Don't eat that.

[chickenmama109]

I love to watch them run around like they have there heads cut off when they are fighting to eat the bug one got and the others want it

 

[ChickenzGurl]

Lol I saw one with a cacoon, and of course it was teeny, the pecked-on one, so another took it, but then it split with this nasty gooey stuff dumping out. At first I thought it was a bug, but as I looked closer, I saw a shell( and 6 different chicken heads poking around at all of the good stuff). I guess they really liked... whatever that was

 

[theuglyduckling]

Iguana, rats and chicken poop.

 

[chickenmama109]

Lol I saw one with a cacoon, and of course it was teeny, the pecked-on one, so another took it, but then it split with this nasty gooey stuff dumping out. At first I thought it was a bug, but as I looked closer, I saw a shell( and 6 different chicken heads poking around at all of the good stuff). I guess they really liked... whatever that was

Yes the one chicken that grabs the bug first will get it taken away from another chicken and he won't get none lol

 

[SGH]

I had one eat a scorpion. She grabbed it, the scorpion stung her right on her face, she dropped it, shook her head a couple times, then went ahead and ate him. She was fine

 

[ChickenzGurl]

Yes the one chicken that grabs the bug first will get it taken away from another chicken and he won't get none lol

Yes the one chicken that grabs the bug first will get it taken away from another chicken and he won't get none lol

Yes, especially if it’s the weird chicken that’s left out
Poor Teeny

 

[chickenmama109]

Yes, especially if it’s the weird chicken that’s left out
Poor Teeny

Yup I have a d,uccle that always gets left out of the grabing bugs and running she nev3r gets to eat them

 

[drumstick diva]

you have to tilt the odds in her favor - like lock up all the birds and show her where some bug is.

 

[Kessel23]

I need an option for a bat, toads, snakes, and chicken feet. When I was much younger we would let our chickens free range all day, one time a hen came running out of the woods with a dead bat in her beak, all the other birds were trying to catch her and take it but my dad ended up grabbing it and burying it so the girls could not find it again.

Last summer some of the hens made a habit of killing and eating out the stomachs of large toads, I would try to take the toad away if I got there in time but I would usually just come out to see a hen running around with a skinned toad and a few other hens chasing her.

Snakes... Several years ago I loved going around the greenhouse and catching little snakes, I would put them in a bucket and see how many I could catch in a day, they were usually very small garter snakes or dekay's brown snakes, sometimes red bellied snakes, well one time I brought the bucket of snakes out to my dad, he was taking care of the chickens, I showed him the snakes and then put the bucket down as I followed him around and talked with him, I came back to a bucket with a hen in it and no snakes.

This one is probably the second weirdest thing but it comes close to the bat... Another chicken's foot. A few days before this happened one of the chickens got killed by a coon, we did not find the body but clearly one of the other chickens did because a hen came running out of the woods with another chicken's, slightly rotted, foot in her beak, and as always, several other hens were chasing her.

When you let your birds free range all day they can find some pretty interesting things... especially around here apparently... Another annoying thing one of my roosters likes to eat is whatever you are holding, I made the mistake of training him to jump up and grab food out of my hand, now if some small kid goes out there and is eating some candy he grabs it out of their hands and tries to feed it to the hens... And then of course there is mice, other small animals, and sometimes dead chicks that I throw into the woods. Really makes you realize that chickens are omnivores and will eat almost anything, even if they have unlimited access to grain. I have also had them eat poisonous berries and one time one of the roosters swallowed a bee and got stung in the throat, his crows sounded funny for a few days after that.
I have not read anyone's posts in this thread yet, I am going to now, time to see what other crazy stuff chickens will eat...

 

[Kessel23]

Another thing my chickens ate was some of my artwork I made in grade school, I came home after school ended and forgot my stuff in the coop (the first place I always went after school) the chickens really enjoyed pecking at the large variety of colors and ripping the paper apart.