Weird things your chooks have eaten

Big_Dave · **Posted:** Sun Apr 17, 2011 7:10 pm

I'm not lying, one of my chooks just ate a snake! That's right, a bloody SNAKE!

It was about a foot long and very thin, probably a local whipsnake! I called to my wife to grab the camera but before I had a chance it had swallowed it!

Talk about role reversal!

Jaymie · **Posted:** Sun Apr 17, 2011 8:09 pm

our chickens LURVE styrofoam. They have probably eaten about 20 boxes in the last couple of years.
there is no way we can grow vegies in foam boxes.

Axl · **Posted:** Sun Apr 17, 2011 8:17 pm

one of our Ducks was seen eating a frog the other week, but chooks seem to love skinks and lizards as well!

(they also eat teh dog poo as it is swept off the verandah

dufflight · **Posted:** Sun Apr 17, 2011 9:09 pm

I throw mice to them instead of flushing the little guys. They also make quick work of any birds that fall out of the palm tree or a sparrow that gets a little too much sun. Frogs they will fight over. And soil, cos it has to be going somewhere. :crazy:

Simo · **Posted:** Sun Apr 17, 2011 9:25 pm

+1 for mice,

I bit off subject but a friend once saw a horse eat a dead duck! :shock:

earthbound · **Posted:** Sun Apr 17, 2011 9:28 pm

Yep, mice are always good fun.. Worst thing I saw was eating maggots out of an injured chooks wound... :spew:

Burnsy · **Posted:** Mon Apr 18, 2011 3:00 pm

A biscuit............ out of my daughters mouth........not a protruding piece but a chewed lump that was in her mouth. She is understandably a little gun shy around them now :scared2:

skipd · **Posted:** Mon Apr 18, 2011 9:47 pm

Jaymie wrote:

our chickens LURVE styrofoam. They have probably eaten about 20 boxes in the last couple of years.
there is no way we can grow vegies in foam boxes.

Same here they love it.

Axl · **Posted:** Mon Apr 18, 2011 10:31 pm

we occasionally find the carcasses (picked clean) of the little peaceful doves that come in to eat the grain, they sometimes get caught in the maeh, so the chooks eat them too :scared2:

bushy · **Posted:** Mon Oct 17, 2011 12:11 pm

I used to have a heap of wrecked cars at my farm and the chooks used to run over to where they were after being let out of their yard and eat the shattered glass from the windows.
Would find in the compost after a while these little cubes of frosted glass with all the sharp edges rounded off.

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