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[Scotty]

I've just spent 45 mins chasing a chicken round the backgarden as she had found a slow worm... she was determined to eat it in fact once I finally caught her I pulled it from her mouth.... HORRID experience probably for both of us!

 

Has anybody heard of a hen eatting a slow worm and would she have been alright should she have managed to complete her meal?

[Egluntyne]

Another thread on this subject **here**

[Guest]

We saw our chooks eat one last year - no ill effects noted

[LaPoule]

We saw our chooks eat one last year - no ill effects noted

 

...not for the chook maybe - can't imagine the slow worm felt very well

[Scotty]

Our hens found a nest of slow worms, they loved them... poor things. I also tried to release the worm from the hens jaws.... after chasing frantically round the garden, with the children screaming!!! but once the tail fell off its was good night wormy... Got to say the hens didn't suffer one bit. it wasn't such a good ending for the slow worm.

 

Scotty

[Guest]

You have to watch hens with slow worms because they are an endangered species.

 

Naughty hens tut tut.

[Burtie14]

Oh no! I used to keep slow worms as a young lad - I think he was called Sid (until 'he' gave birth to hundreds of little slowies!) He kept escaping from the aquarium I kept him in - a real houdini.

 

Very cute with their little blinking eyes - had no idea they were endangered now. Try to protect them from the naughty old chooks.

[Guest]

It's a shame they're endangered but it's because people keep destroying their homes.