My chicken ate a baby bird

[Akrnaf2]

My chickens eat everything-mice, frogs, and birds, even each other. (Once a hawk got a pullet and left part of her. The hens made quick work ) it’s normal. They are omnivores (although too much protein is bad for them) and eat pretty much anything. It’s sad, but it’s also life.

It isn't sad it is what it is.

 

[Akrnaf2]

We In Israel have also this bird Hoplopterus spinosus
The spur winged Lapwing that kept a spur on its wing

 

[townchicks]

Thanks @Akrnaf2, Those are two beautiful and interesting species. The worst my girls have done is catch a lizard. While I like having the lizards around, it was amusing to watch them chasing each other around trying to get a piece. It was quite a prize.

 

[Akrnaf2]

You are welcome!

 

[lazy gardener]

The robins who nested under my deck fledged 3 broods of chicks last summer. Between the chickens and the crows, not a single baby survived. When a chick fledges, he is at his most vulnerable.

 

[Birdsong 82]

This chickadee was fully feathered as well. I just went out to put the chickens up for the night and found that my cat had gotten the other baby. It must have fallen out as well.

My daughter caught my cat knocking something around in the yard with her paws. Went over and found it was a little baby we thought Bluejay. Barely had feathers. We then found three other ones. We’re lucky we got to them when we did. They were unharmed thankfully. Mama ahead and come back we brought them in the house at night because if we left them out they were as good as dead . Put them in a basket in a tree the next morning but mama never came back. Luckily there is a lady not too far that is a certified animal rescue from her home. When I called her a couple weeks ago she let me know that the birds were happy and healthy and have been set free to live a happy bird life. Turned out they were finches
My daughter is such a trooper she set an alarm to wake up every hour and a half to syringe them a little bit of wet cat food to get them through the night

 

[Akrnaf2]

The robins who nested under my deck fledged 3 broods of chicks last summer. Between the chickens and the crows, not a single baby survived. When a chick fledges, he is at his most vulnerable.

Shalom H!
To keep a population in an equilibrium (= the same more or less population density )only 2 from ALL OFFSPRING of a single feamale have to reach adulthood, so the situation you have described is quite common.......

 

[LittleMissCountry]

My daughter caught my cat knocking something around in the yard with her paws. Went over and found it was a little baby we thought Bluejay. Barely had feathers. We then found three other ones. We’re lucky we got to them when we did. They were unharmed thankfully. Mama ahead and come back we brought them in the house at night because if we left them out they were as good as dead . Put them in a basket in a tree the next morning but mama never came back. Luckily there is a lady not too far that is a certified animal rescue from her home. When I called her a couple weeks ago she let me know that the birds were happy and healthy and have been set free to live a happy bird life. Turned out they were finches
My daughter is such a trooper she set an alarm to wake up every hour and a half to syringe them a little bit of wet cat food to get them through the night

I am glad my daughter was at camp this week and didn't see it. She is such an animal lover that she gets upset when the chickens eat bugs.

 

[GreatGranny]

I have watched our hens kill mice, snakes, lizards, and frogs! We call them dinosaurs and my hubby calls our roo a "raptor"! I have always had the feeling that birds were descendants of dinosaurs, even in Jr high when I used a Thanksgiving turkey carcass to build a Tyrannosaurs Rex for a science project. Most all the bones matched up and I made the ones that were absent! I was laughed at 50 years ago but I feel very vindicated now!

 

[Birdsong 82]

I’m glad she was too Because I can imagine she would’ve been upset. My daughters the same way. had she not noticed what the cat was batting around in time she would’ve been devastated. Especially since they must have fallen from the tree because we checked and they weren’t even close to being able to fly. They barely had feathers
I’m glad none of my chickens have ever gotten any. But that cat of mine has climbed 13 feet up a tree to grab a baby bluejay out of the nest. We had to stop her on that one too. When she got back down that tree