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LostInAppalachia
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- May 17, 2022
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I’m so sorry about your babies!! I’m grateful that so far our livestock guardians in the pasture have kept the coyotes at bay. I think trying wet food is an excellent idea. They will probably eat it faster. I can’t stand the cats near the house anymore so they have been kicked out to the barn. The chickens come out of the coop from the corid treatment today. Wish me luck!Just feed your cats only what they can eat at one sitting and when the chickens aren't around. Feeding them in the chicken space isn't working so you can just feed outside somewhere the chickens don't expect it to be, and if they never get a meal they won't come to that spot looking.
We fed our barn cats on the back porch and picked up the bowls when they were done. They learned there were two times a day to get fed and they showed up promptly for it. But we also fed wet food because it's better for the health of cats.
After 6 years of doing well here, both of our beautiful boys disappeared within a month of each other last fall. We were so sad, it must have been a predator as we are surrounded with farms and woods, not roads.