Any harm feeding chicken dead mice?

[Den in Penn]

lol... this might be the most bizarre/macabre thread ever

Haven't been on here long have you. There was a thread just a bit ago about someone cooking mice for the chickens.

 

[RonC]

I instantly remembered that post myself when I started reading this. A chicken will kill a mouse in a second and doubt they would hesitate to eat it too.

 

[ONSTAD1]

Heh

 

[jmagill]

I don't have a mouse problem in the chicken house or yard. They gobble them up.

 

[supaflyz]

I remembered my aunt was taking out an old fence. There was a bunch of baby rats that ran out which the cat manage to captured. My aunt put on some gloves and just scoop them up with a shovel. The chicken just pecked them to death. They like to play with their food similar to how orcas killed dolphins. It was very gruesome scene. Sorry for the detailed description lol.

 

[donrae]

I'd been thinking of starting a thread just like this. We're having trouble getting a regular food supply for honey's snake and have raised mice before. I'd thought about giving the extras to the chickens, I just don't know if they'll eat them thawed. I tossed a freshly dead snake in the run and they checked it out but didn't eat it. I have seen them devour a nest of pinkies we found once in the coop, and watching a hen run around with a full grown mouse trying to swallow it while the rest of the flock chased her was priceless! She's pause, re-adjust her grip in her beak, and THWACK bang it against a tree. Run off again before anyone could catch her, the pause and THWACK again, Did that four or five times and finally just up ended and down the hatch! We joked about that hen tenderizing her meat!

 

[ONSTAD1]

You all are bursting my chicken panacea bubble!?!?!?!

 

[Achickenwrangler#1]

You should see what they do to baby birds that fall out of the nest. Maybe that's why broody hens are so protective....I would think they'd prefer fresh over frozen, I know I would, wouldn't you? Live mice would be much sportier.

 

[7quails3chicken]

You should see what they do to baby birds that fall out of the nest. Maybe that's why broody hens are so protective....I would think they'd prefer fresh over frozen, I know I would, wouldn't you? Live mice would be much sportier.

Yes I have a huge tree in my back yard,baby birds always fall out in the spring time. I used to save them and set them free when they were able to fly, but not any more now my chicken get them before I do, it's like they just wait under the tree waiting for baby birds, oh well extra protein is what I say and it was really hard taking care of those bird's LOL ^o^ "CHICKENS IS RAPTORS" LOL

 

[JoePa]

And I thought I was nuts -