chicks and frogs

[horsejody]

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I wonder if dinosaurs crowed. That would have been awesome.

 

[Kansaseq]

My teenage SS have eaten pinkie mice and adults that were dumb enough to nest in my coop. It's like a little chicken smorgasboard! (involuntary shudder )

 

[Maryallison]

WOW

I didn't know chickens were that tough...... Flffy dinos, I love it!

 

[wombat]

Our chickens eat anything that moves slower than a chicken!

 

[Judy]

There are lots of toads around my coops and my chickens totally ignore them. I really think they know better.

Of course they eat flies and mosquitoes and worms and....

 

[Buckhorn Farm]

We have little green frogs and the chickens love them!

 

[danielbrown]

Chickens love a live meal.

 

[HorseFeatherz NV]

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I wonder if dinosaurs crowed. That would have been awesome.

A crowing dinosaur might make people stop complaining about crowing roosters.

 

[Wifezilla]

It has been assumed by scientists that vocalisation would have been very important to dinosaurs, with different species, and indeed different individuals within a species making distinct sounds. The cheeks and beaks found in many Ornithopods such as Iguanodonts would have altered and helped modify the sounds these animals produced. Perhaps, quieter, frequent chirps between herd members to keep in contact with each other and then louder, bellows to warn of danger. The larger the animal the lower the frequency of the sound likely to be produced. Compsognathus, a small bipedal dinosaur of the Jurassic, no more than 3 feet long would have probably produced high pitched squeaks and squawks, whilst a giant Sauropod such as Apatosaurus would have produced very deep, low frequency sounds beyond the range of human hearing. The sounds these huge animals produced would have caused vibrations (similar to the low frequency vibrations produced by alligators). It is possible that these animals could have detected these vibrations through their feet. Another method through which these large animals could keep in contact with each other.

http://blog.everythingdinosaur.co.uk/blog/Palaeontologicalarticles/_archives/2008/7/16/3795321.html

Duck-billed dinosaurs may even have a modern-day counterpart in sound production.
Earlier research suggests that cassowaries, extant flightless birds that can weigh up to 125 pounds, use their helmet-like bony casque to help produce low, "booming" calls.
"When close to the bird, these calls can be heard or felt as an unsettling sensation, similar to how observers describe elephant vocalizations," said Andrew Mack, who led the study for the Wildlife Conservation Society.
Mack said, "These investigations are exciting because many dinosaur fossils exhibit casques at least superficially similar to those of living cassowaries."
Evans added that living crocodilians also possess inner ears that are comparable to those of the duck-billed dinosaurs. Somewhat similar to cassowaries, crocodiles and alligators produce very low, rumbling calls, sounds that may have been common during the Dinosaur Age.

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/10/16/duck-billed-dino-02.html

For all its appearance as a ferocious predator, Tyrannosaurus rex was just an overgrown chicken, researchers have found.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article3811158.ece​

 

[crait]

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WHAT?!!?!?!?

My chickens love finding geckos all over the place! They hunt them down and gobble them up! I kinda feel bad but that's like their favorite treat!
They eat bugs too.

I'd say let them eat it unless it looks poisonous. The chickens should be able to instinctively tell. Look up frog breeds and you should be able to match it up and use Wikipedia to check out how poisonous it is.