"Chef Savage"...

[barnababy]

Does anybody else have ducks that eat lizards, snakes, and/or scorpions?? It seems extreme to me. This girl is a beast.

 

[cavemanrich]

Start limiting their feed and they will start looking at you funny.
JK. I have read posting on the Arizona thread of chickens wolfing down all the above mentioned. You are in similar climate, so all those lively snacks are available. Around here, we don't have such, but it is not unheard of for chickens to consume mice.
WISHING YOU BEST......

 

[Miss Lydia]

My Muscovy's eat small snakes, frogs, salamanders don't think we have scorpions I cleaned out a storage building one time and found a mouse nest took the shovel and scoop it out on the ground tiny baby mice were scarfed down before I could blink.
Most likely my Runners and Buffs eat the same just haven't seen it. We are just about insect free here in summer with chicken and ducks as bug patrol

 

[cavemanrich]

 

[DuckMom2017]

I've seen mine eat snakes, frogs, and today tried to eat a dead mouse my cat left out.
I tackled the duck and took the mouse from her

 

[sumi]

It's part of their natural diet. When I lived in South Africa, my chickens there ate small snakes, frogs and mice, though I fed them well, it's in their nature to hunt a bit for food as well.

 

[barnababy]

Wow, okay that's nuts! I'm kind of relieved though honestly to hear that she's not the only one. I was sure that she wasn't, but she's the only one of any that I've had that has ever been witness to eat such extreme things.
I have seen her eat small toads before, too. My outdoor 3 ducks would hunt bugs and stuff like that and I have a creek running behind my house so they are able during the day to go out and fishing hunting eats Crustaceans and what have you. But none of them ever ( but I or anyone else witnessed) even attempted to eat the other stuff.
now when we go to Petco - it's really hilarious because they keep the feeder mice by the front door, and I just know that she's every time begging me saying " mom. Mom. Mom. Please? Mom. Please. I want to eat that. Give me one of those. I'm going to eat the Mousie." I've always been too afraid of she got 'hands' on something like that it would claw her throat up though, so she has to settle for me buying her crickets and Minnows

 

[littlefarmgirl9]

OHO YEAH! My Buffy (bet y'all can guess her breed!) eats snakes on a regular basis. I've also seen her break the skulls of many a toad by whacking it on the ground and then viciously shaking it to tear through the leathery skin. Once, she got a BIG toad and couldn't fit in her beak, but still tried to swallow it. I had to pull it out by the legs so Buffy didn't choke, and then chop it upon with a shovel so its death was not in vain.
A week ago, Buffy saw a vole skitter across the ice-coated driveway, and snapped it up. When I found her, she was hitting it against the ground and trying to break through the skin. The poor lil guy needn't have died though; we didn't let Buffy finish him because she might've choked on the bones. Not to mention the furballs we would've seen.
Also, she has eaten salamanders, though not as many as snakes. They learned their lesson fast!
Anyway, it all adds to the adventure of having hens! I still have a video of Buffy slurping down a baby garter like a noodle. Just don't tell your egg customers, and they'll be convinced there's some secret to the great tasting eggs...when really, it's all just the circle of life.
The ironic thing is, Buffy is my sweetest hen to me, loves to be pet and held, but at the tippy top of the pecking order. And as described above, I've witnessed her merciless nature towards prey firsthand. Just goes to show ya, its not just roosters that know how to intimidate.

 

[Bills vs Beaks]

OHO YEAH! My Buffy (bet y'all can guess her breed!) eats snakes on a regular basis. I've also seen her break the skulls of many a toad by whacking it on the ground and then viciously shaking it to tear through the leathery skin. Once, she got a BIG toad and couldn't fit in her beak, but still tried to swallow it. I had to pull it out by the legs so Buffy didn't choke, and then chop it upon with a shovel so its death was not in vain.
A week ago, Buffy saw a vole skitter across the ice-coated driveway, and snapped it up. When I found her, she was hitting it against the ground and trying to break through the skin. The poor lil guy needn't have died though; we didn't let Buffy finish him because she might've choked on the bones. Not to mention the furballs we would've seen.
Anyway, it all adds to the adventure of having hens! I still have a video of Buffy slurping down a baby garter like a noodle. Just don't tell your egg customers, and they'll be convinced there's some secret to the great tasting eggs...when really, it's all just the circle of life.
The ironic thing is, Buffy is my sweetest hen to me, loves to be pet and held, but at the tippy top of the pecking order. And as described above, I've witnessed her merciless nature towards prey firsthand. Just goes to show ya, its not just roosters that know how to intimidate.

this is a duck?

 

[littlefarmgirl9]

this is a duck?

Nope, Buff ORP hen. But yeah, I had the same reaction when my sweet Buffy first learned to feed herself lol!