Just sat at lunchtime at work and a cockerel attacked and ate a mouse!

Never seen it happen before. Always thought that chickens were harmless birds waiting to be barbecued or go into a KFC!

Checked on google and apparently it’s quite common.

Damn.. I thought this was going to be one of those “If you only watch one…” videos! I disappointed.

Always thought that chickens were harmless birds

A lot of birds are very aggressive. They are little feathered dinosaurs after all.

A mate used to keep hens, he put 2 new ones in with the 4 or 5 he already had and the violence and aggression shown by the others was very nasty and not pleasant to watch. They settled down after a while mind and then went back to their normal pecking and scratching the ground stuff.

Ours will eat a full grown slow worm given the opportunity.

the violence and aggression shown by the others was very nasty and not pleasant to watch

That’ll be why people talk about the “pecking order” then.

clucking hell

Always thought that chickens were harmless birds

You thought this :

when this is reality :

Misread title, thought it was Children attacking and eating a mouse 😮

“Always thought that chickens were harmless birds”

That’s exactly what they want you to think. They’re just waiting til they’ve evolved arms and when they do they’ll kill us all. Between now and then they’re just going to dwell how gruesome the killing will be and most importantly who they’ll kill first. Did that chicken see that you saw him? I’d not bother starting reading that new book if he did.

My friend is a deer stalker. When he’s finished skinning and gutting a kill he throws all the yuck to the dogs but his chickens chase the dogs off and go all Hannibal lectern with all the puddings and stringy bits.

They are omnivore. My fokes had some chickens that found a mouse nest, they loved it went mad for them!

Hannibal lectern

😀

^ 🙂

I’ve seen a pheasant trotting along with a mouse dangling from it beak, though it might have stole it because I didn’t see it actually kill the thing.

Sneaky bastard pheasants, always looking at you outta the side of their neck…

At various points our chickens have been spotted eating frogs and mice and they’ll go after sparrows or other birds that venture into their run.

Omnivorous mini-dinosaurs is right.

Hannibal lectern

Bloody phone!

Sneaky bastard pheasants,

Staring in my living room window – casing the joint I reckon.

blimey – how many of the scottish landed gentry do we have on here ?

See what I mean; that weird side-long glare.

Much better on a plate, I reckon.*

*Edit : But after knowing what they feed on I’m a little tentative now…

Nice looking bird.

They’ll peck the eyes right out your f@#£&ng head given the chance.

maccruiskeen – Member

“Always thought that chickens were harmless birds”

That’s exactly what they want you to think. They’re just waiting til they’ve evolved arms and when they do they’ll kill us all.

They are actually waiting for reversed evolution – devolution ?

Nice looking bird.

We call him Stumpy. Walks with a Yardie limp.

blimey – how many of the scottish landed gentry do we have on here ?

Thankfully non of it belongs to me – theres a castle behind those trees and it all belongs to him. Looks nice but the drainage is gubbed so from my window its a bucolic paradise but for them its a practically unmanageable swamp which once they’ve mowed and chased all the leaves around they don’t have a decent view of 🙂