Ewww, LuLu Killed A...

[Chickaroo!]

My chickens were out free ranging when I heard my DH yell, "You better go check on LuLu! She's out there fighting something!" So, I run outside and found her standing over a mole (or vole, I'm not sure which)! I didn't know if it'd hurt her or not if she ate it so I got a shovel and threw it in the woods.

Would it have made her sick it she had eaten it?

 

[Buster]

No it won't make her sick. Chickens are omnivores and she would have been just fine eating it. Chickens can actually be very good mousers. Tell your bird congratulations for me!

 

[Buster]

Just found this thread that is related and may help you:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=80947

 

[BowChickaBowMow]

Oh how funny! Mine chase the chipmunks, but haven't caught one yet. I wish they'd get the pesky one that keeps sneaking in my house!

 

[MissPrissy]

She knows what she can eat. They will swallow a mouse whole too - lizards, small snakes, frogs - all sorts of delicacies to chickens

 

[spook]

Chickens are a riot when it comes to "free ranging". If they can't get it down, they will fight over it until its at the size to get down. One of our girls has actually caught a red squirrel! The poor varmet lost 1/2 its tail hair because Queenie was not going to let it go! What a hoot, needless to say, I have not seen any squirrel brave enough to make the rounds on the ground with these girls! Except the chipmonk and his days are numbered!
Snakes are a favorite food of my girls, of course we do not have any dangerous snakes where we are located.

 

[Michigan Chickman]

Chicken thought process: "smaller than me - eat it, bigger than me - hide in the coop!"