'm a city DA.
I keep livestock (cattle) and we have big wolves that are getting out of control. However in my country - and probably the whole EU - it is illegal to kill wildlife, no matter what damage it does. Yet, we still keep livestock and have little to no losses. I even free range.
I guess when you're not allowed to solve every problem with guns, you grow more brain to find alternatives.

Here on this side of the pond, some of us still believe in fixing our own problems.

 

[fuzzi]

Here on this side of the pond, some of us still believe in fixing our own problems.