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[RBahmer]

I went out to do my chickens and discovered that one of my husbands barn cats got in their pen. It was just sitting there looking like it was trying to figure out how to get back out. Now, needless to say, I can not touch these cats. My hubby pets every single one of them but they won't let me touch them (I think they sense that I don't like cats). So stupid me decides I am going to help this cat make it's way back out. I went to grab the cat by the nap of it's neck, I knew better than to try to just pick it up, and it started climbing my fence hissing at me. So I decided, and not the best decision I must say, to grab it by it's tail and try to walk it over to the door. Well, it was growling and hissing at me but it was going toward the door. That is, UNTIL some of my chickens decided to help me !! They came running and just started pecking the crap out of that cat. Cat jumped, grabbed onto my pant leg, growled, scratched my leg, and I let go. Cat climbed the fence again, and I decided it was in my best interest not to try to catch it again, so I just opened the door and went toward the cat and it couldn't get out of that pen fast enough. Felt sorry for the poor thing.

 

[RBahmer]

Leslie! Glad you're not a stalker any more.
Mom, those chicks are adorable. Even Beeper. When I was a kid in Chicago, I found a silkie in the street. Where it came from, who knows! No farms around us and not many chickens in the city. Any who, I bought that lil chick home and named her Beep-Beep. She was a house chicken. Let her go out during the day, and she came in. Had no nest for her, she laid her egg on the basement couch. Every morning, she'd hop up those stairs and share her day with us. Pretty funny, since my parents refused to let any cat or dog into our house.

That is a cool story. Glad you could save the Silkie.

 

[sj3364]

I went out to do my chickens and discovered that one of my husbands barn cats got in their pen. It was just sitting there looking like it was trying to figure out how to get back out. Now, needless to say, I can not touch these cats. My hubby pets every single one of them but they won't let me touch them (I think they sense that I don't like cats). So stupid me decides I am going to help this cat make it's way back out. I went to grab the cat by the nap of it's neck, I knew better than to try to just pick it up, and it started climbing my fence hissing at me. So I decided, and not the best decision I must say, to grab it by it's tail and try to walk it over to the door. Well, it was growling and hissing at me but it was going toward the door. That is, UNTIL some of my chickens decided to help me !! They came running and just started pecking the crap out of that cat. Cat jumped, grabbed onto my pant leg, growled, scratched my leg, and I let go. Cat climbed the fence again, and I decided it was in my best interest not to try to catch it again, so I just opened the door and went toward the cat and it couldn't get out of that pen fast enough. Felt sorry for the poor thing.

Lol! I can see why the cats don't let you touch them! One day my indoor kitty, who thinks she's an outdoor kitty, escaped out the backdoor and made a beeline to the chicken run. The run door was open and the girls happen to be in there eating. Kitty ran into the run, the girls freaked out and started flapping and squawking. Well, kitty turned right around and bolted right back to the door. I no longer worry about the kitty bothering the chickens.

 

[M.sue]

RBahmer......your morning in the coop was A LOT more exciting than mine. I only had a sparing match and chickens scurring everyone. Thank God I didn't have anything hissing and growling! Hope your weren't injured when the cat clung to your leg.....claws hurt!!

Hmmmm... A silkie out of no where. I'd be puzzled! lol

 

[RBahmer]

Lol! I can see why the cats don't let you touch them! One day my indoor kitty, who thinks she's an outdoor kitty, escaped out the backdoor and made a beeline to the chicken run. The run door was open and the girls happen to be in there eating. Kitty ran into the run, the girls freaked out and started flapping and squawking. Well, kitty turned right around and bolted right back to the door. I no longer worry about the kitty bothering the chickens.

Well if the dumb thing would have let me touch it I could have carried it out LOL. But ohhh no. Had to do it the hard way.

 

[RBahmer]

RBahmer......your morning in the coop was A LOT more exciting than mine. I only had a sparing match and chickens scurring everyone. Thank God I didn't have anything hissing and growling! Hope your weren't injured when the cat clung to your leg.....claws hurt!!

Hmmmm... A silkie out of no where. I'd be puzzled! lol

No not hurt. Just puzzled how it got in there.

 

[fuzzybutt love]

and I cant leave out Beeper Mutant for comparison.
Be nice.

I like all the scrigglies sticking out... Just for curiosity's sake, how many weeks is it now? I am still wondering about the sexing by wing feathers thing......

 

[Farmerboy16]

I went out to do my chickens and discovered that one of my husbands barn cats got in their pen. It was just sitting there looking like it was trying to figure out how to get back out. Now, needless to say, I can not touch these cats. My hubby pets every single one of them but they won't let me touch them (I think they sense that I don't like cats). So stupid me decides I am going to help this cat make it's way back out. I went to grab the cat by the nap of it's neck, I knew better than to try to just pick it up, and it started climbing my fence hissing at me. So I decided, and not the best decision I must say, to grab it by it's tail and try to walk it over to the door. Well, it was growling and hissing at me but it was going toward the door. That is, UNTIL some of my chickens decided to help me !! They came running and just started pecking the crap out of that cat. Cat jumped, grabbed onto my pant leg, growled, scratched my leg, and I let go. Cat climbed the fence again, and I decided it was in my best interest not to try to catch it again, so I just opened the door and went toward the cat and it couldn't get out of that pen fast enough. Felt sorry for the poor thing.

That is very funny. We have one cat who is indoor/outdoor cat, and he is afraid of baby chicks ever since a broody hen got after him 5 years ago. lol I just can't believe that we have lost 50 percent of snow overnight !! And its raining right now. Its 45 degrees out, and yesterday it was 25 degrees.

 

[chickflick]

The poor cat!! Funny, at times it seems that the animals migrate to the people that don't like them. Seems like they're trying to get you to change your mind. Don't know what vibes you're putting out to that poor cat.

That chicken pic is adorable!!
That silkie was so much fun. It would sit on our laps all the time. I don't even know what we fed her, cuz there were no farm stores around. Do remember a UFO that landed in the cemetary by our house, maybe that's where it came from!!

 

[fuzzybutt love]

A while back, (who knows how many pages) when we were talking vaccines, someone put a link to the chicken doctor vet supply or something like that. It was a great sight and I wanted to get the cocci vaccine but now I can't find the page. I thought I had it book marked so I didn't write it down. If anyone has it or remembers let me know.

Originally Posted by fuzzybutt love
I haven't done it yet, but here's some sites that have good selection: Jeffers livestock, (cheap wormers) first state veterinary supply (bigger selection of vaccinations), smith poultry (poultrysupplies.com, cheap antibiotics) thomas labs (fish antibiotics), and
qc supply.com carries a med called denaguard, marketed for swine in the ad but if you google denaguard's home page they use it for poultry in the uk with zero egg withdrawal. it's pricy at $50 after shipping but is one of the best for CRD. Do your research before going for the big guns, as only certain antibiotics work for certain illnesses, and the wrong one could actually make it worse! Most of the ones that work are "off lable". I just get the usual ones at Tractor Supply and my local feed mill.


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