My chicken ate a mouse..

[maribameche]

Have anyone ever seen a chicken try to eat a mouse? Is it even healthy for them? Lol she swallowed it whole!!

 

[SeaPolka]

Have anyone ever seen a chicken try to eat a mouse? Is it even healthy for them? Lol she swallowed it whole!!

Mine do all the time, it's normal. As long as there's no poison down they're fine

 

[sourland]

Yep, and they also eat baby birds, lizards, salamanders, small snakes, and the list goes on and on.

 

[maribameche]

I was so sad because I love mice lol but we have been having a mouse problem from the chicken food and I guess the chickens are better mouse catchers than my cats lmao

 

[RonP]

Have anyone ever seen a chicken try to eat a mouse? Is it even healthy for them? Lol she swallowed it whole!!

One thing I enjoy most with my flock is watching them try to eat anything and everything that won't try to eat them first...

This includes the constant harassment and nose pecking of my inquisitive 60 pound dog...

 

[deepbluesea]

Mine did this the first week in their new coop! And yesterday, while I was waiting to shut them in for the evening, my head BR slurped up a baby rat snake like it was a big piece of spaghetti!

 

[chickengeorgeto]

Snakes give eggs a real Continental flavor. They are healthier for your flock than Meal Worms, a.k.a. Darkling Beetle larva. In the frying pan live snakes also give your eggs a real BITE.

 

[Frazzemrat1]

I keep waiting for mine to figure out they can eat what they kill. I keep finding dead voles in the run... then again, I haven't found a body in a while... They must have killed them all, or figured out how to eat them.

BTW, can the larger large-breed chickens eat chipmunks? When I throw down scratch, I have a couple of chipmunks that used to come feed with the chickens when they were little. They drive the rodents off now, and have given them some good pecks. I've also seen the munks in my chicken feeder. If one of my girls got one and killed it, is it too big to eat?

 

[21hens-incharge]

Mine ate a squirrel. In their defense it was developing a habit of stealing eggs.

I found bits of it in the run.

Mine get mice too. It starts a grand chase around the yard.
If the others cannot catch her I am not even going to try.

 

[N F C]

My FL flock used to snatch up all the lizards, frogs and toads they could catch. Not only were they fun to play keep-away with, they must have been tasty as none were ever wasted.