Things That Chicken Eat That Surprised You

[pinkwindsong]

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too funny... I can see them now with the brain freeze

PInk

 

[birdygal]

We had so many eggs laid they were piling up. My husband boiled them and said feed them to your pets. They will eat their own eggs. At least these were unfertilized. They would probably not care either way. Gobbling them down. Ducks would not touch.

 

[birdygal]

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too funny... I can see them now with the brain freeze

PInk

To you both I amhoping for old ice cream to catch them in brain freeze mode now.

 

[mstricer]

Snakes and voles

 

[pinkwindsong]

mine have fought over a field rat my son killed in fact he said they helped him get it out of the garden they chased it away from its hole and he shot it.. he came to show me with four barred rocks trotting at his heals until one jumped straight up and grabbed it from him then the race was on ..oh my gosh it was just crazy how they ripped apart that rat. yuck!!

on the good side they love quiche..

)O(
Pink

 

[Stacykins]

Weirdest thing mine ate were coffee grounds

I always put the coffee grounds from the french press out on the compost heap. And they SWARM me to scarf up what they can before I mix it in with the poo n stuff. I guess they need their morning caffeine fix too.

 

[Achickenwrangler#1]

cig butts. yup..they would pick them up and trying to get them out of their beaks was tough, they'd just swallow them, I noticed the area around the shop and parking was totally clean...I waited, figuring they'd get croupbound and die, but they didn't, I noticed some piles of fluffy poops and they did ok. they must have kicked the habit though cause I noticed butts lying around again and don't seem interested anymore thankfully..

 

[birdygal]

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So funny. You never know. They must like the hyper feeling they get from it.

 

[birdygal]

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That would be gross, but I wish mine would get the field mice stealing their food all the time.

 

[mamachicken888]

We had just put our three week old chicks into their new run so they were exploring every nook and cranny. Well, one of my Red Stars rousted out a huge brown garden spider (at least 3 inches diameter) and went chasing and pecking it across the run. The spider couldn't get away so it tried another strategy - it wrapped itself around my chicks head and hung on for dear life! You should have heard her - she squeeled like the little girl she is and started slamming her beak on the ground trying to "get this thing off me!" Well, she finally got the spider to turn loose but when it ran again, the 20 other chicks was just too much for it and they had it for brunch. But, what a learning experience!