They ate a mouse!

[BelovedBirds]

Welcome to the club!

 

[BelovedBirds]

Honestly you should be proud, I love my free pest control

I'm not complaining.... just giving Dougie a hard side eye.

 

[fluffycrow]

I'm not complaining.... just giving Dougie a hard side eye.

Tell her she did a good job from me you might not know it now, but I bet that rodent was evil

 

[BelovedBirds]

Tell her she did a good job from me you might not know it now, but I bet that rodent was evil

It was probably trying to eat her food. She was simply taking back what was hers

 

[DukesDucks]

How do they manage to digest the skull and bones?? Do they just??
You know what? Not going to ask.

Mine have not had a problem after eating mice, frogs, and snakes. Imagine the size of the bones in a mouse. Not much bigger than the duck chow, oyster grit, or some of the treats they enjoy. At least they are not puking it back up in tidy masses like owls.

 

[ruthhope]

I found a dense wet clump of fur, today, that's why I'm curious. It was next to the water bucket but definitely wasn't there this morning
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About an inch long or so?
No clue where else it could be from...

When my son found a rat's nest in a tire in his shed, there was an unholy commotion as his female ducks fought with each other over eating the rat babies. His muscovy got he first one and was initially chased round the garden until a pekin had the sense to go back and look where the muscovy had found the baby rat.

 

[Miss Lydia]

I witnessed my chicken grab a mouse one evening she ran in the coop with it in her beak. I am thinking yuck I’m going to have to pick up the remains. Went in and evidentially she swallowed it right down there wasn’t a trace anywhere. I had a vision of her tossing it into the air and it landing in her mouth head first then down the gullet! My Muscovy did get mouse babies when I was cleaning out the shed they just ate them right up. Moral of the story don’t fall down unconscious in your poultry yard. There may not be any trace of you left.