Thanks for the time you took here, and creativity. The nest alert substance is what I'm worried sbout. But they are literally eating all of my Monarch snd Gulf Fritillary caterpillars. I'm rescuing the Monarchs per usual, as I raise them, but the others are usually prolific by now and all I see...
I used to grow silkworms for my lizard and now I grow them for my other dinosaurs. The roaches look a bit too much like our native light bugs for comfort, but it's certainly the same concept. Your chickens are lucky fir their connections!
The frozen strawberries are popular with my flock, so yes, the freezer is also helpful. Do you use bucket waterers with the frozen water bottles? I've been considering moving the horizontal nipples to a bucket in the new coop.
We have a second fridge in the garage (it was in our office before...
If you can figure out how to remove a paper wasp nest right in the middle of my organic marjoram, I'm all ears. I needed to cut it back, but noticed the nest before I did.
We have cicadas every year and it sounds like an alien invasion film. Or like the south. 🤣
We don't get Brood X in Florida, but have the regular species. If the flock finds them, they'll eat them during supervised free range time.
My Huskies snatch cicadas out of the air, wound them, and watch them spin around in circles buzzing away. Guess I could euthanize their catch by tossing...