Will Eating a Whole Mouse Hurt a Hen?

[rockstar]

The hen ate the whole mouse with one gulp. Will she be able to digest it?

 

[ibpboo]

Should be able to digest it, mine eat mice sometimes. Once the mouse was too big, and it just coughed it back up, yuk!

 

[horsejody]

Chickens love mice. It will be fine.

 

[PineappleMama]

All's I'm Saying

 

[greenfamilyfarms]

I've seen my big Cochin roo chase down a mouse and eat it like that. Despite what some people think, chickens eat more than just vegetables.

 

[dichotomymom]

My oldest hates that ours eat toads. He went from loving the chickens to hating them over that fact. The only concern I can think of is if the mice have gotten into poison.

 

[PineappleMama]

I think of that, and the claws. *shudder* At least frogs don't have claws.

That would just freak me out. I'd be pacing and hoping just like Rockstar seems to be.

 

[dichotomymom]

Think of birds of prey.......they are, only domesticated!

 

[rockstar]

Thanks. I was hoping to get that kind of feedback. Both of my grandmothers had chickens when I was little. I never heard them say anything about chickens eating mice, so I was concerned as to how that gizzard could digest a mouse.

 

[bayouchica]

I've seen mine eat the following & survived

mice
pinky mice
pinky possums

6 inch copperhead