Chickens & Spiders

[kagedgoddess]

we found this living behind the brooder... i saw the chickies try and eat it one day, it ran away, they DID eat the egg sack though... thank god... but umm. its a little big so it is now slowing suffocating in a jar.... anyways, they werent hurt from their dual.

 

[Marie66]

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what type of spider is it?

 

[Jeox]

I doubt wolf spiders have enough venom to kill a chick, let alone an adult. I can't really even see them getting bitten, unless they lay on it, or something.

 

[kagedgoddess]

wolf spider.... i think. we have lots of smaller ones round here... its in a jar, i can get better pics if ya want? ... well dh will, it creeps me out!

 

[Cats Critters]

My one RIR hen George will eat any spider she can find

 

[RuffTuffCreampuff]

Oooh....watch out for the brown recluse spider. I imagine that the chickens would make quick work of any spider short of a tarantula, but I'm on the tail-end of nursing a brown recluse bite I sustained when I put on a pair of work gloves to work on a new coop. The double butt-full rochephin shot ain't much fun. I intend to beat my gloves against a tree and stomp on them from now on.

 

[PitterPaws]

That looks about the size of the spiders we have here. I don't like them one bit!

Send George this way

I'm not sure if we have brown recluse here in wisconsin but I'm always on the lookout, I'm sorry you got bit, glad your at the tail end of your brown recluse bite treatment, I just got bit on my finger the other day by a small spider that was in the finger of my glove.
It was a small one and not a brown recluse but it sure does itch today!

 

[Cats Critters]

Send George this way

No way, I need her to get rid of the huge spiders in my garden

 

[PitterPaws]

Oh Rats!

Can't get a George when you need one

Guess I'll have to train my chickens to eat the spicers

Edited to add: I ment to say Spiders not Spicers

 

[purpletree23]

A spider that will charge at you? I think I'm going to die! Maybe George can be rented? I sure could use her.