How to make a yard/barn cat "chicken safe"?

Pirate · Dec 6, 2011

We had two Peahens come in off a storm front one time. Not sure where they came from, but they left big tarry type turds all over the porches and garage floors. My sons cat jumped from the porch on to the back of one of those Peahens. It was like some form of Roman spectacle you would have seen at the Coliseum - Cat vs. Peahen. Well, the cat didn't stay on the Peahen long. He is a fat lazy cat anyway. My other two cats I rescued are my mousers and do a mighty fine job.

seymojo536 · Dec 7, 2011

Not nearly evil enough.

Get yourself an Old English bantam, pound for pound they have attitude!

Or a couple of geese, they will put the fear in a cat.

MossflowerWoods · Dec 7, 2011

seymojo536 said:
Not nearly evil enough.

Get yourself an Old English bantam, pound for pound they have attitude!

Or a couple of geese, they will put the fear in a cat.

I don't want to beat up the cat. I really do not want a cat at all!

But I hate the mice!

The birds are here to stay, so I need a cat who can leave them alone, cause if he messes up one on the birds, he's gonna eat a shotgun pellet.

Last thing I need, with a 2 year old in the yard, is a mean rooster.

Sorry, but that is not what I'm looking for sir.
David

toppop52 · Dec 7, 2011

Just get an older female from the pound or someone you know, they're calm, smart and natural hunters.

blueriver · Dec 7, 2011

MossflowerWoods said:
I don't want to beat up the cat. I really do not want a cat at all!

But I hate the mice!

The birds are here to stay, so I need a cat who can leave them alone, cause if he messes up one on the birds, he's gonna eat a shotgun pellet.

Last thing I need, with a 2 year old in the yard, is a mean rooster.

Sorry, but that is not what I'm looking for sir.
David

The cats always seem to nail a bird once in a while ... I have real good luck with bait in strategically placed area's

Soundguy · Dec 7, 2011

get a kitten and raise it around the birds.

I have barn cats like this.

I have a few free-ish range chickens that no longer hang out at the coop area but rather have nested up right next to the barn.

not uncommon to see one of the barn cats stretched out on the stoop by the door of the barn, sunning, while 2' away a mother hen scratches around while a handfull of cotton balls run around after her.. absolutely no interest to the cat.

Now.. have a mouse shoot across, and the cat becomes the terminator..

our outside dogs ar ethe same way.

they utterly ignore ( and stay out of the way ) of the livestock.

soundguy

MossflowerWoods said:
OK.

I got a mouse nest in my tractor.

I am @#$%^& off!

I do not like cats, but I REALLY do not like the damage the mouse did.

I have almost 50 ducks, guineas and chickens, and I they are here to stay. The cat will NEVER be allowed in the house.

I need it to be a hunter, so I don't want to over feed it, but I NEED it to leave the birds alone.

Is there a way?

Thanks in advance,
David

CTPhil · Dec 7, 2011

Millions the world over have cats and chickens living in the same environment, there's really no need to overthink this IMO.

Stopher · Dec 7, 2011

blueriver said:
Well Mr. DavidBillyBojack ... I have no problem with the cats bothering the chickens. My problem is they always follow me to the house and end up just sleeping on the porch and then the Mrs. starts feeding them and back to the same old problem ... soooo I just end up putting out bait around the barn for those pesking wiring eating little varmits.

In respect to the birds ... the cat just aint gonna leave them alone. I hate it when I find the darn cat showing me his bird kill and a mouse is tip toeing past him.

Some folks say mothballs ... no matter how hard I try I can not successfully seem to find the balls on a moth????

Good Day.

Haha. Mothballs do work. I had a problem with them nesting under the seat of my four wheeler. I took mothballs and put drops of silicon to stick them in different places on my bike and the problem stopped. However, they do dissolve with time and while they are there, they STINK, but work!