Chickens eat mice?

[Areolyn]

I threw baby mice to mine once because I found them in some Christmas decorations. They loved the things, and my brother called me evil and the birdies satanic savages...lol little does he know the eat his frog friends around here too.

 

[silkymom]

yep chickens willeat anything, hehhe, i guess if they eat it its ok? i give alot of scraps and things, bread, tatos tomatoes are the favorite, apples ecct, i dont feed meat but i guess if they get it its fair game, hhheee these birds are omnivores,

 

[Areolyn]

I would be careful of the potatoes, you din't want to feed them ones that are green.

 

[xosnowhiteox]

Ok, new question for those of you with mouse eating chickens. . . do they poop out the bones, like Owls do?

Actually owls regurgitate the bones and fur out into pellets, they do not "poo" them out...

 

[wendyBe]

I am in Australia and I have 2 Australorps in a suburban backyard. Beautiful big, healthy black hens. Generally I get 10 eggs, each weighing between 60 and 70grams per week. But the chooks seem very happy to share their food with the native mice. I remove the food at night but the mice still come in to their run and 'share' the grain on the ground. The chickens are affectionate and feisty but not aggressive towards the mice at all. I might try the peppermint oil down the holes that the mice access. Any other organic deterrents found since this thread was developed?

 

[Ironheartz]

OMG! My daughter & I are new to "Chickening"

and were worried mice would be harmful ...until we watched Flannery Eau's youtube video!! Yay, Georgenne!!!

 

[Pljen6]

I just watched my not quite 5 m.o. Barred Rock pullet catch and eat a mouse! I heard what I thought was the "egg song"(she has not yet laid) and went out to investigate. . . she had a nice sized mouse (thankfully deceased) in her beak and was running around shaking it, then, like a snake, she manouvered it into a "head first" position, and "down the hatch it went. Please enlighten me. . . is this common, or a real fluke? Thanks, Carol

mine have now eaten 3 mice. Do the chickens get worms or disease from eating rodents?

 

[LadiesAndJane]

mine have now eaten 3 mice. Do the chickens get worms or disease from eating rodents?

I do not think it will hurt them to eat mice, unless the mice have been in poison, fx rat or mice bait.
Mine eat HUGE cockroaches and small frogs and will fight over these "delicacies".

 

[Brenda Jones]

my girls (4 sapphire 10 weeks old gems) killed a mouse and ran around a bit with it, then dropped it by my chair and walked away from it. I had to pick it up and pitch it in the woods