would they eat a wild bird?

[janeyo]

This may sound crazy but I am now sure that my chooks have today killed and eaten a wild bird. I have found a great pile of grey and white feathers in a pile in the run.(rather similar to the mess I fnd when one of my cats gets a bird).
I can see no signs of my one white hen moulting, so this must be the only explanation? There are pigeons by the squillion in my garden....

[Scarlet]

Mine had a baby rat this summer - I saw it hanging from its mouth!

[Two_Sheds]

they'll eat anything they can get

[roitelet]

They will, mine had a sparrow that got trapped in the run. Chickens can be nasty!!!!!

[Glutton4...]

Yup, they'd eat it. My Geese eat baby rats too. Revolting little Vultures!

[OverWyreGrower]

Yup, mine have eaten wild birds, rats and a baby wild bunny before now

[mr darcy]

ditto!! dirty beasts!

[Hilary B]

they'll eat anything they can get

Indeed they will!
I would imagine a wild bird must have been cornered/trapped, because normally it would simply escape, but......

[Glutton4...]

Mine actually started eating one of their number, who had died during her afternoon snooze in the sun. They're not as sweet and innocent as they'd have you believe!

[jessmorris]

OMG!!! I had no idea!

[RichmondHens]

We're noticing a lot of dead pigeons round here at the moment, usually underneath trees as though they have just dropped off the branch. Am hoping there isn't a pigeon virus going round as I think they can be passed on to poultry.

[Allotment Nerd]

Mine have made a pretty good meal out of a toad before now. If you ask me all the dinosaurs turned into chickens.

[jessmorris]

OMG!!! I had no idea!

Actually, I'm going mad, I did have an idea that chooks were predatory carnivores - someone told me that her broody (LF) had eaten HER OWN CHICKS !

[petal]

Yes, we had a broody that ate another hens chicks and our lot regularly massacre mice, toads etc etc... One of them ate the cats food once.