What strange things do your chickens eat? Chat thread

[Chicken Chiquita]

My chickens will find and eat dead mice (see pics). They had a good 10 minute chase trying to eat one the other day .
Here she is eating part of one:

Here is one of my others running away with it:


What strange things do your chickens eat?

 

[Chickenlover0810]

my hens have eaten toads, mice and even snakes

 

[cluckmecoop7]

Mine have eaten mice, almost a huge toad, and.....hmm, I'll think....

 

[Chicken Chiquita]

Thats SO gross/fascinating!

 

[cluckmecoop7]

Thats SO gross/fascinating!

I know!

 

[Chicken Chiquita]

Mine once pecked out one of my earrings, and tried to eat it! She failed.

 

[PioneerChicks]

Weird!

Mine like to eat cat food, which I strongly discourage, and my newly hatched chicks like to peck each others toes if that counts!

 

[Chicken Chiquita]

I've painted my nails a few times to see their reaction, they were very confused.
Anyone else done this?

 

[cluckmecoop7]

No, I don't paint my nails. But one time I was wearing flip flops and they went crazy for my toes! You can guess what happened - I went running into the house and put on shoes.

 

[Kessel23]

Mine have eaten all sorts of interesting stuff, or attempted to. Weirdest was a brown bat, idk if they found it dead or what but I came out and one was running around with it and everyone was chasing. Once when I was pretty young I was going all around the farm yard catching little snakes and putting them in a bucket and I placed it down by the coop and was talking to my dad and a chicken jumped in and started eating.