Would girls eat a Sparrow?

Just before they settled for bed a Sparrow flew in through the door of their run. They instantly started charging around after it! It wasn't curiousity either, more like a pack after its prey. Would hens really eat a Sparrow if they caught one? Luckily the poor little thing flew out before I got a visual answer 

Jan.x

  That's really surprised me. They are virtually carniverous girlies then  I'll have to be ultra careful that nothing gets in with them from now on, with the exception of cows 

Jan.x

Mischief, that's just it 'sense the drooling' as you said. I instinctively felt that the girls weren't curious or just playing and that it was a pack hunt. I suppose it's just natural behaviour for them if they eat all sorts in the wild. I'll have to make sure I don't take a nap in the run because if they are REALLY hungry they just might eat their mummy!

Jan.x

My girlies almost caught a pigeon and I could sense the drooling!!!! I have noticed that the bird life in my garden has dramatically reduced since the girls arrived!!!]

My girls were keen sparrow chasers in the first year but have given it up and they even share the same dust bath , the sparrows stay just out of beak range.
The small bird population has gone up in my garden , the blackbirds raised two broods the dunnock raised one for the first time in about ten years.
The young blackbirds were in and out of the run all the time and all survived.

Well done to the chooks for seeing the moggies off during the day.

  My girl's once had six piegon's trapped in there coop and didn't chase any, they seemed more scared them selfs from all the flapping that was going on.However i have seen them chase after a magpie in there run. x

 :ohmy:I was amazed to see my girls chasing the wrens that nest in a bush by the sitting room window today, could not believe how violent their behaviour was ! Quite shocking, I REALLY dont want to see them doing a tug of war with a frog either !