my cat was out by the pen yesterday, I let all the chickens out and then opened up the pen on the inside so the turkeys could get a little more room. Well Miss Kitty was out there looking at the turkeys and would look at the other chickens and then at me with this look like, HOLY COW what is that, she is huge. I laughed so hard I was crying. The turkey was looking at her like, dont even think about it sister, I would have you for a snack.
I'm so upset! 3 babies dead and two more injured.
I'm trusting that, since I plan on getting HENS and not chicks, my kitties will be intimidated by the huge 2-legged cats with their 2 big teeth on the outside of their faces.
(They're such pussies.)
my cat has been around the chicks when they were 2 weeks old and as far as i know she never bothered them.
Mine always looked hard and decided that chickens were beneath their dignity (and possibly bigger and meaner but what cat'll 'fess up to that?).
My flock of adult guineas followed a feral cat down the driveway this morning ... screaming at it all the way till it walked under the neighbors fence and then jumped the creek.
Kelly in Moxee
LMAO! I bet that was hilarious to watch.
I would have fell over laughing. That would be to funny. I cant wait for mine to get big and protect.
Thank you everyone for your replies. I did wrap the wing and in a couple of days it was no longer dragging. I know the wing is okay because he is back to roosting up high in the fig tree. I had to wrap the wing several times because he would work and pull until the wrap was removed.
The cats don't seem to be bothering the chicks anymore. I guess they have gotten big enough to peck. I also keep a squirt bottle out in the yard so when the cats start chasing I give them a few big squirts of water. The cats take off running because they hate to be squirted.
It's the only thing that works! Churchill said dogs look up to us, cats look down on us, and pigs treat us as equals. I think he was right.
hi
I live in suburbia and got two babie chickens to hatch six months ago. at first they grew really well and had absolutly no probs at all.
Until one of them began to crow.....
So now he is living back at my schools agriculture plot and is totaly oblivios to the fact that my teacher is soon to kill him.
The sadest thing is not knowing when they will kill him. You see he is like a bro to me. i raised him and loved him and now hes gunna be killed. :(
I know I sound like a huge whinger but i really dont want hin to be killed.
Can any body in NSW Australia posibly have place for a lovely ,tame Rooster ( also very attractive, lovely white colour with a large brown sploge on the end of each wing)?
if any body needs a roo i am sure my teacher would let me buy him back and you could have him for free of me.
Thanks for reading
Chicken girl
Sure hope someone helps you out, Chicken girl.
You should start a new thread Chickengrl, I just stumbled on this by accident!
I think you would get better results.. I wish you luck..
what about Josh? hes in australia, right -- wonder what part?
Thank you i will start a new thread, but at first i couldnt work out how to :) and if you could give me some way to contact josh that would be great!
We have been raising chickens for a little over 3 years now. We have lost one to a neighbors dog, almost lost one to a hawk. Cats never bothered the chickens. We had leghorns that would chase stray cats out of the yard.
We have had a friendly neighbor cat come through the yard to stop by us outside and greet us, and it ignored the chickens completely.
And we have one chicken that I call our nursing home chicken. At some point she must have had a stroke. She can't see out of one eye, couldn't walk at all on one leg, but now limps on it some. We have to keep her in a pen away from the rest of the chickens, or they would pick on her. And she has still been laying eggs for us.
Remember, chickens will pick on any one that they single out as being weak also.
This is Mitties who we lost last month, with one of our 5 week old chicks. She would never hurt any of out baby chicks or adult chickens.
