Bobcat Tracks?

Update on Maude the fat hen: She is still with us and seems to be doing well. She has now survived both an Opossum and Bobcat attack.

Here are the pictures of the tracks that I found in the mud the next morning, I had walked all around in the pen the night before, trying to catch the chickens, so both the chickens and myself ruined most of the tracks and there were some tracks that had chicken prints on top of them. It was very sloppy and muddy that night, but it did freeze later on after I emptied the pen.

Several clawless toe tracks


Heal at the top and toes at the bottom, only 4 toes are actually visible here.

Other reasons that we feel this was a Bobcat is because of the speed at which it got into the dog kennel and out of it. I was in the house, my dog started barking, I heard the chain link rattle, then the chickens started screaming and I was out there very quickly without even taking the time to put on a coat. We really don't feel that a coon or coyote could have scaled that fence that quickly.

Also the size of the puncture wounds and the damage that was done to the hen in that span of time and the reaction of our horses, who were very spooked, they see coyotes, foxes and possums all the time.

Bobcat

I only found one good footprint frozen in the mud after our visitation Tuesday night. I am thinking Bobcat, I pointed it out to my DH and he thinks so too. I looked at tracking websites and this track matches the Bobcat track pretty closely. It was mostly a round track with round toes and no claw marks.

Maude is struggling to stay alive, her breathing is very labored, but she did get up and eat some this evening. My new rooster also has some injuries but nothing serious, he lost some feathers and has some bloody spots on his head.

I took some pictures of the track but I haven't transfered them to the computer yet, so I don't know if they turned out or not. I will post them here, if they did.