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RE: CHICKEN CAMOUFLAGE - THOUGHTS TO CONSIDER WHEN FREE RANGING CHICKENS
You are so right. All the white chickens (white rock) usually are the first to be sacrificed to the free range raiders. For us, Barred Rocks usually lasted the longest. We have the problem of bald eagles around here. They seem to kill chickens for fun. And nothing one can do about their depredations except keep the chickens in a cage. I have confronted many a bob cat looking for a chicken snack.
Wow, I've yet to meet a bobcat, but I've heard they are around here too.
You got chickens, mister B. Cat will eventually come calling. A bob cat isn't so scary (although they can mess you up, they are not likely to unless you get too close to the kittens and usually will move along.. but a local woman did end up with a 150 stitches when one landed on her out of a tree). Its the mountain lions on the loose way away from the mountains that I don't care for. We had a mountain lion kill a deer a 100 ft from my front door. And this is Nebraska. Its why I most times don't go cut firewood without the Glock 20.
If you have house cats that start disappearing you might have a bob cat around. The house cats aren't afraid of its smell, don't run away and the bob cats think Fluffy is tasty.