[Jacob-list] Bobcat!

[marguerite van beek]

I believe you are in NJ and I think they are are protected.  Unless of
course they attack you animals.  They are rarely seen so maybe he was
seaching for water since it has been a very hot and dry this past week.

Peg

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 8:59 AM, im rapunzil <im-rapunzil at hotmail.com>wrote:


> 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

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> 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

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>    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!

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> Shannon Phifer

> Kenleigh Acres Farm

> www.kenleigh-acres.com

> That'll Do Photography

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> *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!

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> Well turns out this evening around 6:30 PM my gentleman friend saw a bobcat

> slinking around in the sheep/goat pasture.

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> 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.

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> Now my question is  When my lambs and goats are full-grown, can a bobcat

> still take one down?

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> *You live by writing your poems on a farm*

> *and call that farming.*

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