Intruder

[STACEYH]

I have an intruder in my coop and run. She is fast and sly. She hides in my flock. When I try to seperate my hens and coop them she runs into the coop. When I let the ladies go into the run she gets in the middle of them and sleeks out into the run. I have place traps. I have tried seperating them. I have tried feeding her away from my ladies but she stays tight within the flock. When the chickens move she moves with them. I'm to slow it seems. I can't seem to remove her. I know how she got in and will fix it once she is gone. She is bold enough to eat with my ladies. Taking suggestions. She is wild nothing tame about her.

 

[NorthwoodsChick]

Update Intruder still intruding. Three neighbors came over and tried helping me. Picture 4 grown adults trying to catch a small kitten. It was funny. Kitten wins I now Take kitchen scraps to the ladies every morning and a can of tuna to the intruder.

Face it, you now have a resident cat...that thinks she's a chicken.

 

[STACEYH]

After five days of trying everything I could think of and finally asking everyone here, she exited on her own. LOL I put a nice can of tuna out and mended the very small hole.

 

[McChooky]

This one was tamed by playing hide and seek with him. Curiosity got the best of him so now we are best pals!

 

[STACEYH]

Face it, you now have a resident cat...that thinks she's a chicken.

She eats with them, comes when I call them, and rubs her body on them while purring so loud my old ears hear her. I have seen her cuddling when the ladies go in the nesting box.

 

[BlindLemonChicken]

I would keep that cat. She will probably be happy with kibble occasionally and to kill mice and rats in and around your coop. Kibble is cheap. If she's going to hang out anyway put her to work. I used to get feral cats from a spay & neuter program for free just to keep rodents in check around my coop. I gave them kibble every other day and they left me little rodent corpses as presents. It was a symbiotic relationship. Now we have a garage cat but she was not feral-she's pretty friendly but she keeps the rodents down on our property and in our neighbors' garden. Love me a good hunter!

 

[BigBlueHen53]

That can of tuna is your best friend. You might also start buying real cat food so it gets proper nutrition. It will take time but soon Kitty will come when you call to be fed and before you know it, you will be best friends and you can take it to the vet. In fact, you might put the cat food inside a cat crate so it can get comfortable going inside it - don't close it yet though, just let it eat there. Then one day you can close the door and off you go to the vet.

 

[Aunt Angus]

Shoot, I've been thinking about picking up some barn cats to deal with rats. Why didn't this one invade my coop? Lol

Maybe it's a blessing in disguise? If she's raised with them, maybe she won't think of them as food???

 

[STACEYH]

Update Intruder still intruding. Three neighbors came over and tried helping me. Picture 4 grown adults trying to catch a small kitten. It was funny. Kitten wins I now Take kitchen scraps to the ladies every morning and a can of tuna to the intruder.

 

[Aunt Angus]

Here's the feral kitten who was able to be reformed:

He's seriously the weirdest cat I've ever met.