Lol, really Alive?
The carcass thing is big on our farm. The chickens will even risk the ire/agression (which could mean death if they push it far enough) of my dogs. Today, the butcher I get cheap offal from to feed my dogs raw also had a deer head and some carcass bits (spine, some ribs, head, legs, (which I cracked for some heavenly marrow!)) since bow season just started, and I gave a piece to each of the dogs when I got home. The chickens surrounded them immediately and pressured them for any scraps they can get. Sometimes the dogs tolerate them, other times they're pretty testy and will snarl and chase them off. But you can be sure, once the dogs have taken as much meat as they can off of hard to reach bones like the spine, the chickens will immediately come in and clean them till there's nothing left. If the chickens have their preference, it is for meat first, then bugs, then everything else (veggies, milk/whey) fruit, seeds, etc). I don't know that they simply prefer meat to bugs, or if it's just that meat is sitting there right in front of them, whereas they have to go out and chase the bugs. Our chickens are pretty lazy/chill, if they have the option to stay in the greater barn yard area and be fed as opposed to having to roam the fields for grain and bugs, they will always choose the yard. In fact, the only time they'll wander more than 75 yards from the coop is if we stop feeding them anything altogether. Geez, rough life! lol But I loooove them so much, all our animals, SO blessed to have clean, fresh, untampered-with, food.
