True Love... *cough*

[RedDrgn]

My kitties started out doing this whenever we'd let them in the room with the brooder...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/reddrgn/5923882814/in/set-72157627142653724

We figured it best they get used to their new feathered family and arranged controlled meetings (one of us would hold a cat, the other a chick or two) between them all. Cats showed no aggression, but received several nose pecks that made them wary of the beaked half-pints. Now they co-mingle just fine...the cats seem more nervous around the chicks than the other way around.

 

[gryeyes]

A good peck on the nose cured my cats from ever considering my chickens as possible eats.

Now, I am still wary when there are baby chicks in the yard, but I am nearly positive the protective mama hen would go for the eyes, not the nose, if one of my cats thought "Oh, SMALL - easy pickin's!"

 

[erinangele]

Oh that is just adorable!!!

 

[chicken farmer 1997]

my cats would lay with my chicks and chickens. they walk out the chicken coop with me. the dogs keep them in line too. all i have to say is "lets go check on the chickens."

 

[MuckyPuppy]

Very cute!

 

[Patricia Jane]

Maybe the chicks thinking, "Hmmm now how can I fit THAT in my mouth". That's sweet. Nose to nose

 

[Sinfonian]

Too cute. Mine are too old to worry about but was still curious. I found them early on sitting on a counter watching them through the brooder box.