The issue being cheap/free and readily available spaying and neutering.
Sounds good on paper, but it’s very very very rare, at least in my area.
Even the cheapest I could get for the dump-ees at my place was around $75 apiece, and that was at HALF PRICE with a coupon from PAWS. And still, I was only able to get a few of mine done at a time. So I had a new batch of kittens before I got the last female from the first batch spayed.
The vets insist on about a half dozen shots at $10 each, plus this fee and that fee, and suddenly a spay is over $150. And don’t get me started about what they want for a rabbit!!
Yes, I have a small herd of outdoor ‘barn’ cats with one who has decided he prefers my house to the storage building. Yes, I got all of mine fixed finally after a year of literally trapping cats and praying for no more kittens.
And yes, they are intimidated by the chickens.
But until a better, quicker and more logical solution comes along (like a spay/neuter pill that can be handed out FREE!!!!).
Lots of these poor folks are gonna be caught with a herd of cats that just started with one abandoned Mama.
The actual operation should not cost that much.
I took my stray cat to a vet that was doing the operation at cost and it was very inexpensive by comparsion to the normal rates.
The task seems daunting, and hopefully, something more simple and inexpensive will be developed.