OMG my chickens ATE Mice, HELP!!!!

[MyLoveableChick]

My chicken looks like a sex-link / a red island rhode

 

[chickenjoy01]

This is exactly why I have to inform my family and friends that buying the "100% vegetarian diet" chicken eggs is BS! Chickens are omnivores and love bugs, meat, basically anything they can eat. This is my first flock, I have 13 hens and 2 roosters split between buffs and wyandottes. I watched the whole flock chase a small ground hog around the yard yesterday and fiercely peck it! A GROUND HOG!

 

[Papas Chickens]

Yup. I can totally see that. Except of course where I live there are no scorpions, lizards or kangaroo rats.
Am I correct in assuming there is absolutely nothing wrong with your eggs or your chicken soup?

My girls are only 9 weeks old but if they were of age there still wouldnt be nothing wrong with my eggs or my homemade chicken soup lol. Were do you live not to have lizards or scorpions?

 

[Kusanar]

My girls are only 9 weeks old but if they were of age there still wouldnt be nothing wrong with my eggs or my homemade chicken soup lol. Were do you live not to have lizards or scorpions?

Lol, we have lizards but not scorpions or kangaroo rats (maybe the rats, but I really don't think so) but I bet there aren't many reptiles in the northern us since they would be dormant most of the year.

 

[RezChamp]

Pest contril sprays are deadly for chickens if you are free ranging, I was going to have my property sprayed for ticks but learned that there isnt any safe pesticide.

Turkeys and guinea fowl love eating ticks. I don't know though if you live in an urban or rural setting so......

 

[RezChamp]

I live pretty well dead center of Canada(sic). Some people refer to my home area as Manitoba Interlake Region
Pretty well straight north of Grand Forks(sic), North Dakota(sic) about 5-6 hrs drive.

Its home even with all it's recent "improvements"(lack thereof or more precisely, quite the opposite).

My house is on the northern edge of a section(1mi x 1mi) that is roughly 1/5-1/4 lower lands(wet in spring with frogs, drying to lowland wild hay in August),1/2 wooded areas and the rest ag land(highland wild&tame hay and crop) with a spring fed creek running thru th SW quad.
This was all forest(mixed boreal) and swamp(wet-dry 15-30 yr cycles) when I was young.
Moose, elk, deer, timber wolves, beaver, bear, muskrat, ducks, geese, Ruffed grouse, groundhogs, swans, fish in the river, even 8-12ft sturgeons.
All kinds of wild edibles. Everything a human needed to provide a very,very good life to a family even as large as mine was available within a 2 mile radius. We have maybe 1% left of all that.
There are some pockets of relatively intact eco-systems not far from my home that I enjoy immensely by dog sledding, hunting, picnicking, trekking, camping, harvesting foods and meds.
But it is far from the huge one-piece I saw as a child and adolescent, and it's still home.
I refuse to give-up and give-in to corporate resource rape.
I firmly believe my children deserve the same beautiful home I had......
@ the center of Creation.

 

[RezChamp]

Hmph. I thought this #116 was going personally to Papas Chicken #113.
Oh well.

 

[Papas Chickens]

Turkeys and guinea fowl love eating ticks. I don't know though if you live in an urban or rural setting so......

I have 5 guinea keets right now there about 9 weeks old just a little young to let run the yard right now, ill be taking about 8 of my larger 9 week old chickens out into the yard tomorrow to see what they do.

 

[MyLoveableChick]

Is your homemade chicken soup good?

 

[bigmrg74]

I'm a little disappointed in my girls tonight. I happened to catch a mouse, (no worries, I was wearing leather work gloves at the time). And my brother was coming right up the driveway. I thought it would be cool to toss the mouse in there and have them go at it, allow them to honor their ancestral roots to dinosaurs. Anyways, he gets out and I have him whip out his phone to video it, and I toss him into the tractor with the girls. WHAT A BIG disappointment!!! Instead of a bloody frenzy in hunting and chasing it down, they hardly paid any interest in the little bugger. A few pecks at it, but they mostly left it alone. Good news is that it proves how critter tight my tractor is when a mouse can be inside of it for about 2 hours without being able to get out.

But still, I wanted to see those fierce and merciless killers unleashed, not a bunch of ninny hens.