Can I feed my chickens rats that I caught in the coop

[JacinLarkwell]

i always assumed crawdads never felt pain as people like to boil them alive

People also boil fish, crab/lobster, frogs and in some places about 10 years ago, cats, alive.

It's a method of adding flavor to the meat

 

[Butchers Wife]

Do you know where the rat's been? Is it a city rat or a country rat. A trapped country rat is just as nutritious and safe for chickens to eat as road kill.

 

[Bryce Thomas]

Do you know where the rat's been? Is it a city rat or a country rat. A trapped country rat is just as nutritious and safe for chickens to eat as road kill.

Its a country rat, it has to survive coyotes and hawks and great horned owls every day, its only 1.5" inches long minus the tail

 

[Brooks_]

Do you know where the rat's been? Is it a city rat or a country rat. A trapped country rat is just as nutritious and safe for chickens to eat as road kill.

 

[Butchers Wife]

People also boil fish, crab/lobster, frogs and in some places about 10 years ago, cats, alive.

It's a method of adding flavor to the meat

Sounds like one of those 'if you can catch it you can eat it' places. Like Mississippi or Viet Nam

 

[Bryce Thomas]

Sounds like one of those 'if you can catch it you can eat it' places. Like Mississippi or Viet Nam

LOL sounds about right now I cant stop thinking of my asain friends

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Sounds like one of those 'if you can catch it you can eat it' places. Like Mississippi or Viet Nam

I believe the country I originally read about for it was honestly china. I think it was a essay about wet markets

 

[Chicalina]

Crustaceans and mammals and fish have a central nervous system and feel pain. Humans are often just uncaring and cruel in the methods we use to trap and kill animals. A swift sharp knife to the brain of lobster, crab and crawdads kills instantly and humanely. Boiling alive is awful.

BTW we have 2 types of freshwater crayfish (what we call crawdads) here in the UK. One that is indigenous and protected (white clawed crayfish), and one that is an pernicious invader from North America (signal crayfish). If you catch them, you have to put back the white clawed ones, and you aren't allowed to put back the signals as they are classed as an invasive species.

We catch them in our local river with a cooked chicken drumstick on a string. They are delicious!

 

[Pollito Pelon]

Try feeding a recently killed rat but they didn't want it. I used to have chickens that were rat killers but my current ones don't seem to be rat hunters.

 

[Folly's place]

The less done with wild rats the better; they can carry nasty diseases. Bury them deep, or something instead. Feeding them to anyone isn't good.
Mary