Scorpions, centipedes, and spiders

[Tonyroo]

I'm always amazed how my chickens have such a radar for scorpions, centipedes, and spiders they sure love eatting them. It's interesting to watch them tackle them even though some maybe slightly bigger than 2 to 3 inches long.

Just wondered if other chicken owners ever witnessed there hunting prowess?

 

[sourland]

It's the Velociraptor DNA that they retain.

 

[AllenK RGV]

I wish my chicken were better at scorpion hunting. They just do not do a good job at digging them out. I can still go blacklight 20 per night 3 years after introducing them(chicken) here.

 

[chickenhappy1233]

my bantams hunt snakes in the summer, when we had him i caught my tiny white cochin cockerel swallowing a twitching 12 inch garter snake. it amazes me what these tiny birds can eat. since then they have eaten many more

 

[BlueBaby]

I seen one of the hen's that I had before even swallow a lizard. The Silver Grey Dorking's that I have are always digging and looking for bug's. They will even eat those earwig bug's, and the black ant's. I wouldn't free-range the Dorking's though, as I don't think they would move away from any predator's.

 

[ChickensInNM]

I'm always amazed how my chickens have such a radar for scorpions, centipedes, and spiders they sure love eatting them. It's interesting to watch them tackle them even though some maybe slightly bigger than 2 to 3 inches long.

Just wondered if other chicken owners ever witnessed there hunting prowess?

I didn't know they could eat poisonous things. As I was cleaning the coop today, I lifted a board, and this 5 inch centipede came wriggling out, but man, they are QUICK!! I only killed half of it .

 

[Tonyroo]

Have your chickens around you when your lifting up boards, rocks, etc. They'll get free protein in the yard.

 

[Raptor Chicken]

I had read online that slugs were GTG. I also read that they instinctively know what they can and can't eat.

Last week I found ginormous slug in our water softening hut and brought it out to the extended run and dropped it in the yard.

They all ran right up to it, looked and I guess smelled it, and then walked off.

I tossed it in the front yard.