Mousers?

[Painted Calls]

I've had Silkies that were great at catching and eating mice. I've also had a guinea that loved them. She was fantastic at catching them. Then the chase always started with the chickens. Too funny to watch them play "keep away". One would manage to snatch it and then the chase was on again.

 

[HeatherKellyB]

I know Buckeye and Saipan have this reputation, I ordered some chicks of both breeds to see how they are.

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Buckeyes are one breed that I've read about being good for mice eradicating

 

[HaappyHenhouse]

My sapphire gems LOVE a good game of keep away. Frogs toads and slithery baby snakes have also been snatched up and dispatched by the flock

 

[Isadora]

My sapphire gems LOVE a good game of keep away. Frogs toads and slithery baby snakes have also been snatched up and dispatched by the flock

One of my sapphire gems is notorious for raidng mice nests. Apparently baby mice are a delicacy.

 

[Ascholten]

One reason they may dig along the tunnels is because it is pre dug so a lot easier to get at, as Id imagine the moles would eat anything the girls are looking for as well. On that though, eating moles, hmm I wish I could breed a chicken that it's favorite meal was moles, now THAT would be a billion dollar seller right there! I can picture a chicken chasing a mole down a foot wide mole hole heh.

aaron

 

[Quatie]

I don't have chickens, but my neighbor does. He killed a mole in a trap. He set it on the ground, not really intending to feed it to the chickens. They took that guy and tore it to shreds. They are a smaller breed of chicken too.

 

[Auntiejessi3]

My Welsummer will kill just about anything! Last spring we had a surplus of frogs, a few little frogs that all the ladies would eat, and some large ones that my Welsummer would grab and pound into the ground over and over to rip chunks off of. After we moved onto our new piece of property she discovered the field mice and now they are her new victims this is a pic of her with a frog, she wouldn't let me get very close

 

[Ascholten]

Wow, now that is a big frog !! I see mine with lizards and stuff that can kind of go down the throat with a little help, but THAT THING?? it's going to take a ton of tearing apart. Amazing.

Aaron

 

[Auntiejessi3]

Wow, now that is a big frog !! I see mine with lizards and stuff that can kind of go down the throat with a little help, but THAT THING?? it's going to take a ton of tearing apart. Amazing.

Aaron

She's a little freak, lol! Me and DH just sat there watching her beat it and eat it It really was amazing

 

[Ascholten]

Oh I seen two go at a larger mouse once. Originally there were 4 at it but the other 2 got tired of the chase, so there was only Big Red (who will never E V E R give up when it comes to a snack!!) and Midnight, tearing this thing to pieces. I just walked away, I didn't need to watch that, I already knew the outcome. Just please poop it out BEFORE you roost for the night, I don't want to have to be the one who has to clean THAT up !

Aaron