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

[Severne]

I feed anything to cooked, picked chicken carcasses to mice to my birds. they LOVE it

 

[4-H chicken mom]

My chickens would also go nuts of mice or anything small that moved, but there is downside for chickens swallowing them whole. I lost one of my hens because she choked to death on a mouse.

Sorry if pic is to graphic.

 

[CCsRanch]

Your chickens need to step up their game.

Wow that's great! Mine sometimes eat what the barn cat leaves behind, but I've never seen them take the whole thing away!

 

[cluckmecoop7]

Why @NJL?

 

[Kris5902]

Hi ~ since you don't know what the mice have been eating, if they have worms, or some other horrible parasite, my vote is NOT to feed the dead to the chickens. Mine hunt and kill their own, play "keep away" and then who knows what happens to the carcasses, but like with deer...never feed it to your dogs, they're infested with worms.

I assume you’re referring to raw deer meat? We eat plenty of venison here and I’ve never seen a worm in the meat. Flat fish on the other hand like Halibut, flounder, sole, *shudder* are a whole other story!

 

[ajackalope]

If the rodent is dead from poison, definitely not. I also wouldn't give any thing that's been dead for a while. It starts to decompose quickly after death. That is for mammals I don't know about bugs. We will take dead mice away from our girls because we do put poison down and can't be sure that said mouse didn't get into it.
That being said my dog likes to eat the dead worms off the driveway after it rains.

 

[spaceylocust]

My cats will only play with mice; the chickens eat them. I showed this video to my cats but they gave it a thumbs down!

 

[LindaApple]

My ladies love mice. It's funny watching them chase a mouse that try to escape from under their feeder. I never knew hens could be so agile and run so fast. The girls also ate snakes. Heck, I just hope I never faint in the coop...

 

[casportpony]

Mine love mice!

 

[WGHowell]

Chickens are like buzzards their just domestic buzzards. Mine will eat anything that don't eat them first, so they have no real enemies. Dogs have been my main problem ,but they have got the message to leave my chickens alone without loss of life to them so far.