Crazy Rat Exterminating Experience

[Princessferf]

This is all great to hear. I hope that now since they've had a taste of rat, they'll be more aggressive to the ones they see in the coop.

I guess there's not much of a difference between a large bug and a baby rat in their eyes.

 

[SpottedCrow]

Obelisk got a pinky mouse one time...I was cleaning their room and found a momma mouse and a couple of babies...I moved everyone so that I could clean where they were and Obelisk thought it was a lovely treat...two pecks and gulp!

 

[Wolf-Kim]

Chickens love to eat just about anything they can over power! I use to have 3 sex-link hens that would literally "dig" for a mole in the mole tunnels.

I've also heard the Buckeye chickens LOVE and are KNOWN for their mousing abilities. Some people compare the Buckeye chicken to cats when it comes to mousing! It may work well with some rats too..

LOL.. I should breed the Buckeyes to a few Jersey Giants and make some "ratters".. It's brilliant!!

-Kim

 

[Cara]

Mine have killed a couple of mice, but their favourites are wild birds. They caught a hummingbird while I was in with them one day, and there's nothing more gruesome than watching a chicken running around with little legs sticking out of its mouth! They catch and kill sparrows after their scratch too.

 

[eggchel]

Kim said: LOL.. I should breed the Buckeyes to a few Jersey Giants and make some "ratters".. It's brilliant!!

They would be the rat-terriers of the chicken world. I'd buy some. Heck, Im thinking of getting some Buckeyes for the mice cuz our barn cats have gotten old and lazy. LOL


Chel​

 

[Wolf-Kim]

Quote:
They would be the rat-terriers of the chicken world. I'd buy some. Heck, Im thinking of getting some Buckeyes for the mice cuz our barn cats have gotten old and lazy. LOL


Chel

I really seriously considered trying it as a breeding project..LOL

But it would have to wait until I had more time and money. I would have to buy the buckeyes, and they would have to be good mousing Buckeyes too, and then I would have to buy the Jersey Giants. And THEN on top of all that, to make them effective Ratters I would have to raise them to at least adolescent(almost adulthood) and all the while "training" them with first dead rats, and then injured rats, and then the true tests of a full grown nasty rat.. LOL.. By the time they were ready to be sold and make their breed a reputation for being Ratters, they would be expensive!!

I know, I'm so weird..

-Kim

 

[swiftfoot]

my chicks go crazy over night crawlers we buy them in a jug and then feed them one once a day
a 4 inch night crawler can stretch 12inches its pretty funny to watch them play keep away