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The chickens will love them. Wear gloves because you WANT the bugs to come with the load -- scrape down in to get the partially-rotted ones instead of just taking the dry layer on top.

Yes, though more specifically the longer needles of the southern loblollies, longleafs, etc. Any old pine needles or old leaf litter would share the qualities that make it so great as a chicken enrichment material -- namely, dig-ability and bugs -- though I personally wouldn't want to have to...

The chickens would absolutely love it if you raked up some old leaves/pine straw from under a hedgerow and brought it to them (bugs and all). My in-town chickens could never be let out and they LOVED it when I put a wheelbarrow load of that kind of aged yard waste into the coop. They were like...