Dead Hen

[tellico4x4]

Laying in middle of one of our roads Saturday. Found it about 1:00 and she was still warm. Varmint had started to eat but thought that it was weird for middle of day & feeding in the wide open road. Teeth marks on head were very small so assuming it was a bobcat, which is also strange for middle of day.

 

[pockets]

I would also say bobcat. I have seen them in the middle of the day twice chasin deer.

 

[Andy S.]

It happens, but I'd like to kick that bobcat square in his hind end.

 

[Grainger]

A well done Bobcat mount is a fine addition to anyone's trophy room.

 

[tellico4x4]

We kill everyone we see. A few years ago I attached a rabbit squeal call to my bino case. It accounts for several cats & yotes each year. Amazing how far they will come running to it. Often one will cross the far end of food plot & get by me. All it takes is a couple of squeals and they'll return running to within a few yards of stand.

 

[megalomaniac]

I bet hawk... bobcat would have hauled the kill to cover and eaten more of it. Hawk will dive bomb one to kill, then start picking on the least feathered areas first. Easily disturbed off the kill site, and does a lot more midday hunting than a bobcat. Not likely a bobcat would have been able to catch a hen in the middle of a food plot if it is short, whereas turkeys are extremely vulnerable to avian predators when they are out of the cover of trees.

 

[Bucket]

I bet hawk... bobcat would have hauled the kill to cover and eaten more of it. Hawk will dive bomb one to kill, then start picking on the least feathered areas first. Easily disturbed off the kill site, and does a lot more midday hunting than a bobcat. Not likely a bobcat would have been able to catch a hen in the middle of a food plot if it is short, whereas turkeys are extremely vulnerable to avian predators when they are out of the cover of trees.

I agree. I've had them dive bomb a decoy.

 

[backyardtndeer]

Agree with mega, a bobcat would not have left it.

 

[tellico4x4]

Hmmm, hawk didn't even cross my mind

 

[Andy S.]

I agree. I've had them dive bomb a decoy.

I've seen them dive bomb live turkeys and scatter them, but not come close to actually catching one.

 

[FredRog72]

I found a bobcat and turkey in the middle of a back road on Sunday. Not sure if the cat was trying to drag the turkey across the road and got hit or if the whole crime scene took place in the road but thought it was odd.

 

[huvrman]

I've got video from my home surveillance cameras on two separate occasions of bobcats killing chickens midday and holding them down/killing them, then leaving them to chase other chickens.