fighting over catfood!

[Carole AM]

My poor cats don't stand a chance! This always happens when I go do chores.

It's always Trevor (the OEGB) and the chanteclers! Did ya ever pull a hen out of your feeedsack?

 

[eichenluft]

My chickens go GA-GA over the barn cats' food. I have to fill their dish at night when the chickens are roosting/sleeping or they won't get any. What gets me, is the cat food is made from - CHICKEN!!!! LOLOLOLOL. But I read that it's good protein for the chickens - in the summer I guess they can get their good protein by eating the bugs and dead critters they find (yeah they fight over mice and other things that I hit with my lawn mower). I mix cat food into their feed, they LOVE it!!!

molly

 

[Freebie]

I also feed a couple handfulls of catfood now. One day it was so funny, Jack was eating out of the food dish with the cat and the cat got a little to close so Jack pecked her in the head, the next day, I threw some food out on the ground for the chickens and the cat came over and started eating the chicken food. I just about lost it. That cat was just a chowing on the chicken food with the chickens.

 

[CarriBrown]

My chickens would mob a cat for it's food. They go nuts over canned food! They aren't too keen on the dried, though.

 

[Carole AM]

Remember the movie "the BIRDS?" Thats how I feel when I get mobbed! Thank God the turkeys don't fly up to land on me!

 

[Ricochet Ranch]

I have this image at Carole's house at feeding time:

John Belushi has reincarnated as a Chantecler- TOGA PARTY!!! FOOD FIGHT!!!

Man, I love pics of your OEG Trevor-so handsome!!! Nice job Carole!
Peace, Penny

 

[Carole AM]

You shoulda seen Alex (the Chantecler) when I gave them some cauliflower! it was hilarious! he was running around the barn, trying to find a safe spot to eat it. The girls wouldn't leave him alone! It was a hoot.

pix to come...

 

[Carole AM]

I just kept snapping away! I was laughing so hard its a wonder the pics turned out!

 

[momof3]

Carole I love the pictures. Chickens do the funniest things. My cats try to get the chickens treats but the hens won't let them. I have a cat that pats the hens before he gets pecked. He does occassionally get the hen that turns around and pecks him on the head.

 

[keljonma]

Just a thought...
If your chickens are fighting over the cat food, their protein intake may be too low. Check the sodium level in the cat food. Cats require a higher level sodium than your chickens do.

The canned is usually better (although these days, how can you tell?) and it won't cause crop impaction.