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Why do chickens eat baby mice?

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Protein…not only baby mice. Adults, voles, moles, snakes. On multiple occassions, I have witnessed mice getting in the chicken feed PVC tube…no escape, only to succumb to the hungry chickens below. It is an interesting learned behavior, to quickly empty the feed tube and wait for an exhausted mouse to be consumed. read more

Chickens are omnivores. And like most birds they eat all the time. My chickens have eaten lizards, baby birds, any bug they can run down, and any and all kitchen scraps I give them. Wild chickens are extremely successful in pretty much any environment you find them in, so it stands to reason that they'd be good hunters. read more

Rodents will not only eat chicken feed and contaminate it with their droppings, they can carry fleas, ticks, mites and lice, will kill baby chicks, eat eggs, chew wires and wood, even chew on sleeping chickens' feet and pull out their feathers. read more

When rodents eat feed, they tend to defecate in it. Your chickens may ingest the feces and that can make your flock ill with salmonella or other bacteria. Second, rats will eat eggs and kill young birds. read more

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