The Heritage Rhode Island Red Site

[cmom]

I wish mine would...

 

[melroseladi]

I wish mine would...

Ditto!

Penny

 

[lualshannon]

Seems like this thread has sorta become quiet, must be mowing grass, baling hay etc. My question to throw out there is do your chickens like to eat fire ants, I have one that is obsessed with it, a strange sight to behold.

My chickens eat ants as well as spiders; but, ours are not fire ants. We live in N.Ca. and do not have fire ants. Ours are busy all day long eating just about everything that they can swallow, and never have to worry about bugs, slugs and snails eating the vegetables or the fruit. Unfortunately, the the tiny, cute lizards are in the manue as well.

 

[redrstr29]

LIZARDS!! Id love to see that, how great!!!,,,,,,mine eat wasps

 

[har]

I like to watch mine fight over a small snake and of course mice

 

[Jharper]

I like to watch mine fight over a small snake and of course mice

X2. Mine scratch up moles half the time! LOL!!

 

[NestingHillsSC]

I was trying to capture a vid of my biggest roo. There almost 4 months now. Of course again the lighting from the phone camera sucks, but you get the point. Still hard to capture and really compare him with the rest of the flock.

 

[NestingHillsSC]

This one is a bit shorter but was trying to get the type of some of the hens. One looks good. Not sure about the other one. She looks kinda pointy to me.

 

[monnie662]

I bet that is strange. Don't the ants bite her and stop her from eating them?

She scratches the nest with her feet, eats ants and eggs, scratches the ants off her face with her feet and goes again.

 

[MagicChicken]

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You could make a small fortune renting her out to folks with ant problems. Even better, get her to teach the other chickens how to eat ants. I sense a new business opportunity here...