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[el dorado quail]

I have a weird question. It is ant season in my area, and I was wondering if I get an invasion, can I let my chicks loose on it? Will too many ants be bad for them to eat?

That's exactly what I am doing once I have chicks!! Freakin 14 ant holes have popped up in my 46-stalk corn patch. Now all my hipster gourds are coming up and I just know those ants are waiting for the opportunity to aphid farm

 

[mixedUPturk]

My chickens will ingor ants even in or on their food. To keep that from happening i have to use an ant bait. The chickens dont touch that either. They try to eat the fly baits tho so those are kept in stations under milk crates.

 

[el dorado quail]

My chickens will ingor ants even in or on their food. To keep that from happening i have to use an ant bait. The chickens dont touch that either. They try to eat the fly baits tho so those are kept in stations under milk crates.

I wonder why quail go after them and chickens don't? Size maybe?

 

[BantyChooks]

Yes, worry about the knives! The urchins are replaceable!

I'd set them all to plucking. The knife work is the easy part.

Oh, yeah, I have too many of the urchins anyway.
I don't pluck. I'm not THAT nuts. I skin the birds, which takes a bit more finesse and arm strength than some of said urchins have.

 

[mixedUPturk]

Oh, yeah, I have too many of the urchins anyway.
I don't pluck. I'm not THAT nuts. I skin the birds, which takes a bit more finesse and arm strength than some of said urchins have.

Park em each in a chair and make em fetch anything you might want at your will?

 

[RUNuts]

I have a weird question. It is ant season in my area, and I was wondering if I get an invasion, can I let my chicks loose on it? Will too many ants be bad for them to eat?

If you open the fire ant mounds up, some of the chickens will go for the juicy white larvae. Then eat the adults that bite them on the legs. That usually cuts the feast short. Some won't eat the pupae. Having said this, very few fire ant mounds in the chicken area. The dogs won't touch them and learn to stay away. The idiots will even share their food with the fire ants.

But quail will eat ants... Very interesting...

 

[R2elk]

I have a weird question. It is ant season in my area, and I was wondering if I get an invasion, can I let my chicks loose on it? Will too many ants be bad for them to eat?

You have to wait until they are old enough to consider the ants food. The first battles of ants versus chicks goes to the ants as they easily overwhelm new hatches. Once the chicks are old enough to see the ants as food, the battle goes the chicks way as they devour their foes.

 

[Nabiki]

You have to wait until they are old enough to consider the ants food. The first battles of ants versus chicks goes to the ants as they easily overwhelm new hatches. Once the chicks are old enough to see the ants as food, the battle goes the chicks way as they devour their foes.

I threw an ant in the brooder yesterday. It lasted about 2 seconds before a chick came along and snapped it up. I was just afraid that they might overeat if I let them loose on a large number of them.

 

[RUNuts]

My chickens won’t touch ants, but my quail have eaten tons of them. We don’t feed them ants on purpose, but when the ants come into the quail cages for water, they’re fair game.

I keep forgetting we live in different worlds. Ants in the cage to get water is strange.

Ants getting into the cage to get out of the water makes more sense to me. The differences between swamps and deserts...

 

[R2elk]

If you open the fire ant mounds up, some of the chickens will go for the juicy white larvae. Then eat the adults that bite them on the legs. That usually cuts the feast short. Some won't eat the pupae. Having said this, very few fire ant mounds in the chicken area. The dogs won't touch them and learn to stay away. The idiots will even share their food with the fire ants.

But quail will eat ants... Very interesting...

Some people introduce ants to their guinea keets at an early age. Guineas develop their food likes and dislikes at a very early age.

I have ants all over the place. After reading about another posters guineas eating their ants, I checked my guinea area for ants and found none. Perhaps they are eating the ants or perhaps the ants consider the area too wet for them as it gets watered daily.

When I was digging sand for bedding in the brooder, I accidentally dug into a nest of the little bitty ants. When I removed the keets from the brooder two weeks later, there were no ants present.