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Chickens and chipmunks

Post by KimChick » Tue Jun 19, 2018 5:14 pm

Do chickens ever pounce on chipmunks? I thought they would. But today, I witnessed a chipmunk approach the rooster, stop about 3 ft away, then go in between and past about 10 hens. Not one of the birds was alarmed, and not one did anything.

Best Answer by WLLady » Wed Jun 20, 2018 8:38 am
yeah, mice and chipmunks are carriers of mites. oh yay.
you need a good cat....lol. mine will travel acres away to hunt chipmunks. they even drove the squirrels off the area that's not field at my farm!

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Re: Chickens and chipmunks

Post by labradors » Tue Jun 19, 2018 5:39 pm

My chickens allowed a chippie to go into the coop and eat their food :(.

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Re: Chickens and chipmunks

Post by Happy » Tue Jun 19, 2018 6:56 pm

I’ve had a battle with chipmunks for the past two years. My chicks will chase them (as a game) my adults ignore them completely...even when they go in the coop 🤬
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Re: Chickens and chipmunks

Post by KimChick » Tue Jun 19, 2018 8:24 pm

Oh great. Where is their raptor behavior when you really need it? They probably thank the chippies for cleaning up all their laying mash mess of flicked out leavings.
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Re: Chickens and chipmunks

Post by thegawd » Tue Jun 19, 2018 10:11 pm

lets not forget that chipmunks are still rodents that can carry and transmit disease. we dont want them in our coops any more than we want rats. I seem to recall possibly O Shamo's chasing down and eating rodents whole. ;-)

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Re: Chickens and chipmunks

Post by Ontario Chick » Tue Jun 19, 2018 10:36 pm

From the look of him I would assume once the chipmunk population is decimated they start hunting house pets and eventually humans ?
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Re: Chickens and chipmunks

Post by Happy » Wed Jun 20, 2018 8:21 am

@thegawd I totally understand the disease concern. I think chipmunks are cute and all but not near my coop. I'm about to wage all out war. I'm convinced they are the reason that I had such battles with mites this spring. They have dug under every thing. All of my carefully buried welded wire around bottom of coop/pen. Tunnels everywhere that start 8-10 feet away from coop and pop up in the pen, under the coop. I'm going crazy! My advise @KimChick is that if you see chipmunks getting cozy near your coop then get rid of them fast before they decide that it's a nice place to live!
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Re: Chickens and chipmunks

Post by WLLady » Wed Jun 20, 2018 8:38 am

yeah, mice and chipmunks are carriers of mites. oh yay.
you need a good cat....lol. mine will travel acres away to hunt chipmunks. they even drove the squirrels off the area that's not field at my farm!
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Re: Chickens and chipmunks

Post by Killerbunny » Wed Jun 20, 2018 12:44 pm

I miss our "not a bobcat"!
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Re: Chickens and chipmunks

Post by KimChick » Wed Jun 20, 2018 4:44 pm

WLLady wrote:
Wed Jun 20, 2018 8:38 am
yeah, mice and chipmunks are carriers of mites. oh yay.
you need a good cat....lol. mine will travel acres away to hunt chipmunks. they even drove the squirrels off the area that's not field at my farm!
How many cats do you have?
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