There are some things about chickens I don't tell my city friends

[ChickieBooBoo]

My ducks love mice and rodents! They catch them, bring them to the kiddy pool and "swim" with them for awhile before swallowing them whole!

 

[sheila3935]

My Buff Orpington mix ate a mouse whole one day. She was unning through the yard with this mouse hanging out of her mouth and I am chasing her trying to get her to drop it. They dont respond to drop like the way a dog does.

Any way before I could get to her she swallowed it whole and it was a good size mouse. I like you was worried would she be able to digest it but she did. Sassy doesnt let too many mice get past her.

 

[Kaelinstorm]

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Nope doesnt harm the chickens or their laid eggs. Its what chickens to. They will protect themselves the best they can. And in the process they get a nice meaty meal

 

[Kaelinstorm]

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Oh Sheila!!! I LOVE your Roo icon! Id love to see a larger picture of that handsome guy!

 

[yinepu]

my signature says it all...lol

 

[dretd]

My daughter was put off our Welsummer's eggs for a full 2 months last summer when we were cleaning and exposted a mouse nest of pinkies. The girls (yup, agree with the Velociraptors sig) tore after them and Summer snarfed down a still squeeking baby in front of my Vegetarian daughter.

I also set some mouse traps around the coop a while back and couldn't find one of them the next morning. I thought maybe it caught a tail and got dragged off. Nope. I found it later in the day as Splash was walking around with a mouse in her beak that was still in the trap. She did not want to give it up!

My motto is 'don't ask don't tell' or my daughter would never eat any of the eggs again

 

[mrpekinduck]

My ducks kill mice ants and sizeable fish.

 

[EMaker]

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I won't allow mine to torture and kill rodents. I don't know if those rodents have recently dined on poison, and I don't want my chickens to die from secondary poisoning. Even if the amount of poison was too little to kill my chickens, I certainly don't want to eat eggs that have even a minute residue of mouse/rat poison in them. Nope.

 

[secuono]

If the snake bites the bird...bad news. But if the bird gets the snake w/o getting bit, no issue. Well, eating the head would be bad. They are poisonous after all and the glands on his head behind the eyes hold the venom. Wild animals that do eat poisonous snakes chew off the heads and eat everything else. Baby snakes are not experienced enough to know how much venom to use for what size animal and will use all of it. Very bad, worse getting bit by a baby snake than an adult...

 

[Ole rooster]

I've not had a mouse problem yet, but my dog killed a mole this morning. I threw it in with the chickens just to see what they would do. Well they went after that thing like they had been attacked trained. They hammered, pecked, slung, pulled, and I don't know whatall, till they were sure it was dead, then went back to their everyday pecking the ground thing. I finally threw it out. I didn't know how nasty these chicken could be.