How do you keep you goats and chickens safe from bobcats?
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Question by Sharon Rose: How do you keep you goats and chickens safe from bobcats?
Please help! I am A farm girl and I am deaply attached to animals. Every day a chicken or goats gets taken away by a bobcat and there is nothing I can do since I am only 15 years old.
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7 Responses to How do you keep you goats and chickens safe from bobcats?
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it’s called a fence
cobain was murdered
August 9, 2013 at 3:58 am
You put them in a paddock with high fences!
1177179
August 9, 2013 at 4:08 am
Call your local wildlife management agency. If the bobcats are a nuisance, in which this case they seem like they are, the wildlife agency should have someone that can trap the bobcats and relocate them so that they are not killing your farm animals.
Good luck!
Allison P
August 9, 2013 at 4:11 am
We have bobcats and cyotes around us too. I know you feel bad when you lose one of your livestock. But bobcats can crawl under fences and are very determined to find their prey at night. Is there any way your family can bobcat proof the chicken coop. I’m not sure about the goats. Can you keep them in a barn instead of a pen? One idea would be to rig your property so a bell or some sort of alarm would go off when the bobcats trip a wire. Best of luck to you
shootingstars957
August 9, 2013 at 4:16 am
I hear you loud and clear! When we had our farm we were always losing chickens to predatory animals. The only way to protect them is to build a large coop or pen. Why not talk to dad about the problem and see if the two of you can make building a coop a project you can work on together? Once I built my coop, I never lost another chicken to a predator.
As for the herd animals — our neighbors had a burro (donkey) that protected his herd of Barbado Sheep from wild animals, maybe you could think about getting one as a 4-H project. http://www.kbrhorse.net/whb/longears.html
Good luck!
Silver2sea
silver2sea
August 9, 2013 at 4:43 am
Shoot the cat. A dead cat can’t eat chickens.
robbob_55
August 9, 2013 at 5:07 am
Your animals need to be locked up tight at night. Whatever your family is using right now is not working. Chickens need a wooden coop and the goats need to behind a strong fence with a roof. I am sure that your parents don’t want to lose more money by losing the animals. This happened to us too, and a strong enclosure solved the problem.
spookyjimjams
August 9, 2013 at 6:00 am