One of my hens caught a toad and the entire flock fought over it all day. One of them suddenly picked it up and ate it almost whole! I'm not even sure it was dead!
I had golden comets once, a sexlink hybrid, supposed to be super layers. I was not impresed. Beautiful birds but they didn't lay anywere near as well as e RIReds I had before them. Then they started eating eggs. Tried golf balls and fake eggs in the nests, but they wouldn't stop.
OFF WITH THEIR HEADS! (Whats that saying from anyway, I can't remember?)
We live by an open river basin filled with Coyotes. Every once and awhile I have to shoot one that tries to get in the chicken yard. I butcher it and cook it tender and chop it into chicken size bites and the girls (and roosters) gooble it up! Ironic isn't it, chickens eatin Coyote!
I was working in the garden cutting up expanded polystyrene for packing when I noticed that the chucks were eating the bits which flew off from the table....Ugh.!
It can't be good for them and it certainly doesn't taste nice as I got a mouthful as well....
Other than that I've watched them eat snails, slugs and kill and eat a nest of mice. Oh and they are very partial to the Cool Mix for the horses and even poke their heads into the horses buckets' and try to snatch a mouthful while the horses are feeding.
Wow nice pics. I once caught one of my chickens dragging around a lizard. She just kept slapping it on the ground. As if she was trying to tenderize it. I swore I heard the lizard squeaking for dear life.