What about the worms being bad? chickens eat worms all the time! am I wrong?
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Anyone else read the composting article on the front page? It's fantastic. Gave me a great idea, and played into our worm conversations.
I am lost..front page of what?
What about the worms being bad? chickens eat worms all the time! am I wrong?
What about the worms being bad? chickens eat worms all the time! am I wrong?
My thoughts exactly!!!!I have read that tape worms can be passed to birds through earthworms, crickets and a lot of other things that chickens eat, along with just plain dirt. However, birds eat worms all the time, especially chickens. So I do not think I'm going to quit feeding worms to my chickens and ducks. I think it only be a problem if the birds are out of whack in some way, allowing the tapeworms to get a foothold and really build up numbers to the point of hurting the chicken.
Birds have been eating earthworms and other sorts of creatures for thousands of years, I don't think they are going to quit any time soon.
I don't know If I was looking at the same thread it may have been a different one.No one said anything about worms being bad that I read.
Thank you for the clarification about home page on BYC (I don't go there but probably i should)
I agree. Much of what one reads on the internet just isn't true or at least is only a small part of the truth. Chickens that are allowed to be chickens eat all kinds of things. They are omnivores. They will eat snakes, toads, frogs, mice, worms, all kinds of bugs, etc. 90% of my birds freerange daily, every day of the year regardless of weather. So at one time or another I have seen them eat everything I listed above. Yet I've never had a chicken with worms in it's droppings and I have never wormed my chickens. I can only say this is do to not being over crowded and not living in their own feces. Small confined spaces and too many birds ....will lead to worms. Not eating earth worms. At least that is my 2 cents on it.I have read that tape worms can be passed to birds through earthworms, crickets and a lot of other things that chickens eat, along with just plain dirt. However, birds eat worms all the time, especially chickens. So I do not think I'm going to quit feeding worms to my chickens and ducks. I think it only be a problem if the birds are out of whack in some way, allowing the tapeworms to get a foothold and really build up numbers to the point of hurting the chicken.
Birds have been eating earthworms and other sorts of creatures for thousands of years, I don't think they are going to quit any time soon.