Live Fish?

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Will they eat live feeder fish in a bowl of water? I wanted ducks, but my mom won't let me(water and all that messy stuff), and I thought, will the chickens eat fish like ducks do? Some of the minnows at my local PetSmart are really small.
 
They might but I'd be afraid of them drowning themselves tryin to catch 'em. Ducks know to hold their breath under water, I don't think chickens know this.
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What an interesting question. I will be interested to see if anyone has info for you. Good luck with the chickens!
 
I don't know about fish, but if you throw a dozen or so crickets in the coop it will make you fall down laughing.
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Tammy: I didn't think of that. Maybe in a really shallow dish?

Kittymomma: True, but my mom thinks the bag will explode and there will be 10000 crickets in the house.
 
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Not if you let a couple of chickens loose with them.
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They really like meal worms too and your mom might be more comfortable with that--they don't move as fast.
 
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My chickens like to forage along the bank of my pond. One day I saw a small leghorn pullet being chased across the yard by the other birds with a 6 inch catfish in her beak.

So yeah, they will eat live fish and no, they won't drown.
 
Yes! They will eat live fish.

I gave my chickens a live fish supplement from 8 weeks to about the time they started to lay.

Small pond, minnow trap, compressed slice of white bread. I would catch 25 to 50 minnows every morning, take the minnows and dump them onto the floor of the tractor. 30 seconds minnows gone, chickens looking for more.

Minnows were about the size of my little finger. Not a burp, slurp or anything, they would just gobble'em down.

I would not present the fish to my chickens in a bowl of water, I would just chunk the fish right into the run.
 
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They really like meal worms too and your mom might be more comfortable with that--they don't move as fast.

Better with me, too. My local PetSmart doesn't carry live mealworms, though.
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ETA: They do have dead ones, but I think I'm leaning more towards giving them live fish. A bit more expensive, but I'll just buy the biggest fish I find and it'll be cheaper.
 
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