Poor thing. We got lucky that the bobcat stayed up late, showing up just after light so that Whitey had a chance at escape.

Have you noticed that your chickens act nuts the days before an attack? It has happened twice that the chickens don't want to put themselves up in the coop at dusk like normal the night or two before an attack. Over the last 8 years we have only had two wild animal incidents, and both times the animals must have harassed the chickens for nights before so that the chickens were pretty spooked. Unfortunately, I didn't learn from the first time because there were so many years in between them, and chickens are just nuts sometimes and you don't know why.

No one is a proper chicken owner until having gone out to the coop half dressed and gotten clobbered by a branch :)

Thanks so much for reading.