Don't eat that.

[Macchickenman]

I have four 4.5 month old girls and today one of them, a black austrolorp got and killed two baby mice, about an hour apart... I was worried about the fact that maybe a neighbor had poisoned them so I got the ck to drop it and threw it away....

 

[LaurEliz]

Mine think anything I throw is food. That means when we had a fire in our burn pile and we threw old papers into it, the chickens ran toward it with extreme excitement until they felt how warm it was. It was a funny and horrifying thing to witness.

Mine really enjoyed the cast I used to have on my foot. There are certain patterned pajama pants that my chickens really think look tasty too.

We also live at the bottom of two hills, so, basically, we're in a valley. There is a pond at the top of one hill. When it rains, minnow-sized (and sometimes slightly bigger!) fish somehow manage to survive the fall down the hill into the ditch near our driveway, and then, some manage to get out of the ditch and into our driveway where shallow streams of water run if it rains enough. We do our best to catch them and take them in buckets down to the river, but sometimes the rainfall comes at night or while we're at work and the water streams stop by the time we wake up or come home, so there are dead fish all over our driveway.

Our chickens and turkeys, I believe, really enjoyed the driveway fish buffet.

 

[Johnny5ish]

Mine would rather eat mice and stink bugs than my cooking.

My chickens eat stink bugs and eastern lubbers. My Pekin ducks just eat the lubbers.

 

[Johnny5ish]

I want a chicken like that. I want an ARMY of that chicken! (what breed is it?)

I've never seen one eat a stink bug, a stinging bug, nor an arachnid. I wondered if stinkbugs were poisonous to chickens. We have those horrid huge eastern lubber grasshoppers that are black w red and yellow markings here and they don't touch those either, but I know they are poisonous.

Mine eat the lubbers and the stink bugs. All are still alive and doing fine. One duck was sick for a day. Maybe it was a lubber, maybe not. Where are the sources saying they are poisonous?