geb0205 Posted April 21, 2007 Share Posted April 21, 2007 Does anyone else's chooks eat odd things? My girls found some cardboard today, and subsequently started pecking it and eating it in little strips. Is it just my girls that are odd, or do yours eat odd things too?! (the cardboard HAS been promptly removed...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicola H Posted April 21, 2007 Share Posted April 21, 2007 Mine will try to eat anything they find on the lawn elastic bands and hair bobbles being a favourite, just make sure you don't leave things that could be of harm to them in the garden........... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chocchick Posted April 21, 2007 Share Posted April 21, 2007 yes my dropped hair band Katy likes chewing and insists is a worm. Also heard about brick dust and silicon off a door frame Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura & CTB Posted April 21, 2007 Share Posted April 21, 2007 Yep - my girls decided to eat the silicone off the window and door frames - I had to use the spare roosting bars to block their way and was forever grabbing them and prising silicone lumps from their beaks. Thankfully, the've now got bored with it - (before the windows fell out) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonesyboy27 Posted April 21, 2007 Share Posted April 21, 2007 I'm missing a shoe lace Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bridgy chooks Posted April 21, 2007 Share Posted April 21, 2007 ours found their way into the kitchen once and ate some binliner that was hanging over the bin lid...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrookhamChooks Posted April 22, 2007 Share Posted April 22, 2007 Last week Susannah murdered and ate a mouse. I saw her running around with it, hotly persued by Trinny, and tried to rescue it, but there were two of them and it was impossible to prise it out of a beak and pick it up before the other one had grabbed it ...... I was amazed she could swallow anything that big. Yuck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bridgy chooks Posted April 22, 2007 Share Posted April 22, 2007 Gabbi found a massive spider earlier - she pecked the legs off first and then ran round the garden with the body in her beak which she eventually swallowed after being chased by Maggi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christian Posted April 22, 2007 Share Posted April 22, 2007 Last week Susannah murdered and ate a mouse. Whereas ours woke us up at 2am 'screaming' because a mouse was in the eglu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fish_chickie Posted April 23, 2007 Share Posted April 23, 2007 i was killing rats [with garden forks] in my friends chicken shed...their rhodies pecked at it for ages...i dunno if they ate it or not ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chelsea Posted April 23, 2007 Share Posted April 23, 2007 Last week Susannah murdered and ate a mouse. Whereas ours woke us up at 2am 'screaming' because a mouse was in the eglu hee hee Standing on chairs were they Christian??!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
