Question Chickens and chipmunks
Chickens and chipmunks
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.
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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!
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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My chickens allowed a chippie to go into the coop and eat their food 
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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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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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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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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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@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
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!
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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I miss our "not a bobcat"!
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