My chicken ate what?

[Tomhusker]

Um.. Fried Chicken.

 

[trying chickens]

 

[shortstaque]

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Wow, really interesting. Maybe that's why the chickens like it. I've read other posts saying the chickens ate styrofoam as well. Corn and starch are two of chickens' favorite things, no wonder.

 

[hcarlsonlewis]

Diamond earring. Plucked it right out of my ear and down the hatch before I knew what was happening. The back was still on my ear she pulled it out so fast! That was 3 weeks ago and haven't seen it since. I've heard this too shall pass, but how long can someone look thru the poop before they've had enough?

 

[shortstaque]

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This is off topic, but here goes. My roomie's BF swallowed his tongue ring. One day about three weeks later I was using the facilities and went to flush and saw a sparkle in the bottom of the tank. They fished it out and cleaned it with alcohol, but he never put it back in his mouth.

On a more serious note, was there enough metal on the earring to set off a metal detector? Or sift the compost really well in the spring.

 

[bigdaddyabc]

Mine have eaten, in no particular order, frogs, snakes, mice, toads, spiders, moths, lizards and several things that moved, but I am not sure what they were. Seems they like things that move layer pellets, BOSS, or anything else I put in their food dispensers. Go figure!

 

[TrystInn]

Our barncat loves to bring dead mice, rats, moles, etc to the chickens and they adore eating them.

In exchange, they let her nap in their coop some nights, so apparently its a rental payment.

 

[gritsar]

My chickens have eaten frogs, newts, mice and a small black snake.
The weirdest/most dangerous thing one of them ate was a piece of broken glass, about the size of a thumbnail. That would be Lilith, my brahma that thinks she's a magpie. She also eats soda can tabs.
Two years after the piece of glass and she's still breathing.

 

[Ariel301]

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For the same reason you would butcher a chicken (and then some).

We raise our own meat, and goat is economical. We can feed 20 goats on what it would cost to feed a single cow to proccessing age. Plus it is a healthier meat for you than beef, and just plain tastes good, and it is much easier to handle and butcher goats than cattle on a small farm. We raise dairy goats, and with dairy animals, you can't ever find enough homes for your male offspring (and every female who is going to be milked must be bred every year, and half of her babies will be male), and we are very selective about which males will be left in the gene pool anyway, so those that don't make the cut or don't have anywhere to go, end up in my freezer. And any parts we won't eat, end up in my chickens. No waste.

 

[Ariel301]

Oh, and I thought of another weird thing mine go for...they should not eat it, and I try to prevent it, but it seems like they get a couple every time...those little green rubber bands for castrating livestock. They must think it is candy or something, I have to hide the bag!