12 week old leghorn ate a MOUSE!

[telepiste]

Hi!

My goodness me! My 12 week old leghorn just caught and ate a baby mouse! Is that normal? Is that OK? She ate a mouse!!

 

[miss_jayne]

yes. chickens are carnivores. it's their job. wait til you see them down a snake.

 

[Q9]

Chickens really are just little dinosaurs. One person on here said their chickens would attack and kill moles, too.

 

[telepiste]

YES! Go get 'em, chickens!

 

[Davaroo]

Yep, they'll do it. Frogs, snakes, lizards, small birds and anything else that cant get away is on the menu, too.

 

[Imp]

I was in Pheonix earlier this week and some of the locals were talking about the occasional problem of snakes and scorpions coming into the house. I commented that if they had chickens, the chickens would eat scorpions and small snakes. Everyone said that was not possible.

Imp- wasn't worth the effort to correct them.

 

[Davaroo]

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Its like that sometimes. You gotta step back and let them suffer, before they learn.

I'd like to see a chicken eat a scorpion, though. That would be interesting...

 

[telepiste]

having chickens is SO COOL!

 

[Imp]

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So true!, but would the mice near you agree.

Imp

 

[ShaggysGirl]

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I think I better watch the new kittens till they grow a bit lol