Chickens and cats

[Guinea and Chicken raiser]

that's good. i never knew you'd really have to wash a chickens butt... but I had to for one chicken baby... we had a hen in the house and she killed 4 baby birds that weren't hers, and I noticed one of my female barred rocks had it's butt sticking out, still does... there was a mattedness of poo and i pulled it off slowly and it was under there too, in another clump, i took that off the bird, washed it too... but the thing is, when you have a wet bird, you put blow dryer or put the bird near a heater/heating device us humans use to keep warm... a towel alone would take forever, and birds can die of hypothermia. so the quicker, the better, don't put the bird too close to heat, but close enough... and don't keep it in same spot, move it back and forth, near and away... let it breathe regular air temp. for a bit but not too long. till it's dry.

Our fat cat is scared of the chickens. I had to bring a hen in to wash her butt, and he comes sauntering in while she's drying off on my lap. (very tame hen) She looks at him and starts cackling, hops off my lap towards him, and he freezes. Then he bolted when she took one step closer.
Though now he sleeps on top of the brooder and watches the babies. Those are "his" peepers, all day and and all night he guards them. He likes our dogs, but if they come up to the brooder he swats at them. Not sure of his intentions but he's being good. I pulled a chick out for a close inspection of gender, and he head butted my hand for a pat and sniffed at the chick, then settled down to watch. He was sweet, maybe he has good intentions after all. He certainly lays on the brooder as if it's his. He's abandoned evening couch time for that brooder!