Anyone have luck catching a feral chicken?? UPDATE: Rooster caught, no hen

[rjohns39]

DW used to get concerned with small holes under the edge of the shelters.. My view is if its small enough to get through there, it really doesn't want to.

 

[21hens-incharge]

It is gross but mine do take a lot of pride in a good mouse catch.

The BSL are great at it.

 

[Sassysouth]

He needs to adjust his aim for the offset.

I know, right??? I don’t know how my friend does it.

 

[Redhead Rae]

Extra protein! I saw my aussie w/ what I thought was a big worm hanging out of her mouth.. nope, it was a frog. Then my daughter saw someone w a toad a few days later. Viscous carnivorous!

Totally. When I was free ranging my chickens (stopped because they pooped up the porch and took to raiding the neighbor's bird feeder) I had one rooster that liked going under the house he would come out with newts and swallow them whole. I've also seen my chickens eat mice and voles. They also try to get the barn swallows and finches that come to clean up their feed, but the little birds are too fast for them. However, there is nothing funnier then watching a chicken chase a butterfly.

 

[Sassysouth]

 

[apryl29]

Totally. When I was free ranging my chickens (stopped because they pooped up the porch and took to raiding the neighbor's bird feeder) I had one rooster that liked going under the house he would come out with newts and swallow them whole. I've also seen my chickens eat mice and voles. They also try to get the barn swallows and finches that come to clean up their feed, but the little birds are too fast for them. However, there is nothing funnier then watching a chicken chase a butterfly.

Yes! We had big mosquito looking things a few weeks ago and as the chickens walked through the grass the bugs would fly up and they'd run and more would fly and they'd be going back and forth after them. Hilarious.

 

[apryl29]

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OMG when I first saw the picture I thought your baby had died! So cute & fluffy. I miss having babies.

 

[FlyingNunFarm]

My kids love the little toads that hop into their run from the lawnmower. Poor toads think they are getting to safety. Little do they know....dun duh dun.

We once fed them a snake that accidently got hit with the mower. They played tug of war.

I love when they dust bathe! I had a bucket a dirt I was going to use for a dustbath in the coop. To keep it dry I moved it just inside the door. It kept thinking the dirt was going down but I couldn't figure out how.

 

[CSAchook]

[QUOTE=" However, there is nothing funnier then watching a chicken chase a butterfly.[/QUOTE]

So true! Although watching a Cochin run away from a hummingbird is a close second ​

 

[21hens-incharge]

I went to let my smaller group out...... Yes it lasted 5 whole minutes before the #$$%&# hawk showed up again!

Nothing more fun then trying to put 7 birds back in the run that are heading to all corners of the yard.

I got them in but WOW what a chore. There are 2 bantams and a freaking leghorn in that group.