Chickens eating me

[Cburgert]

I caught my chickens eating mice. Is this normal, or even safe? I've neve heard of this.

 

[Chickassan]

Yeah it's normal. Your thread title isn't

 

[SunHwaKwon]

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

Very normal, chickens are omnivores and eat plant and animal materiel (despite the "all natural vegetarian diet" a certain chicken meat producer loves to crow about as though its the gold standard in poultry nutrition). Chickens will gladly catch and eat anything that doesn't catch and eat them first

 

[sannabelle]

And the extra protein will give your yolks a beauuuutiful deep orange color

 

[lazy gardener]

Just don't fall down in the chicken run.

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

Just don't fall down in the chicken run.

Lol, long running joke here is me reminding dh how easily I could dispose of his body, though would be harder with my new, much smaller, flock

 

[lazy gardener]

Several months ago, I had a few days of vertigo. I bent over to fill a feeder, and almost did a face plant in the grow out coop. That would have presented a grizzly scene.

 

[Ridgerunner]

Lol, long running joke here is me reminding dh how easily I could dispose of his body, though would be harder with my new, much smaller, flock

But how would you manage the larger bones? The chickens would take care of softer materials and the smaller bones but the larger bones would still be evidence. Unless you have hogs I don't think he has to worry.

Cburgert, when I trap a mouse I feed it to the chickens. That normally causes a great game of keep-away that's fun to watch. Mine really love to catch a frog probably even more than a mouse. They really enjoy a small snake too. And of course there are all the grasshoppers, June bugs, crawfish, grubs, and other creepy crawlies they love. Those things are all a natural food source and chickens eating them are just chickens being chickens. You don't have anything to worry about.

 

[Chickassan]

You let the squirrels, rabbits, groundhogs and chipmunks take care of the bigger bones. Who needs hogs when you've got tree rats?