The Poultry Keeper

chicken1 · Joined: 13 Feb 2007 Posts: 41 Location: lincolnshire

Am I seeing things or did I see one of my girls eat a mouse today? Shocked

They dont do that do they?

CP · Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 8:50 pm Post subject:

Yes they can do. And frogs, toads, etc as well! Shocked

Spana · Joined: 30 Apr 2005 Posts: 2299 Location: North Cornwall

Yep, and frogs Laughing

ChuckChuck · Joined: 23 Jun 2007 Posts: 48

Wow I never knew that. I have a few frogs living in my garden, they only tend to come out at night though so the chickens will be in bed by then lol

chicken1 · Joined: 13 Feb 2007 Posts: 41 Location: lincolnshire

Oh my god! Eeergh. theres a lot of baby frogs in our garden at the moment! Well, thanks, you learn something every day! Confused

mcleod-girls · Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 1:17 am Post subject:

could that explain a much smaller rodent problem around here this last winter? we thought the cats had been working overtime!

milkmaid · Joined: 19 Apr 2005 Posts: 7424 Location: isle of lewis

one of my cats caught a mouse the other day tried to bring it in doors and got mugged by a maran Rolling Eyes

jenny · Joined: 17 Jun 2006 Posts: 107 Location: Norfolk

I found one of my bantams running around with a dead mouse, obviously freshly killed. The others were chasing her and grabbed it when possible trying to swallow it, but in the end they found it too much to cope with and abandoned it!! They've caught 2 or 3 I think. The LF will pull one to bits between them... looks very odd seeing a hen running about with a pink foot sticking out of her beak!!!!

chicken_house_man · Joined: 15 Apr 2005 Posts: 129 Location: Brynmawr

mouse to nothing in about 30 sec!

Auntie Noo · Joined: 30 Jan 2007 Posts: 622 Location: Guildford

I reckon mine would eat anything that got near their food!!!

JUSOLLY · Joined: 04 Feb 2007 Posts: 48 Location: Kent

That figures, I saw a mouse in the hen run a while ago and they all ganged up and chased it whilst the cockrel was crowing furiously, I thought they may have been scared but clearly they fancied it for lunch !

sasha.p · Joined: 04 Sep 2005 Posts: 502 Location: gwent

we were shockedthe one day we went to clean our chooks house out and there was a huge frog in there Shocked

im not sure if it hopped up the ladder by itself or if the girls dragged it in but it was dead not marked in any way though,but i did not know they eat mice eeeww

CP · Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 12:08 pm Post subject:

Mine regularly raid our pond for the water snails & also tadpoles if they can catch them. If they don't get them all there's the baby frogs later on!

kated · Joined: 01 Nov 2006 Posts: 2089 Location: norfolk

My garden is frog and toad-opilis this year. It is difficult to put one foot in front of the other without stepping on baby frogs and toads. Many of them seem intent on committing hari kiri by hopping into the hens' runs. My jap bantam's crop was fat with squigginess last night and she wasn't particularly hungry for her corn......!