OMGosh......A MOUSE

[TxChiknRanchers]

People dont believe me but if chickens weighed 250 pounds, they would eat us!! Turn em loose they will get the mouse! Ours have killed and eaten no less than 5 baby snakes in the past two weeks! Funny to watch chickens playing tug o war with a snake. Makes me wonder, how many snakes do I have around here!
Randy

 

[gritsar]

If you do decide to set traps and not let the chickens handle the dirty work, I've recently seen a better mousetrap (build it and they'll beat a path to your door?) made by d-con, I believe. If I'm understanding the situation correctly a mousetrap wouldn't be a good thing in a coop cuz you don't want the chicken's toes caught in it? This new mouse trap looks like a hockey puck. Mice go in the opening on the side, a panel slides over the opening. What happens to the mouse inside I'm not sure.

Barring a better solution, Texas is not that far from Arkansas. I'll parcel post Kitty the Killer Kat to ya. She works real cheap - one can of Pounce per month.

 

[Dodgegal79]

My Muscovys love to steal the cats dead mice and baby rats. i was worried at first when i seen one eat a dead shrew but then I read that they eat meat in the wild, so no more worrying, but if i see them with one i will tak it way. I'm worried about botulism and stuff, not know how long its been dead.

 

[theMickster]

When I was a teenager I brought home and cleaned a Phesant I had shot that had a shrew in it's crop. I was shocked to say the least. I had no idea Gallinaceous birds( chicken-like birds) were such oppertunists. I've since heard it said that Buckeyes (the chicken-not the football player) will out perform cats as mousers.
Mick

 

[SugarLandChickenMan]

How do the eggs taste after the hens gobble down rodents? A little MOUSEY?

Hehe....but seriously! Any chance of getting any sort of diseases transmitted?

 

[SpottedCrow]

I doubt it...because the stomach acid takes care of that.

 

[MaransGuy]

My birds also love to dine on rodents. There is a chipmunk that has a whole habitrail under the yard with an opening right in the middle of their yard. My little sebright rooster will chase that thing every time he sees it, even though it is almost half his size!

Richard

 

[halo]

Whoa, thats a big chipmunk!

 

[jjthink]

Allanah,
I don't worry about the occasional mouse. It's not going to harm anything. Having no interest in killing them, I sometimes hav-a-hart them and relocate to a field/forest border, away from homes. There is also a product called "Mouse Magic" an all natural non toxic repellent that I have yet to try so can't personally vouch for but others say works really well. You can find it on line.
JJ

 

[MaransGuy]

Actually, it is a really small sebright!