Do you think a mouse would bite a chicken?

[babsh]

I have a sick Sebright with bumblefoot. We have her quarantined in an ark. She cannot walk at all and just sits there. We have brought the food and water right up to her, though she is barely eating anything.

My kids went to check on her tonite and found her very bloody. We brought her in the house and cleaned her up and she appears to have a cut on the edge of her wing. We are stymied how she could have gotten cut? Especially as she is almost totally immobile. When we found her bloodied, she was only about 3" from where I had set her down earlier.

So I'm wondering if it's possible that something bit her? Would a mouse, looking for food, get in a tousle with a chicken? Any ideas?

Barb

 

[Lbrad7]

Not sure about a mouse but a rat sure would...especally a sebright since they are so small.

 

[pgpoultry]

I agree, much more likely to be rat than mouse.

sandie

 

[babsh]

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I thought about that, but I have never seen a rat in my entire life. My birds are in my suburban backyard shed. I do see mice on occasion and we set traps for them. But I've never seen a rat or evidence of one.

It was so strange.

 

[Giammona farm]

Rats will attack chickens until they mess with something that ends up attacking them

 

[HeatherLynn]

Many man years ago when I was a kid we had a goose. We lived in a nice developed neighborhood. Clean, maintained, no major sources of food about. Woke up one morning to our goose having no bill left. It has been chewed off. My dad promptly set traps, locked up our dogs, and caught the biggest dang rat you have ever seen. Well the biggest I had ever seen. The goose lived, she was just special needs after that but it can happen even in a suburban backyard.

 

[33yardbirds]

Of course a mouse will bite a chicken, especially if the bird steps on it.