Escaping chickens!!

[Ms. Cluckingly]

So what do you do when your cat aids chicken escapes? Every time I come home, she's let them out again, and she just sits with them and walks with them while they are on the floor. Sometimes I come home just to chicken poo on the carpet.. she has put them back in their brooder and then she sits there and looks at me like..."What?"

 

[haygrif]

I made sure to keep the chicks separated from the cats and dogs until they were old enough to go outside where they could poop freely. Kept them in a separate room in my house.

 

[wanderseek]

Here's another strange escaping chicken dilemma....we've seen ours looking up towards the top of their pen, like they're thinking, "Now if I start here and jump at this angle, then grab for the fencing, I should be able to launch myself right outa the top of this thing..." They flap their wings real hard, jump up at the upright "wall" of the pen (which is chain link fencing wrapped on the outside with chicken wire), they get their toes hooked in the fence, and literally "walk" right up the wall, flapping all the way. They've come close to getting all the way to the top. Most of the pen is covered at the top so they can't get out, but there is one end of it that we still haven't gotten covered yet. No one has escaped just yet, but we're nervously hoping we can get that thing the rest of the way covered before anyone dose get out.

 

[OwensMom]

You see, the problem is that you have a siamese cat!!!!! Aren't they the most wonderful little souls? I would keep her away from the chicks while you cannot supervise then when you can be around let her mother them. I'm on the western slope-are there any chicken shows, swaps etc. in CO that you know of? Lynn

 

[Ms. Cluckingly]

You all are deffinatly right. I'm going to have to keep her away from them when I'm not even in the same room. I had JUST took her out and repaired the screen, gave her a stern talking to, then of course rubbed her belly and then she went right back in!! Inside their closed part. They don't mind her. They actually enjoy her, but she broke my screen that keeps them from getting out.

It was the only one I had.

 

[Ms. Cluckingly]

I forgot to answer your other question about chicken shows. Honestly, I have NO idea. I'm fairly new to being a chicken mommy myself. Umm.. could probably try and look up Poultry Clubs or something like that. It would be super fun to go to one.

 

[newchicksnducks]

Our cat loves to watch our birds. Once she was sitting in the sun when something startled one of our free ranging pullets. The pullet walked right over the cat! Poor cat now keeps her distance from the chickens I would put something heavy on top of the screen so that the cat can't flip up the lid and abet in the escape of your chickens. I put a book, piece of 2x4, etc on top of ours...it does the trick.