What pulls a chicken through a cage????

[jbieware]

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Fruit bats and bats that prey on cows? Are you guys having trouble with lemurs and capybaras, too?

HAHAHAHA...no, but I wouldn't be surprised by the crazy things I've been coming across lately.

 

[shay20]

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Uh, bats do NOT 'prey on cows', unless you live in South or Central America in which case there are some areas that have vampire bats which yes will go after cows (they do not kill them, not individually anyhow, and I am not sure 'prey on' is really the right term - would you say a mosquito 'preys on' you?)

Vampire bats are only one (1) kind of bat though.

All the others have not the FAINTEST interest in cows, I assure you (nor chickens nor people).

Pat

I know they dont here, i read up on them. but they still creep me out, I know they eat a lot of flying bugs im gratefull for that, but stll they creep me out. In PR. my husband got one stuck in his hair. That helps creep me out. Yes I think mosquito prey on me.

 

[shay20]

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im very sesitive on my chicks ,i actully had them in my bedroom untill they were 3 months old, and still covered them at night becouse of me cats thinking there toys.

 

[jbieware]

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im very sesitive on my chicks ,i actully had them in my bedroom untill they were 3 months old, and still covered them at night becouse of me cats thinking there toys.

I am too. It just made me sick this morning! This one was my little girls favorite so she went to school crying! I wish I could still have them in my house.....but hubby would ring my neck. They can be a bit noisy but I'd rather deal with noise than losing another one. I guess I'll wait up tonight and cover the cage with cloth. A heavy duty coop is next project in line...sigh

 

[RASTACHICKI]

Raccoon in my opinion.

 

[shay20]

If u bring them in will actually stay quiet if they are covered. when u uncover them well that's another story, I feel so bad for daughter, I hope she will be OK, it hurts when one looses a family member, I CONSIDER MY PETS MY FAMLY.

 

[werblessd1s]

I had a similar situation happen when I was a teenager. I had two baby ducks I was raising. I had them separate from the other ducks and the chickens. They were in the middle of them in a small pen. I went out the next morning to give them some lovin' and was horrified. My favorite one was pulled half way through the fence dead. It was awful.

 

[JennsPeeps]

I concur that it was a raccoon that pulled your chick through the wire.

Bats are beneficial mammals and should be encouraged, especially by bird flock owners - bats east mosiquitoes, which are carriers of avian diseases. I once found a bat in my bedroom and it was so cool to see it up close. Poor thing was scared out of its wee little gourd.