Unsecure chicken perches

[Millie-Annie]

We have a new cat in the neighbourhood, a large ginger thing. I have just spotted in in the back part of the chicken run. Luckily the girls were round the front. Not sure what to do? When my cats got in there, the original three hens attacked en masse and the cats were terrified, but I don't know what this lot would do. I think Talullah (White Star) would just be a total head case and run in circles panicking, great fun for a cat.

 

How worried should I be?

[lindafw]

stand by with the super soaker...drench the cat...he (and as a ginger its most likely to be a he) won't be back quickly!! May take more than one dousing tho

[chicken bark]

I think the cat would come off worse for wear if the girls acted together but the cat may manage to damage one if it got isolated.

 

Can you put some string across the top of the run for the time being - it may be enough to put the cat off. Or get the water pistol out of course.

 

oops bit of a cross post.

[Millie-Annie]

We have a large apple tree so at this moment in time we resort to chucking apples at it. Not near enough to hurt it but to make it run. Can be done from a distance, the super soaker needs us to get near and it runs.

[Spotlandman]

Have water bombs ready by the door and throw then to land very close result one wet cat who will soon get the idea. Should be able to buy them from a toy shop

[Sam]

(and as a ginger its most likely to be a he)

 

Whys that? I know nothing about cats

[Millie-Annie]

I have heard that too, gingers are usually male, although not always, but tortoiseshells are always female

[sadietoo]

I have heard that too, gingers are usually male, although not always, but tortoiseshells are always female

Sorry to disappoint, but whilst often gingers are males...we had a lovely ginger female cat called Kerry many moons ago..we used to call her the mechanic, because the only marking she had that wasn't ginger was a tiny bit of tabby on one paw that looked like she had been tinkering with a car.....

[Millie-Annie]

That was why I said not always, as my dad had a ginger female called Bonnie.

 

You would probably find her tabby paw would be enough to make her genes tortoiseshell though so female