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

[cheeka]

How can you make eggs from paint and styrofoam?

that must be where the plastic colored Easter eggs come from... you should call WalMart, you could make a fortune!

jk

 

[lhousesoccer]

I threw in a filletted fish carcass and they tore it apart. Bones and all. Next time I went fishing I caught a big ugly carp and I threw it in there and they ate the whole thing. Then, I got an idea - I made a cage out of 1/4" welded wire and hung it about 2 feet off the ground in their pen and stuffed another dead carp in there. The flies started laying eggs and pretty soon the whole thing was covered in maggots. When the chickens saw them wriggling around on the fish, they'd jump up to try and get them, and knock the cage, which would make a big fat bunch of maggots drop through the mesh onto the ground. It was a homemade, on-demand, maggot farm and feeder system. Chickens LOVED it. When the maggots were pretty much done, I dumped the fish out and the chickens cleaned the rest of it up. Smells not so great, but my coop is downwind of the house!

 

[cheeka]

Ihousesoccer ~

actually, I want to try that, I get plenty of striper every Spring, and can use the carcasses, and anything else I catch besides the bass, to create a wormy feast... but it will have to wait, too cold now to get a proper rot, and if I could create it, the winter run is right next to the house, not that I have windows open now... but still...peeyew.

 

[Shades of Blue]

I had one of my hens eat the string off of the feed bag once. I didn't know it and only found out because while watching the hens I noticed that every time this one hen walked her head bent down to the ground. I watched her for a few minutes trying to figure out what could be wrong and then walked over to her and caught her. She had the one end of the string wrapped around her one leg.....then she must have ate the other end of the string

So it was on the way through her system far enough that it could not come back out. So every time she walked it made her head bop up and down. Thankfully I seen this and cut the string and unwrapped it off her leg. The rest of it eventually worked it's way out her back door....lol


silly chicken

 

[RyeRanch]

That is awesome-gross, but awesome. I laughed so hard reading that.

 

[Rhode Island]

My chickens are pretty good about eating stuff. Although they usually peck our chives to the ground! We call them our chive chickens
: )

 

[Nutcase]

My chooks LOVE cat biscuits!! Very high in protein they are too. They gobble up anything they can get their claws on: grass, pet food, lizards, frogs, as well as certain things we try to avoid : screws, styrofoam, rabbit poo even! Although is rabbit poo beneficial? What do you think? Rabbits themselves eat it you know!

 

[Rhode Island]

What breed are your chickens!?!?

 

[Nutcase]

You talking to me? My chickens are Highland Browns - you may not have heard of them before

 

[Rhode Island]

Yes i am talking to you. I may have heard the name somewhere. I they supposed to be good layers?