jennyeatworld Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 Hi, Had a bit of a rude awakening this morning. We have a cat who is a keen hunter, and last night it caught - but did not kill or harm - a baby bird. We managed to put the fledgling in a safe place in the garden, an old blackbird's nest. The chick must have got out of it though, for this morning we found the poor thing being pecked to death by our chickens. Is this vicious behaviour usual in chickens, and has anyone else had a similar experience? Jenny Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christian Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 Hello Jenny and welcome to the forum Yes, unfortunately chickens do eat baby birds, frogs, mice or anything else they can get their beaks on. Not nice, but part of nature I guess. There were a couple of posts about this last week but I can't find them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jennyeatworld Posted June 2, 2008 Author Share Posted June 2, 2008 Thanks for the speedy reply! I did have a bit of a browse for a similar query on the forum but also couldn't find anything! I'm going to have to get to work on my profile thingy, I want little pictures of chickens and eglus too!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christian Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 No problem Jenny Take a look at this - http://club.omlet.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=21966 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jess Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 Yes I'm afraid to say my speckeldy ate a baby thrush once and it was very sad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiggy Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 I raked out the run at the weekend & found a few small bones, we never feed meat to our girls so don't know where they have come from, they could have dug them up but I've a feeling that some unfortunate mice have dared venture in Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
esta Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 the same happened to me...I went down to see the ladies to find them pulling apart a mouse, i went to getit off them but it was too late. They have also had a frog. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chickaboo Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 Ruby used to eat frogs - whole Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chickvic Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 Mine have eaten frogs too - whole Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chickybaby Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 I caught Bunty attacking a pigeon one day. God knows how she managed to get hold of it but there were feathers everywhere....the pigeons, not Bunty's. Anyway I managed to grab hold of the pigeon and kept her quiet for a few days until she was able to fly again. My chickens do run at the garden birds to scare them away so I think there must have been something wrong with the pigeon for it not to fly away quickly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*mummy_hen* Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 We have frogs that live in our dry stone wall and when it gets damp (has been a lot of that recently) they can venture out a little. Yesterday they girls were out wandering and had to rescue about 4 frogs from beady little eyes and beaks making their way over to them!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rachel33pink Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 Gosh, I can't believe they can eat frogs whole I am learning so much and I haven't even got my chickens yet! (I'm not sure my signature thing is right yet -I've managed the pink eglu but not the chickens -I'll keep trying!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 Not easy to contemplate, but nature is cruel sometimes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jane 20 Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 We even found one of our newbies with a baby chick in her mouth yesterday being persued by the other two. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jennyeatworld Posted June 3, 2008 Author Share Posted June 3, 2008 Looks like our cat has competition in the hunting arena then!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
