We don't actually own a cat, but we have many stray ones in the neighbourhood that we could probably get into the aviary, but if you wouldn't trust your cat around bantams, I definitely wouldn't trust a stray one.
Any other ideas for dealing with the rats?
I haven't had any problems with chicks, as I raise mine in the summer and by now they are all large, and in the summer the rat population seems to move elsewhere.
My flock is mostly bantams though, including 2 Seramas, would they be in danger from a cat?
But it would need to be within the aviary with the birds, what I'm worried abut is that it would harm the birds whether or not it exterminated the rats.
Hi,
So I have a rat problem.
Last year during the winter we had a rat problem too, about 40 or 50 of them, they were all living inside my aviary. We trapped many, and managed to poison others, but in the end had to resort to transferring all the birds to another aviary to remove all feed from...
Well I saw another thread that talked about lancing etc., but I was unsure because her swelling is so large.
I am not sure what her eating habits are currently, as I have been away for most of the day the last few days, but her feeder has not gone down much, if any in the last 2 days.
Thanks, I have not noticed any signs of a respiratory infection, she has not coughed or wheezed etc...
I don't know if she was pecked originally, but as I said, a few days ago she must have been pecked because she had blood on her, and it has gotten a little bit larger since then.
I haven't...
So, I was away for a week and my friend was taking care of my chickens; which he is very good at, but was not able to spend a lot of time checking that the chickens were healthy. When I came back, I found that one of my Silkie hens, Junty, had a large swelling over one eye, but she could still...