Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1912 — Rats Eat Feet of Chickens. [ARTICLE]

Rats Eat Feet of Chickens.

Carmel, May 24. —Chicken feet are a special delicacy pf rats In this vicinity, especially when they cannot obtain the whole fowl. A few nights ago rats gnawed small holes, in an incubator, but being unable to gain entrance, ate the feet of the entire hatch, killing all. Rats have become so numerous here that it is feared the town’s reputation as "the home of fried chicken" will suffer. They have killed many in large broods, losses ranging from eight to twenty being reported almost every morning. John Booth had forty chickens killed by rats in one night