Can a chicken eat a black widow spider?

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What makes you think theres not Black Widow spiders in Massachusetts?

 

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When I was growing up our chickens would kill snakes, brown recluse spiders, scorpions, bees...you name it.

I have never seen them eat the heads of the snakes though...so I am sure their actual toxin intake is small. But I do not know for sure.

 

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No cooper heads, but plenty of rattlers in northern Ca. My wood pile is full of them. When the DW goes to bring in wood, she pulls down what she wants with a rake before picking it up.