What is the strangest thing your chickens ate? Mine just ate crawfish Monica and aligator tail

My brahmas ate about a half lb of sticky medical buds

Coldjensens said:

Eggs. If we have eggs we are not sure when they were laid, we just toss them into the run and they mob around and gobble them up shells and all. They do not seem to care if it is cooked or uncooked. This first happened when we dropped an egg when collecting. They immediately swarmed it and gobbled it all down in a matter of seconds.

Salmon Skin off the barbeque. They love it.

We once accidentally left a trash bag outside, the chickens got into it and ate anything they could get down their gullet. Kitty litter, confetti, every bit of food. One tried to eat a piece of wire, but I pulled it back out. They are kind of like goats I think.

My grandfather used to put a kernel of corn on a string and let a chicken eat it. Then he would pull it back out and the chicken woudl eat it again, over and over. I guess that was Iowa entertainment for kids in the old days.

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Hahahahahahahaha......YOU ARE HILARIOUS!!! I have always called my chickens "Velociraptors" but honestly, "goats" work even better!

Your Grandpa just wanted to go fishing, so he was fishing for chickens....."catch and release" HAHAHAHA

peep peep peep said:

Bread bag clips, Styrafoam insulation and knerf darts. :3

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LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

My chickens will kill mice but won't eat them.
This year they had a sting-bug bonanza, the newly invasive Brown Marmorated Stink Bug. I could hardly believe my chickens could choke down those caustic chemical bombs. And I was afraid their eggs would taste from them, but they didn't. The good news is that their are almost no stink bugs on my house this year. Not because the chickens caught them all, but rather I had so much fun feeding them to the chickens that I would go out several times a day to catch all the stick bugs I could.

lynnwprice said:

mine LOVE it when we trim goat hooves - they eat the trimmings.

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Definitely the weirdest one so far! Lol

I've seen one of mine eat a whole cigarette once. Filter and all.

they've eaten stink bugs, gross! . and spaghetti and tried to eat a carrot out of my hand of all things, lol

O.P. great idea for a topic! This has been such an entertaining read!

I have one;

My husband had to skin a bear recently on the ground with 41 chickens climbing on it and zipping in and out tearing chunks of fat and meat off of it. He was skinning it on the ground because he had to do a careful job not to cut the hide. He is going to make a bear skin rug out of it. It was quite the challenge to not cut the hide or accidentally cut a chicken!

Those chickens feasted on that bear! When I butchered it, there were chunks of flesh missing from one of the hind quarters! I had to trim it down for cleanliness and those raptors won bear meat a second time!

We wish we would have had a large enough table to have skinned it on, but I have a feeling the chickens would have just hopped up on it anyway!

One good thing about it though, the chickens cleaned up everything leaving nothing to attract the coyotes, fox, and cougars that reside nearby. They even ate the blades of grass that had blood on them!!

P.S. I rendered the large amount of fat that was on the bear and canned it, but the rest of the rendered fat goes to the chickens. I mix a small amount with their mash everyday and they LOVE it!

Waste not want not

Salmon, wild rice, cashews, yogurt, vinaigrette salad dressing, garlic bread, ice cream, pumpkin pie, apple pie, pizza, cheese, oatmeal, citrus fruits, cereal, eggs, bacon - just about everything we eat!

minnehaha said:

P.S.  I rendered the large amount of fat that was on the bear and canned it, but the rest of it goes to the chickens.  I mix a small amount with their mash everyday and they LOVE it!  

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Ive heard fat makes a chicken not lay as good.
Anyway, a guy a work rendered some bear fat and said it made excelent
pie crust, have you tried it? My father used it years ago to water proof his boots.