Bob Blosl's Heritage Large Fowl Thread

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Kinda' random, but I felt I would get a better answer posting this question here where things are a bit more serious....

Is it true that Buckeyes hunt mice? I have seen my silver sebrights hunt mice, but my Delawares just get on a perch and stay there. lol. Those tiny sebrights do better than the cats, but I can't let them free range all the time because of their size. I'm just curious. Thinking about getting a few Muscovey's or maybe a few Buckeyes (females only) just for this reason... any opinions?

Sorry to hijack the thread a little.... feel free to PM me the answers if you like. I don't want to take 3 pages away talking about mice.
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My Dellies hunt gophers..or maybe they fight over the soft dirt and they chase squirrels. I had a dead mouse in the juvie pen pecked to death I quess they couldn't get it into pieces to munch on I saw that one running along the wall I just got a truckload of new hay so I think if the birds feel like getting them they will....my Polish were never good at getting mice but I don't think they could see as good as these.
 
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Have never seen this with our Buckeyes, but have heard many reputable breeders swear it happens. Our Chocolate Muscovies graze wih our Buckeyes with no problems.
 
Yeah, Jim... I have heard it too. Same with the Muscoveys... they say they will eat the entire mouse/rat.

My Dellies are babies. I once opened the door to let them out same as every other day. That day they didn't run out like normal... look in, there was a 8 ft snake in there! I KNOW it was 8 ft because the coop was 8 foot long and it literally was stretched along the wall the whole way plus a couple inches around the corner along the next wall. They wouldn't come down until I got it out. (No, I didn't kill it)

It's the funniest thing to see a tiny sebright attacking a mouse. They bite and scratch at it with their high pitch "eyyy eyyy eyy" like a mini karate rooster. lol. And my sebright boys are show stock... not the big hatchery stuff. little 2 inch legs... lol. funny.


Anyone have buckeye stock that does get mice?!!?!

Lotsapaints... my Dellies only chase me and grasshoppers. Never EVER be caught with a empty scoop in your hands... the mob of Dels will swarm you, and they won't be happy.
 
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Pig isn't the word for it! I love it, though. Makes them more fun.
 
I have Partridge Rocks and Hew Hampshires and Silver Penciled Rocks they are all pigs just that my rocks are pickier and will leave things for several hours before eating them all up the NH and Dels eat it gone they don't care how big their crop gets they are eating until whatever is gone.....I wish mine could free range although maybe they would burst...but come 2PM the Dels go back into the coop/pen from the run. The others have to be put back in and the partridge would just stay out and roost on anything high those things would go wild if given the chance..I find it interesting the differences
 
my black javas hunt frogs with a vengeance when they free range the marshy area by their pen, and i once witnessed them attack and kill a small wild songbird that had wandered into the bottom (fenced in) run area of their coop, where their feeder was. the other birds kind of stood there like there were confused by the whole process, but 2 BJs in particular went kind of crazy on the poor bird--nothing but fluff was left when i got up the gumption to go see the evidence! they are not normally aggressive, so this one surprised me.
 
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I have seen my Buckeye's get and eat mice. Just the other day one of my roosters came up with a baby snake while I was sitting on the deck watching them. The fight was on between them to see who got that for supper.
 
I had one roo showgirl about 4-5 months old that would take field mice away from my cats and eat them. Usually they would still be alive. He would deliver a crippling blow with his beak and the chase would be on with the rest of them. He ate them too. I thought he was going to choke to death once as he had two feet and a tail sticking out of his beak, gasping for air. He got it down. I don't have him anymore, but hope to get another gutsy chicken like him.
 
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