[Jacob-list] Bobcat!

[im rapunzil]

Oh no!  I'm so upset now!  Can anyone advise me how I can protect my sheep & goats, other than my gentleman friend shooting it?  I have post and rail fencing with wire sheep fence attached to it, but the bobcat was able to get through/over the fence.
Cindy

You live by writing your poems on a farm
and call that farming.

 


Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 22:46:42 -0700
From: kenleighacres at yahoo.com
Subject: Re: [Jacob-list] Bobcat!
To: im-rapunzil at hotmail.com; jacob-list at jacobsheep.com







I know a farm that raises Boer goats and they had full grown does being taken down by bobcats.  They would attack and grap the jugular and hang on until the does went down and died.  They would then eat ONLY the mammary tissue.  They trapped a handful of bobcats and now they have a pair of Anatolians.  Haven't had any problems since.  Before I heard this, I didn't think a bobcat could take down a full grown goat or sheep.  Hopefully you don't have any problems!  
 
Shannon Phifer
Kenleigh Acres Farm
www.kenleigh-acres.com
That'll Do Photography
www.thatlldo.photoreflect.com
 






From: im rapunzil <im-rapunzil at hotmail.com>
To: Jacob List <jacob-list at jacobsheep.com>
Sent: Mon, August 30, 2010 5:41:41 PM
Subject: [Jacob-list] Bobcat!



Well turns out this evening around 6:30 PM my gentleman friend saw a bobcat slinking around in the sheep/goat pasture.
 
My lambs are half grown, but goats much smaller - pygmy's that are only 10 weeks.  I figured not to chance it and brought all of them in the barn for the night.  
 
Now my question is  When my lambs and goats are full-grown, can a bobcat still take one down?

You live by writing your poems on a farm
and call that farming.


 










 		 	   		  
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