Neighbor's cat getting into chickens! Help!!

[Rebecca 777]

Hey Guys,
Okay so I am having trouble with a domesticated cat getting into the chickens. We were going to solve the problem by well ending his/her life until we found she belonged to a neighbor, I have not had chickens until the beginning of this summer and have no idea what else to do. I wondered if anyone has had the same how they fixed it or if anyone has any ideas. They are free range chickens because it just breaks my heart to see them cages up. We have seen it every day since last month but we have chased it away from our yard just about every time. Help!!!! I also have an abused white silkies (because we had mean roosters) and I don't think that she has enough feathers for body heat to get her through the winter because every morning we let her out of their coop and she is shaking. I was thinking about making chickens saddles to help but don't know if that would help her at all! Thank you!

My daughter is having same issues with a feral cat, decapitated the chickens their free range also and had to pen them up,was looking for solutions due to law you can't trap the cats and if take to humane society they release back into where they got them. But you can shoot them to protect your livestock which doesn't make sense. Did you find a answer

 

[All Ball]

My daughter is having same issues with a feral cat, decapitated the chickens their free range also and had to pen them up,was looking for solutions due to law you can't trap the cats and if take to humane society they release back into where they got them. But you can shoot them to protect your livestock which doesn't make sense. Did you find a answer

Can I ask, did the cat eat at all or just decapitate? A predator just took out my 2 hens this a.m. and I am trying to figure out what it was. I found them decapitated but not eaten (a flock of crows may have harassed the predator away), and yesterday afternoon the girls were making land predator alarms and at that time I saw a feral cat leave the yard just at the spot where the kill happened this morning...it was an animal that had the ability to sneak up on them both quietly, then drag the bodies under a fence, but it wasn't hungry enough to eat or take any food with it, which would be weird for a wild animal like a fox that would be hungry. Just trying to learn about other situations since most cats won't kill chickens. Thanks in advance for any other details you can provide!

 

[McChooky]

Can I ask, did the cat eat at all or just decapitate? A predator just took out my 2 hens this a.m. and I am trying to figure out what it was. I found them decapitated but not eaten (a flock of crows may have harassed the predator away), and yesterday afternoon the girls were making land predator alarms and at that time I saw a feral cat leave the yard just at the spot where the kill happened this morning...it was an animal that had the ability to sneak up on them both quietly, then drag the bodies under a fence, but it wasn't hungry enough to eat or take any food with it, which would be weird for a wild animal like a fox that would be hungry. Just trying to learn about other situations since most cats won't kill chickens. Thanks in advance for any other details you can provide!

We have stray cats that come around all the time in search of food or mice but they've never attacked the chickens. I trained both of my dogs to protect my chickens and keep predators run off

 

[McChooky]

The day I lost 2 chickens people told me it couldn't have been the crows I saw out near the chicken run but thats not true.Crows do eat other birds smaller than them. EDIT: I never figured out what got the two I lost. Could have been young ravens instead of crows.
I haven't lost anymore

 

[All Ball]

We have stray cats that come around all the time in search of food or mice but they've never attacked the chickens. I trained both of my dogs to protect my chickens and keep predators run off

I just saw this morning that it was a grey fox (they have daily rounds and it showed up same time as the chickens get out of the coop). They don't typically take out chickens. This one didn't even eat anything and let the crows, who gang up to harass predators eating birds, scare it away from the carcasses. What a waste.

 

[Ecarroll]

My daughter is having same issues with a feral cat, decapitated the chickens their free range also and had to pen them up,was looking for solutions due to law you can't trap the cats and if take to humane society they release back into where they got them. But you can shoot them to protect your livestock which doesn't make sense. Did you find a answer

If it’s stray catch/trap it and bring it to a shelter

 

[McChooky]

Our cats have lived their entire life indoors to protect them. Many are killed by predators unlike dogs.The exception being small dogs.
I don't let my cats roam the neighborhood or become a nuisance to others.

 

[Qwerty3159]

Our cats have lived their entire life indoors to protect them. Many are killed by predators unlike dogs.The exception being small dogs.
I don't let my cats roam the neighborhood or become a nuisance to others.

I wish more folks had this sentiment!