mat
Anyone out there have any experience with something eating their chickens? I am loosing chickens to some animal that likes to eat their heads and insides and leave the rest. Some said a Luwak could do this but I thought apart from fruit they only ate small mammals. I wanted to keep my chickens free range, but unless I can find out what's killing them they will have to be housed permanently. If it is a luwak, does anyone know how to catch it or what to do with it? I really don't want to kill it. Be nice to keep the chickens free range if poss. Any suggestions much appreciated..... hopefully.
sherm
As I read Luwak (Civet) are very similar to Raccoons we have in north America. When I was raising chickens many years ago we a a raccoon problem where the chickens were disemboweled and the oviducts consumed. I'd bet a Bintang that's what happening...
sakumabali
mat I think it's a waran you know the big fellows, balinese farmers truly hate them cause they eat their chicken
Andrew
If its a Luwak, try to find the chicken heads and sell them as Ayam Luwak together with Copi Luwak. @Marc: I dont think lizards will only eat the head and insides, but not 100% sure.
sakumabali
maybe it's the gourmet lizard aka Hannibal "Head off" War'an, no serious what's their name? They are as long and big as my leg yeah probably they would eat the whole chicken you're right
balibule
Would be a cool photography project, camera traps etc.[/QUOTE]What are you waiting for :excitement:. I think we are all curious now.
mat
How long does it take to get to Lovina on a moped! Would be simple to just set up a camera with a sacrificial chicken in a controlled area overnight, you could feed an old video or webcam through to a hard drive and record the whole sordid event.[/QUOTE]Nice Idea and you are welcome if you are serious [which I somehow doubt]. But still doesn't solve my problem. I have put a 1 juta price on it, to capture it alive. still no takers. looks like a chicken wire enclosure is the only way.
gilbert de jong
I have no idea if it's true or not.. but my neighbor says it's typical for a rat to kill your chickens in that way..Says he had the same problem and he put some old fashioned rat traps around the place to catch it..He never catched it, but a couple of days later he did stumble over a large snake in the sawah and he said the rat probably got eaten by the snake.
mat
Never heard of a preditor rat. In the countryside the rats are tiny. I just don't see it.The chickens roost in the trees. By morning the damage is done.Still looking for a good live trapper in north Bali. 1 juta. I already have a buyer for the captured beast who will spend an easy retirement eating fruit and coffee beans.
sherm
The giant rat of Sumatra....
gilbert de jong
he said there are two kinds of rats..the small one with a long pointy snout and then there's the killer rat hahaha.
Markit
Mat I recon it's your missus trying to cover up for having sold the damned chickens you've left her to look after. Or get a cat.
Dyah
Last year my husband and i we bought about 20 fish -Ikan Lele- for our pond in our house in Jimbaran, so we thought ... no -baby frogs and mosquitoes- can live there.. But after a few days the fish are gone. We bought it all, and the fish were gone. Maybe warane? I dont know.
Markit
Maybe check your gardener... :O) or the neighbour kids?
mat
Maybe check your gardener... :O) or the neighbour kids?[/QUOTE]Probably the kids. Our neighbour built a pond and stocked it with fish. When they went out to work the local kids rushed in and were grabbing the fish and running off with them. We managed to stop a few and tell their parents but, the parents didn't seem to think it unusual or tell the kids off. Same with a friend who stays here most of the time. When he went back to his native country a huge pondfull of fish dissapeared as well as half his chickens. I think anything that walks or swims is seen as fair game.
Markit
Haha - scrumping (as it's known in England) seems to be a national sport here. When anywhere in hearing distance a coconut comes down half the staff go hairing off to see who can be the first to find it - and all the neighbours too. When I point out there are 40+ coconut trees on the property and they can have as many as they want, noses are turned up and I get a pitying look - I'm used to that.
Dyah
:-) No kids on the street nearby my neigbourhood ... :-( so i must try once more, buy 20 "Lele" fish... and ask the gardener ...
Markit
Dyah it just occured to me to ask how deep your pool is? If it's not very deep (80+ cm.) then you might have some very happy seabirds in your neighbourhood.
Dyah
our pond is not very deep mx 1 meter .... Hmm seabirds ... maybe.thx and regards ...Dyah
longqi
Plenty of diving birds can easily reach 10 metresBut they seldom grab lele because of the poison spinesMusang and rats will both attack chooksinnards and head area seem to be preferred targetsLizards like biawaks/goannas will too but will usually rip the chook apart
