Unable to eat the usual sunnyside-up egg after seeing hen swallow a mouse...

[HKG]

Strange thought, but if you have mice in your coop, they're probably pooping in the chicken feed, which is probably just as gross as her eating the actual mouse.

 

[The Moonshiner]

And just think of where the eggs come out of and eggs are porous so...... HAPPY EATING

 

[Bawkbok]

That kind of makes the omelet I just ate turn in my stomach....

 

[sideyard chick]

Thank you all for your replies! Very interesting and amusing. "Slurping snakes like spaghetti" really made me laugh. I'm getting close to being able to eat a sunny-side up egg, but am currently at the scrambled level.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Circle of life, folks. Circle of life.

 

[Pigeony]

I once saw one of my hens catch and swallow a fledgeling verdin, near whole. I say near whole because she had to rip the wings off to successfully swallow it . Never quite looked at my cuddly lil lapbird the same lol.

 

[WingItRanch]

This thread inspired me to start one specifically for funny stories about how disturbing our sweet little chickens appetites are...join in! https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/this-chicken-is-a-gluttonous-dinosaur.1665744/

 

[KimbosKluckers]

This is so funny. I’ve been dealing with my husband not being able to eat our eggs. Restaurant eggs and store bought are fine but not my fresh ones. He can handle baking with it and very occasionally scrambled but never fried. Only because he had a horrible experience as a kid from a farmer’s egg Even the horror stories I tell him of commercial eggs, bleaching, sitting forever before even being sold etc…nope. I wish he’d overcome this.