Edith's snack

We caught a spider in our house tonight and put it in the chickens' box. The 'girls' tracked its every move for a few seconds before BAM! Edith snaps it up in two bites. The image of spider legs hanging out of her little chickie beak is forever burned into my memory. Horrifying, and yet I'm filled with a certain pride for my little birds' development.

[Later: We find another spider in the house and Alice can't wait to throw it to the chickens. Edith doesn't take more than half a second to snap up that juicy arachnid and then scratch around in the litter to find more. Alice shrieks with glee and turns to me with a big smile, "For their birthday, can we give them a whole jar full of spiders and they can just 'armph, armph, armph' eat them all up?!"]