would a rabbit kill a chicken?

[oldhenlikesdogs]

I don't think rabbits are rodents.
But yeah, they might look so cute and sweet, but they can also be pretty vicious. I had a pet rabbit that killed and ate our pet guinea pig, so I would think killing a chicken is also a possibility.

 

[Chickassan]

You might have killer buns in your run!
Don't worry too much, it is normally hormone crazy males.
Females will normally only do it if they aren't producing sufficient milk for their kits.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

You might have killer buns in your run!
Don't worry too much, it is normally hormone crazy males.
Females will normally only do it if they aren't producing sufficient milk for their kits.

I do keep some rabbits. We have already butchered some young aggressive males for coming at me, so I'm well aware of how nasty sweet looking bunnies can get. I feel bad for that guinea pig who was living with a serial killer. Lots of does will eat their kits if everything isn't right. I don't let those cute faces fool me.

 

[Chickassan]

Smart! That killer rabbit from the Monty Python film always wanders into my thinking when I see buns in the yard.
I don't keep them anymore, for pretty much the reason you stated. I can't deal with the males! Being charged by a giant poof is not a good time at all.

I do keep some rabbits. We have already butchered some young aggressive males for coming at me, so I'm well aware of how nasty sweet looking bunnies can get. I feel bad for that guinea pig who was living with a serial killer. Lots of does will eat their kits if everything isn't right. I don't let those cute faces fool me.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

Smart! That killer rabbit from the Monty Python film always wanders into my thinking when I see buns in the yard.
I don't keep them anymore, for pretty much the reason you stated. I can't deal with the males! Being charged by a giant poof is not a good time at all.

I still have 7 males. They are more challenging than females with their crazy behaviors, though females get pretty grumpy too at times. I only really like a couple of the males, so their numbers may continue to fall if they don't shape up. I particularly don't care for being peed at. Plus the smell. I have enjoyed the experience of rabbits, but I now see why most people have them once and never again.

 

[Chickassan]

Yep, being peed at is another not so charming feature I don't miss.
Mine girls had a habit of thinking they had kits when they didn't, always fun.
Last straw was when a particularly nasty buck got his testicles caught in some wire and I got bitten trying to free the dummy. Nope, no more buns.

I still have 7 males. They are more challenging than females with their crazy behaviors, though females get pretty grumpy too at times. I only really like a couple of the males, so their numbers may continue to fall if they don't shape up. I particularly don't care for being peed at. Plus the smell. I have enjoyed the experience of rabbits, but I now see why most people have them once and never again.

 

[centrarchid]

We are getting off the path with this old thread. The party that brought subject back up presented evidence that did not involve a chicken at all. Feathers were from a Cardinal and I could see what looked like feather scratches where a raptor used wings to right itself while handling carcass. Evidence was pretty clear.

 

[Chickassan]

Correct, shortly after that post was this one.

Would either a rabbit or a sheep ever partially gnaw on a chicken's foot, whether dead or alive? Any chacce of this whatsoever?

And that is what got posters on the track of vicious rabbits. No doubt the cardinal was not a victim, there was just another question afterward.

 

[centrarchid]

OK then. I have had cattle eat chicks falling into hay pile from nest in loft of barn. It has been documented where deer consumed legs off still living seabird chicks on a island off Scotland.

The deer were operating in totally free-range setting. In confinement, things can get even nastier.

 

[Chickassan]

Any word on why the deer were eating legs? That is curious.

OK then. I have had cattle eat chicks falling into hay pile from nest in loft of barn. It has been documented where deer consumed legs off still living seabird chicks on a island off Scotland.

The deer were operating in totally free-range setting. In confinement, things can get even nastier.