Cats...

[Dogfish]

Meow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

After trapping give each kitty a proper hazing. This would include at a minimum a complete soaking with a hose (5 minutes minimum), a bit of roughing up while in the trap (shake it like you are trying to coat the kitty with shake & bake), and your choice of a paintball or BB-gun barage ( only from a Red Ryder BB gun, no pellet guns) send off to chase them out of the yard.

Don't hurt them, but make sure they know they are not welcome. They will avoid your place, but you need to do it right. Cats fly when you let them out of the trap, and I have yet to have a repeat customer.

 

[Cetawin]

Bwahahahahahahahhaha

LOVE IT! Dogfish...you just became my new hero!


OP...trap the kitties and leave them in the traps for the neighbors to come and inquire about their return.

 

[Two Creeks Farm]

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[mangled]

I lost my favorite EE hen to a pair of feral cats a couple years back. Plus, our own barn cats can and will take a younger chick if they are unattended for even a moment.

The full size hens, for the most part, are given a wide berth. When I throw scraps down for them, the cats always come over. They may score a tiny tidbit now and again, but they'll most likely receive a pretty serious flogging or pecking in the process.

Ferals around here are treated as predators. They are trapped out and destroyed humanely.


Blessings-
Em

 

[sheila3935]

We have a couple of stray cats that the neighbor feeds. I have seen them in the chicken yard a couple of times. They dont mess with the big ones in fact my rooster usually runs them off but I dont trust them around the babies. Their run is fully enclosed so nothing can get to them. I have thought about getting a kitten to raise with the chickens so they can take care of the mice problem. We cant have a cat inside as DH is allergic and we have dogs, but the dogs are seperated from the chicken yard. I take care of the chickens so that would not be a problem for DH. Anyone else do this? What are your thoughts.

 

[speckledhen]

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Um, that'll do it.

 

[FiveAcres]

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Um, that'll do it.

I knew a guy years back that would catch raccoons on his property, then add an orange stripe via spray paint and set them off 10 miles away....he wanted to know if the little gremlins could make it all the way back....

 

[harveyhorses]

I have no chicks to worry about, but I have a neighborhood stray that keeps harassing my two cats, well this morning two of my BO decided they had seen enough of the bullying (pretty sure one of them has gone broody on me) they went after that big fluffy stranger with beaks and wings, there was quite the kerfluffle, and quite a bit of cat hair, perhaps some skin too. I had never seen the like of it. When the intruder got as far as the road the girls just went right back to scratching and snacking.
Broody=PMS.

 

[la dee da]

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Not to hijack the thread, but if these people don't clain ownership to these cats, take them to the humane society!! If they say the cats "aren't really thiers" the cats can be full of desease and who knows if they have their rabies shots.