Stray Cat Wants to Move Into Henhouse

[Barry Natchitoches]

Well, I built the cat her own little straw bale home, and put her food and water right there near it. Then I deliberately fed her right there at the opening to her little home.


She went into it at sundown, but an hour later when I went outside to check on things, she wasn't anywhere to be found.


I guess she wasn't ready to go to sleep yet. Cats are not as easy to get to sleep through the night as chickens are.


I hope she finds her way back to her little home when she is ready to go to sleep.

 

[Barry Natchitoches]

Quote:
What we feed the chickens and the cats is RAW MILK.


Raw Milk gets bad press mainly because big agri-industrial dairies cannot get into the business (you just cannot produce huge quantities of raw milk, its logistically impossible), and they don't want people to find out how much better the raw product is because they cannot get into the raw milk market.


But raw milk is what our grandparents, and great grandparents, and great great grandparents drank. And back then, you almost never ran into anybody who was "lactose intolerant."


My wife is "lactose intolerant."


Well, she is -- UNLESS she drinks raw milk!


Most people who are "lactose intolerant" actually find that they CAN drink RAW milk. My wife is one of them, which is one reason why we go out of our way to get raw milk now that there is a legal way to do that in the state of Tennessee.


Here's what one website says concerning "lactose intolerance" and raw milk:


"Lactose, or milk sugar, is the primary carbohydrate in cow's milk. Made from one molecule each of the simple sugars glucose and galactose, it's known as a disaccharide. People with lactose intolerance for one reason or another (age, genetics, etc.), no longer make the enzyme lactase and so can't digest milk sugar (20). This leads to some unsavory symptoms, which, needless to say, the victims find rather unpleasant at best. Raw milk, with its lactose-digesting Lactobacilli bacteria intact, may allow people who traditionally have avoided milk to give it another try.

The end-result of lactose digestion is a substance called lactic acid (responsible for the sour taste in fermented dairy products). Besides having known inhibitory effects on harmful species of bacteria (21), lactic acid boosts the absorption of calcium, phosphorus and iron, and has been shown to make milk proteins more digestible by knocking them out of solution as fine curd particles (22)(23). "


http://www.raw-milk-facts.com/raw_milk_health_benefits.html



My chickens LOVE raw milk! They run from where ever they are at so that they can have first access to one of the bowls when I come out with the bottle of raw milk. Unless I pour a huge amount out for them, they will not stop until all the milk is drank.


My Maine Coon cat -- who is an indoor/outdoor cat -- drinks raw milk without any diarrhea or other problems. I've never tried to give my Maine Coon regular pasturized milk, but the raw milk works fine with her digestive system.


This new cat seemed to enjoy the raw milk too. I haven't seen any signs of lactose intolerance in her since she drank it, though she tends to "do her thing alot" and I don't have a whole lot of contact with her.


But like I said, my wife never thought she could enjoy a dairy product because her lactose intolerance was so bad. Until she discovered raw milk, that is.

 

[jjthink]

Barry - thanks for that info. Very interesting!
JJ

 

[Mattemma]

When I was trying to catch a stray/feral cat I put a big box in blankets/plastic.I added blankets,food,and catnip inside the box. I kept it that way for a while then one day I replaced the box with a havahart trap all wrapped up just like the box. Caught the cat the same day. He tore me and my bathroon up when I tried to move him into a carrier,lol. At the vets they doped him up,did all their stuff and then I spent 6 months taming him. He was a good cat.

 

[donrae]

Barry, nice raw milk plug

Always nice to see someone educating others. I'm not sure on your state laws, but I see you ARE using it for pet food.............eventually

 

[farmerlor]

My feral cats live in the hen house and with the chickens and we have no problems. They're afraid of the hens and will back down if it comes down to a fight over some of the leftovers I give to the chickens. They even seem to fear the baby chicks and to my knowledge we haven't lost one baby to these feral cats. We DID get the cats spayed and shots and we do feed them some cat food (which the turkeys and chickens end up eating most of the time) and they are invaluable for keeping the mice out of my expensive bird food. Can I just say that I love my feral cats who live with my chickens?

 

[abhaya]

i had a stray show up had a liiter of kittens after about 2 months it started killing my chikens so be carfull

 

[Barry Natchitoches]

I'm pretty worried about my little kitten friend tonight.


It's going down into the 20's tonight, and she didn't show up at all this afternoon or evening. Right now, her food is uneaten, and her little cave is empty.


I don't know where she is, and yeah, I'm worried about her...

 

[jjthink]

Me too

I hope she turns up okay

Sending hopes and wishes...
JJ

 

[Barry Natchitoches]

Well, my wife just fed her.


I don't know where she was last night, but she came back here for a nice bowl of cat chow this afternoon.