Q about feeding mice. **Those against killing mice DO NOT CLICK***

[nuthatched]

Yep, drywall, styrafoam, lizards, bees...lol, and that's what i see them eat.
Chickens have pretty robust digestive systems I'd imagine.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Eeeeew, don't say that!!!

You also don't want to know what those pigs ate from which your hot-dog was made…
Trust me the food industry is way more disgusting that one of your hens eating a mouse or a hairy spider.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Yep, drywall, styrafoam, lizards, bees...lol, and that's what i see them eat.
Chickens have pretty robust digestive systems I'd imagine.

They must have! - They have no hands holding knife and fork to pick in their food and sort out everything that looks "disgusting".

 

[Breakfast for dinner]

Yep, moved some large stones/pavers the other day and they were standing there to scoop up all the yummies. The slug one got was pretty nasty but funny watching them fight over it.

 

[Eggscaping]

Nope, but that guy is good.
ETA: after watching the vid am a bit disappointed that he seems more concerned with YT politics than the product tested.
I wanted to know if the chickens ate any of the bait....and why a 'trap genius' had such a large population of rats.

I believe he deliberately keeps a couple of sheds wherein he encourages mice and rats. How else would he be able to test all the traps? I do know that when he uses a live trap he doesn't kill the mice - and I've seen that he has a very large population of 'tame mice'. Some look like the kinds you buy for pets (I have one myself, sable and white) and some look like regular wild coloring. There's one he did called "Do rats eat mice?" where he was using a bucket trap that a roller dropped the mice into the bottom, and a huge male rat showed up, jumped down into the bucket and came out with the 3 trapped mice, one at a time...and the rat wasn't carrying the mice off to rescue them either. The mice couldn't jump out, but the rat could...with a mouse in his mouth!

 

[SueT]

My chickens also eat slugs, small snakes, toads,worms, grubs, tomato hornworms, voles,baby birds that fell to ground.....

 

[Chicken Heel]

Eggs getting infected is every 1 in 1 million, so getting salmonella from eggs is rare unless you get eggs from a store, then the chances are slightly higher since the chicken farms the eggs come from are very unsanitary.

The commercial / mass / global production of our food supply will more than likely be the end of us all at some point. None of us really know what we eat unless we have grown or raised it ourselves.

 

[MysteryChicken]

The commercial / mass / global production of our food supply will more than likely be the end of us all at some point. None of us really know what we eat unless we have grown or raised it ourselves.

True.

 

[twendt]

Yes, you can feed the mice. I've not done it on purpose, but my hens certainly love too! Here is a photo of my hen "the Other Chicken" with a mouse that she caught. The whole flock was after her.
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VELOCIRAPTOR!!!

 

[Alanzs]

I have to many mice and other rodents around my house. So, today I set some mouse traps to see if I could get rid of some. I have a question though:

Is it ok to give the dead mice to the chicken to eat? Will it hurt them? Thanks!
- Clucky

P.S. > I caught 2 tonight!! Only a few hours after the traps were set.

Go for it. Chickens are omnivorous and if you throw it down, they'll probably get it.