Introducing the New Girls..Plus Bob Cat Update...

These old girls have yet to be named as they only arrived late Thursday afternoon...I am told they are still laying, but time will tell if they are or not...If they are not, well I guess they will help us get rid of the table scraps lol.

I know yall think we must be crazy to get more chickens when we have a bob cat problem, well funnily enough Thursday morning that problem was taken care of by the neighbors ...Later that day a friend of mine called me to tell me of 2 chickens needing a new home...So here they are...

Today is the girls first time out of the pen, as you can see Master Bravo is more than happy to show them around...Lil Sara was told she must stay with Nadia (the dog) so not to scare the new girls away...A well trained dog will do wonders as a child rearing tool lol.

Master Bravo lead the new girls across the yard to his favorite spot...

The Communal dust bath lol..

(WARNING: Details and image of bob cat are posted below, if you think it will offend please do not scroll any farther)

BOB CAT UPDATE:

As most of you know for the last few months ourselves and our neighbors across the other side of the 55 acre hay field have been plagued by a bob cat...I lost both my ducks (The Tweedle Boys) These ducks weighed in at 10+ pounds a piece, so we knew we were not dealing with a light weight predator...

It was also very crafty and cunning, and managed to snatch 2 of my laying hens right out of my chicken coop which has a six foot wire fence around it, with in just 2 days of each other...Not to mention taking full grown turkeys from the neighbors pen as well.

He was pretty braize the night he took our last hen, because it was just 10pm and all the lights and TV were on in the house and since the pen is just on the other side of the driveway and lite by the security light, it was a bit of a shock he would not wait until all was quiet.

The most frightening thing though is the risk to the children, as you know we have lil Sara who is just 2.5yrs old and they neighbors have a 4yr old...Needless to say we had not being allowing the children outside an hour before dusk unless with an adult...

Thursday morning at 10.30am, as I was getting myself and lil Sara ready to go to the library and I hear, pop-pop-pop and then Nadia our dog barking...It is hunting season (or was until this weekend) around here so did not think much of it...

Just 10minutes later as I am about to pull out of my driveway my neighbors pull in with this in the back of their truck...

He was walking through their yard in broad daylight...So he was not just a threat to the animals anymore...I am so proud of Peggy, as it was her that shot him...I think I would have been pooping in my pants and not had the frame of mind to grab the gun...

I know that some of you are probably going to be offended by this post and my soft animal rights heart hates that such a beautiful creature had to die...but the mother in me is very relieved, especially when just 2 weeks ago a full grown woman in a neighboring county was bitten by a bobcat in her own backyard when she tried to rescue her cat from being attacked. That bobcat turned out to be rabid.

Kelsie