The Necessity Of Barn Cats For Your Chickens!

Barn Cats are a necessity to have around your Chickens! If you are raising some backyard chickens, you definitely have a mouse problem, this is why we have the cats in the first place. The cats will keep the mice under control when the chickens aren't looking.

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[willman]

We live in a city that has a rat problem. Our neighborhood has a lot of outside cats. All have some kind of home. We don't have a rat problem here. My cat is a beast.

[fernquiroz]

Fact if you pour hot boiled water down those holes your farm animals will soon have a nice warm meal approach them quite rapidly.

[damdamdiram]

sorry to ask as i’m uneducated on this, but is there ever a chance that the cats may attack the chickens? i’m guessing “no” otherwise you obviously wouldn’t keep them together lol but i’d love to know more!!

[viduraherath]

For the mice, the chickens are probably like t-rex

[BooBuKittyPhuk]

I think it was pretty self explanatory 😂

[Eightsixfive-wz]

We used to use this technique but one day one of our cats ate a dead raw chicken and this is where the problem started this cat started eating live chicken after a few months

[mr.makeitrain.]

Are the cats also a threat to chicks ???

[Akikosky]

Apparently if you feed your chickens eggs to cats they become hypoallergenic. Don’t know if it works for dogs too though.

[Megjaytaj]

Rats - hanging around the barn
Cats - its for real estate

[philliplopez]

We should worship them for we owe them our domestication .

[nointimidation]

I think it's disgusting that the chicken eats the mice. I wouldn't eat those chicken afterwards

[Specogecko]

Problem is your feeding the mice chicken food lol.

[chevyjt]

Or don't, especially if you're not a child.

[Teddyschickenfarm]

I would not feed chicken rats because the rat body can get in there eggs

[zachalexander]

Why are you always wasting food 😩? Don’t tell me you had a week-old watermelon just lying around either, I could eat a whole watermelon in a day on my own.

In any case, rats and mice suck I agree. All of my chickens got picked off by hawks, so I’ve resorted to digging snake burrows and keeping opossums in the brush near the fields.