This chicken is a gluttonous dinosaur

[RoyalChick]

Some gluttony here.

And here (cheeseburger).

 

[Buckeye Amy]

Some gluttony here.

And here (cheeseburger).
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Oh my! I'm glad mine aren't the only mouse-eating dinosaurs!

What's that songbird in the background? I don't recognize it. It's lovely whatever it is.

 

[RoyalChick]

Oh my! I'm glad mine aren't the only mouse-eating dinosaurs!

What's that songbird in the background? I don't recognize it. It's lovely whatever it is.

Sorry, no idea. I am hopeless at bird song identification.
I didn’t get video of my dinosaurs eating baby mice out of a nest like they were popcorn.
Must have been a dozen of them and they were gone in seconds!

 

[Buckeye Amy]

Sorry, no idea. I am hopeless at bird song identification.
I didn’t get video of my dinosaurs eating baby mice out of a nest like they were popcorn.
Must have been a dozen of them and they were gone in seconds!

Well at least they're good pest removers!

 

[Goosebaby]

A couple weeks back as I was moving a tarp I looked down to see that I had uncovered a big worm, not an unusual occurrence normally…until the fact that it was oddly curled made me take a second glance.
The moment my brain registered the fact that I was looking at a snake and not a huge worm one of my drakes “Truffle” caught site of it, bore down and snapped up the forbidden earthworm and immediately took off running.

I took off after him, watching the snake wriggling from his beak, his little feather butt wiggling away from me at Mach 10 duck speed. I managed to catch him and get the snake away right before the poor snake went down the hatch.
Lucky me it was an Oregon worm snake so non venomous. I may have overreacted somewhat but earlier that day one of my other ducks “Estella” had eaten another kind of forbidden earthworm, in her case an enormous centipede with unfortunate results.
Normally when ducks or other birds eat centipedes they usually don’t have a reaction, I’m assuming because they know to crush the head with their beaks to avoid the venomous bite, but Estella was just about 2 months old so she swallowed that wiggly bitey stingy b&$4!#€3 whole. It must have stung her the way down because within 10 minutes she lost balance, then lost the ability to hold her head up. She remained in a catatonic state for about 3 hours before thankfully recovering.

 

[townchicks]

Lizards are a popular snack here. The keep away game always has me in stitches.

 

[Labsandchickens8]

I have a less gross story but it entertained me: I have 10 hens - 8 large and 2 Polish.bi was digging in the dirt in my bed right outside the run and found a fat worm. I stopped it up, opened the gate and called the girls. My favorite, a Speckled Sussex, scarfed it instantly, probably because she's always right next to me. I went back to work, found another one and decided to try and share with another chicken. I dumped it down in front of them but they blinked at me for a split second - long enough for Louisa to again swoop in and slurp the big fat worm down. Third time i thought surely the other chickens understand what's going on, but no - despite my best efforts she still got it.
3 big fat worms in 3 minutes. Everyone else just stood there watching.

 

[Labsandchickens8]

*scooped it up

 

[Ponypoor]

A couple weeks back as I was moving a tarp I looked down to see that I had uncovered a big worm, not an unusual occurrence normally…until the fact that it was oddly curled made me take a second glance.
The moment my brain registered the fact that I was looking at a snake and not a huge worm one of my drakes “Truffle” caught site of it, bore down and snapped up the forbidden earthworm and immediately took off running.

I took off after him, watching the snake wriggling from his beak, his little feather butt wiggling away from me at Mach 10 duck speed. I managed to catch him and get the snake away right before the poor snake went down the hatch.
Lucky me it was an Oregon worm snake so non venomous. I may have overreacted somewhat but earlier that day one of my other ducks “Estella” had eaten another kind of forbidden earthworm, in her case an enormous centipede with unfortunate results.
Normally when ducks or other birds eat centipedes they usually don’t have a reaction, I’m assuming because they know to crush the head with their beaks to avoid the venomous bite, but Estella was just about 2 months old so she swallowed that wiggly bitey stingy b&$4!#€3 whole. It must have stung her the way down because within 10 minutes she lost balance, then lost the ability to hold her head up. She remained in a catatonic state for about 3 hours before thankfully recovering.

Holy Dinah! Glad she was ok!!!

 

[Ponypoor]

I have a less gross story but it entertained me: I have 10 hens - 8 large and 2 Polish.bi was digging in the dirt in my bed right outside the run and found a fat worm. I stopped it up, opened the gate and called the girls. My favorite, a Speckled Sussex, scarfed it instantly, probably because she's always right next to me. I went back to work, found another one and decided to try and share with another chicken. I dumped it down in front of them but they blinked at me for a split second - long enough for Louisa to again swoop in and slurp the big fat worm down. Third time i thought surely the other chickens understand what's going on, but no - despite my best efforts she still got it.
3 big fat worms in 3 minutes. Everyone else just stood there watching.

Early bird gets the worm

So they say !!!