Something you saw a chicken do that made you stop and say, WHAT The Hell?

[NagemTX]

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This gives me roost ideas!

 

[NagemTX]

So I don't have a story about a chicken wth but a cat wth. I have an out door cat named Midge. She came to us as a kitten(dropped off in the neighborhood)when I got my first order of chicks. At the time all my cats where outside kitties but where kept in a fenced in yard. Another kitty I have named Isabelly along with Midge stayed out at the coop/pen all night every night. Isabelly still hangs out with them but not like Midge does. She acts like a LGD with my chickens. I caught her one night when I was putting up the chickens hanging out on the roost with them. She lays in the yard near the flock and if a bird or squirrel gets to close she takes them out. I was moving a young cockerel one night and he would not stop screaming his head off and Midge came running from the back neighbors yard (they have chickens and ducks she hangs out with too)meowing worriedly and making sure I wasn't killing her chickens. She even tried to have her kittens in the coop with them.

 

[Chicken_tiger_catt]

So I don't have a story about a chicken wth but a cat wth. I have an out door cat named Midge. She came to us as a kitten(dropped off in the neighborhood)when I got my first order of chicks. At the time all my cats where outside kitties but where kept in a fenced in yard. Another kitty I have named Isabelly along with Midge stayed out at the coop/pen all night every night. Isabelly still hangs out with them but not like Midge does. She acts like a LGD with my chickens. I caught her one night when I was putting up the chickens hanging out on the roost with them. She lays in the yard near the flock and if a bird or squirrel gets to close she takes them out. I was moving a young cockerel one night and he would not stop screaming his head off and Midge came running from the back neighbors yard (they have chickens and ducks she hangs out with too)meowing worriedly and making sure I wasn't killing her chickens. She even tried to have her kittens in the coop with them.

lucky! my boy Tom can't be with the birds until they're at least half sized. well I guess he could.............. he would eat them tho. he's a good cat, just can't tell a hatchling from a sparrow, or a sparrow from an order of Mcnuggets.

 

[NagemTX]

lucky! my boy Tom can't be with the birds until they're at least half sized. well I guess he could.............. he would eat them tho. he's a good cat, just can't tell a hatchling from a sparrow, or a sparrow from an order of Mcnuggets.

Most cats are like that. She is just different as are some of the others I have. I do have one that would absolutely eat the chicks. I brood in the house for the first two weeks to keep an eye on chicks in case of complications and I leave the mesh lid off most the time for easy access. Every cat I have inside have spent time in the brooder laying on top of the brood plate with the chicks. The one that I think would eat them or play way to rough with them face plants the side of the clear brooder box and then bats at the chicks from there. I've had the others growl warnings at her if she tries to get in it.

*Not to worry any one with the open brooder. Its in the office with me and the incubators and I'm in the office almost all the time. If I leave it the top goes back on.