EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

[mlm Mike]

If a wandering dog kills a chicken it gets locked up by animal control (if not shot first). What happens if a neighborhood cat kills chickens or chicks? Does animal control have any jurisdiction on dealing with it?

Yes, cats are supposed to be kept on their own property or under control just like dogs.

Do you have the right to protect your property ?(=to kill any dog that enter your land and kill/Threatening to kill your farm animals?)

You can shoot if worrying livestock, or you are threatened.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Yes, cats are supposed to be kept on their own property or under control just like dogs.
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The thing that I just don't understand and hate is the number of people that feed colonies of feral cats. And I don't feel as though the TNR (trap neuter release) program is having any impact.
A couple of my friends volunteer at an animal control center. They neuter between 40 and 100 cats every other Sunday. Then they rerelease them to their old neighborhoods to terrorize wildlife.
I used to rarely see a cat here. There is a retirement home behind my property that was feeding about 10 feral cats. Then they stopped and the cats looked for a new home.
I'm pro euthanasia. There is no shortage of cats but there are many species of threatened wildlife.

 

[mlm Mike]

The thing that I just don't understand and hate is the number of people that feed colonies of feral cats. And I don't feel as though the TNR (trap neuter release) program is having any impact.
A couple of my friends volunteer at an animal control center. They neuter between 40 and 100 cats every other Sunday. Then they rerelease them to their old neighborhoods to terrorize wildlife.
I used to rarely see a cat here. There is a retirement home behind my property that was feeding about 10 feral cats. Then they stopped and the cats looked for a new home.
I'm pro euthanasia. There is no shortage of cats but there are many species of threatened wildlife.

I don't know why people feed them.

I don't see many feral cats here, they probably just find a barn and become a barn cat. We've had two cats that I suspect were dumped out in the country. They were just too friendly and wanted in the house, held and petted. Not typical feral or barn cat traits. Well, some barn cats.

 

[mlm Mike]

This from the incubation suggestion on the lead page of this thread. I have not had a lot of luck hatching eggs in the past so I am trying to follow the info on page one of this thread as closely as I can to see if the results are better. There is a study noted on the post link below but I have not taken the time to read it. We'll see how it works. I usually murder a bunch after lock down so I am hoping this will make them a little stronger.

O2 deprivation to day 10 of incubation followed by regular oxygen concentrations leads to stronger chicks post #33815

I see you are in Colorado, if you're at high elevation, you might want to read up on high elevation hatching.

 

[Akrnaf2]

The only one that is widely prohibited are pit bulls. If you go to animal shelters here, they are full of them. There are several more of those super aggressive unpredictable breeds here like the dogo but they are so uncommon, they haven't found themselves into restrictive legislation.

Here it began when it was published that some stupid people had used pit bulls for dog fights and there was some incidents where people, and especially children where severely attacked by pit bulls.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

This from the incubation suggestion on the lead page of this thread. I have not had a lot of luck hatching eggs in the past so I am trying to follow the info on page one of this thread as closely as I can to see if the results are better. There is a study noted on the post link below but I have not taken the time to read it. We'll see how it works. I usually murder a bunch after lock down so I am hoping this will make them a little stronger.

O2 deprivation to day 10 of incubation followed by regular oxygen concentrations leads to stronger chicks post #33815

I see you are in Colorado, if you're at high elevation, you might want to read up on high elevation hatching.

Problems associated with incubating at high elevation are low oxygen, humidity and cold air. Introduction of ambient air to increase oxygen reduces humidity and bringing in cooler air can cause temperature issues.
The threshold seems to be 5,000' elevation.
I hope to be incubating at high elevation some day and I surmise that an oxygen concentrator may be the solution.
From what I've read is that when birds live and lay eggs at higher elevations have the ability to reduce the porosity of the egg shells. Air molecules move faster at elevation so more porous shells would lose moisture faster. Incubating eggs produced at sea level would cause particular problems when incubated at high elevations.
Maybe I'll raise birds at high elevation and incubate at low elevation.
https://thepoultrysite.com/articles/incubating-eggs-at-high-altitudes

 

[Akrnaf2]

The thing that I just don't understand and hate is the number of people that feed colonies of feral cats. And I don't feel as though the TNR (trap neuter release) program is having any impact.
A couple of my friends volunteer at an animal control center. They neuter between 40 and 100 cats every other Sunday. Then they rerelease them to their old neighborhoods to terrorize wildlife.
I used to rarely see a cat here. There is a retirement home behind my property that was feeding about 10 feral cats. Then they stopped and the cats looked for a new home.
I'm pro euthanasia. There is no shortage of cats but there are many species of threatened wildlife.

My freind, a lot of them (the people that feed them) don't really control their behaviour they are infected with the parasite, Toxoplasmosis, ( Toxoplasma gondi)that change their behaviour,!
They become "crazy cat ladies "!
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/are-cats-responsible-for-ldquo-cat-ladies-rdquo/

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Here it began when it was published that some stupid people had used pit bulls for dog fights and there was some incidents where people, and especially children where severely attacked by pit bulls.

That's the same impetus here. Plus, it seems every macho type wants a macho pit bull but are not devoted enough to train them well. Hence all the pit bulls in shelters.

 

[Akrnaf2]

That's the same impetus here. Plus, it seems every macho type wants a macho pit bull but are not devoted enough to train them well. Hence all the pit bulls in shelters.

It seems that the "Macho" B.S is the same all over the world. Here usually the "5 cent " criminals (has we use to call them here ) or A thug criminal as you would call them used to have them.

 

[hippiestink]

That's the same impetus here. Plus, it seems every macho type wants a macho pit bull but are not devoted enough to train them well. Hence all the pit bulls in shelters.

Highly agree. I grew up around pitbulls, my uncle was a breeder for a while. Sweet dogs if trained well. Most people don't bother and then wonder why they aren't well behaved.

That's true for most dogs though.