Whats the weirdest thing your chickens have eaten or tried to eat??

[heathersue]

My silkie ate the diamond out of my mom's wedding ring! Our Isa Brown has ate a small trim nail and my daughter's earring, which she plucked right out of her ear. Both of these things occured several months ago and they seem okay.

 

[chickenlover237]

one of mine tried to eat a grass snake that was over three feet long whole!

 

[copperbob]

Some years ago while my hens were cleaning out the margin along the edge of the grass I saw a frog disappear down her gullet. For about 10 minutes afterwards her crop was cavorting into some rather strange shapes!

 

[K-12 Chickens]

Oh! Let's see here...

Small pieces of plastic (the color red is a favorite)
BB gun pellets
Frogs
Snails (whole, shell and all)
Voles, mice and other various small mammals
Styrofoam
Paper plates

 

[weezilgirl]

Copperhead snake babies. Last summer 4 hens ate 8 little ones. The best thing they eat is ticks. We have a tick free yard now.

 

[cheeka]

lol K-12 Chickens... paper plates are a given aren't they... especially when they get soggy with the watermelon or whatever yummy delight has seeped juices into it... I use the uncoated plates so I don't clog them up with wax... lol, and pick up the remnants later... same with coffee filters ~ mine seem to enjoy the used coffee grounds quite a bit

I've been very fortunate, I dropped a few lock washers when building the enclosure, found most of them... and worried about the 3 that I didn't find... but... as the grass disappeared, I found them all, uneaten... phew!

 

[mrtinman]

This is a great thread !! i'm still laughing at some of the chicken dinners !!

Mine have spent an afternoon pecking at a sprinkler head that was stuck up ...

 

[Spikes Chooks]

A cigarette butt someone had stubbed out, put in her pcoket then it fell out. UghHHH!!! Worse, Sylvia, the Silver Campine which grabbed it, ran off as if it was such an exciting treat that all the other girls chased her trying to grab it. So, down it went even though I had joined the chase.....

I was very worried and did a search on this forum and found others had had a similar experience with no harm done. Two weeks on and she is perfectly well, but I'm waiting for a smoker to visit and she siddles up for a nicotine fix!

 

[chickenlover89]

mine always eat...airsoft pellets (little plastic bebe's) and paper towels, and they always try to eat their METAL FEEDER! (not the food in it sometimes!)

 

[cheeka]

my RIR at about 2 weeks of age, flew over and grabbed the lit ember from the end of my friends cigarette. she squaked loudly, flew away and won't come near smokers to this day. smart girl, learns from her mistakes! her beak had a smudge but wasn't burned