Caught a gopher... give it to the girls?

[AlbionWood]

Caught a gopher this evening, just after the flock went to bed. It'll be cool, in the 40s tonight. Can I give it to them tomorrow morning and see what they make of it? They are about 7 weeks old, have been ranging around a large yard for a couple weeks. If it's a risk I'll let the vultures have it - there are plenty of gophers for later...

 

[justbugged]

High 40's or low 40's? If you are in to the low 40's it will be fine for your chicks in the morning. I am a little concerned about give chicks that young a rodent. Rodents often carry diseases and things like worms.

 

[AlbionWood]

Don't want 'em to get worms yet... I'll toss the carcass to the ravens, with luck they will get sick and leave.

 

[PhilErvin]

If you do ever give a dead rodent to your girls I would not tell people about it. I told folks that I would feed a dead gopher to my girls and they all said "...yewwwww, ...

...I couldn't eat your eggs if I knew they had eaten that...."

 

[AlbionWood]

Wimps! I'll just have to educate my customers better...

Watching the gurlz and the chix attack leftover chicken meat was eye-opening. Now I get what y'all mean with the Jurassic Park/Velociraptor references!