Do chickens eat ants?

[Jesusfreak101]

Thats um commitment eww lol

 

[RedDol]

We moved into a house with a long concrete patio. There were ant beds all along the concrete. The chickens took care of them all within a few months. But different chickens like different things. Mine used to go nuts for dried mealworms. The chickens I have now are totally not interested.

 

[RedDol]

Use DE (Diatomaceous Earth) safe and effective on ant hills.

 

[mcbrown7513]

All my ant mounds are cleaned out right now. I will have to see what happens if they come back. If my girls stop eating them then I will try something new.

 

[WYNot]

This is how you deal with fire ants.

 

[Coffee 1st]

This is how you deal with fire ants.

wow very cool....

 

[PouleNoire]

I have not seen mine eat ants but I know that they can (and probably have) eaten them before. With yours they may just simply not like ants. All chickens are different!

 

[Woob Woob Woob]

Good information

 

[chickenewbee]

3 weeks ago I bought 5 day old Brown Leg Horn chicks in the hopes that they would forage in the back yard and help us battle our Thatcher Ant problem. So far I haven't seen them eat a single ant. They readily eat blackflies and moths. When they see an ant, they just watch it walk away. I saw some You Tube videos of chickens demolishing ant hills. Is it something they will do when they are older? I really pictured chickens eating all bugs they see. Perhaps I should have tried a different breed of chicken?

Mine do eat ants, but that doesn't seem to be their particular area of interest....maybe because ants are so small.

I don't think you can count on the chickens to control insect issues of any kind all by themselves.

 

[Woob Woob Woob]

Thank you