Poodlepill
Well-Known Member
I have 35 chickens that free range the pastures along with my 2 mini's. If you have chickens you know that anything and EVERYTHING wants to kill them, so I loose a few each year. Well today I came home and found one chicken dead by the coop, feathers everywhere and one of my mini's looked as it it was eating it?.
I am not too concerned over what may have killed it, I have hawks that take dives at them, I am totally fenced in and if it were a fox it would have taken it with them. Anyway, I am more disturbed buy the fact that the mini was very interested in this dead bird.
I "think" the mini was eating maybe feathers (insides were already eaten but I chased him away and he ran back to it, chased him away again and he ran back to it like it was some great treat (ugh).
I don't think the mini killed it purposely if that were the case, and probably its chicken buddies cannibalized it after it died (they do that, they are savages) I was just really put off by my minis intent on doing "some kind of nibbling or eating of that chicken"
Any thoughts? or similar situations??????
I am not too concerned over what may have killed it, I have hawks that take dives at them, I am totally fenced in and if it were a fox it would have taken it with them. Anyway, I am more disturbed buy the fact that the mini was very interested in this dead bird.
I "think" the mini was eating maybe feathers (insides were already eaten but I chased him away and he ran back to it, chased him away again and he ran back to it like it was some great treat (ugh).
I don't think the mini killed it purposely if that were the case, and probably its chicken buddies cannibalized it after it died (they do that, they are savages) I was just really put off by my minis intent on doing "some kind of nibbling or eating of that chicken"
Any thoughts? or similar situations??????