Are Crickets Healthy For Chickens? also Which Chicken Is The Best Hunter

[Buddyfarm11]

I Recently Have Had a lot of Crickets On My Backyard and My Chickens Will Eat Them Is It Healthy For Them To Eat I Hear That Chickens Can Eat Crickets But Is They're Anything Healthy About Them Eating Crickets or Is it Just a Snack also, Is There a Special Breed Of Chicken That's a Great Cricket or Insect Catcher? Here are The Breeds That are Always Outside:
Brahma
Leghorn
Ameraucana
Polish
Cochin
Naked Neck
Grey Japanese Bantam

I Know That There Is Wild Chickens In Hawaii That Probably Eat Insects

 

[jak2002003]

Crickets are a great snack for you birds and they are healthy - they have a lot of protein in them and I are fresh!

All chickens are great insect catchers and many people put them to good use to help control garden and farm pests.

The only problem with eating the crickets might be if you have sprayed insecticide on your garden and the crickets might be contaminated with it - so don't use bug spray - use you environmentally friendly chickens instead!

 

[Buddyfarm11]

Crickets are a great snack for you birds and they are healthy - they have a lot of protein in them and I are fresh!

All chickens are great insect catchers and many people put them to good use to help control garden and farm pests.

The only problem with eating the crickets might be if you have sprayed insecticide on your garden and the crickets might be contaminated with it - so don't use bug spray - use you environmentally friendly chickens instead!

Yea Phew Missed One There Cause I Didn't Spray Anything Yea I am Going Use My Exterminators That Are My Chickens

 

[HouseCat]

Bantams are supposed to be the best insect eaters. My Old English Game bantams are phenomenal bug catchers. When I'm out in the pasture and a black fly is circling my head, I set a bantie on my shoulder and they always seem to catch it! I've also seen them pluck a mosquito out of midair. There's a board by the coop that always has lots of crickets under it. Whenever I flip it over, my OEGb hen will run under and go after those crickets like she's playing Whack-a-Mole. IMO they're better than a bug zapper.

 

[Buddyfarm11]

Bantams are supposed to be the best insect eaters. My Old English Game bantams are phenomenal bug catchers. When I'm out in the pasture and a black fly is circling my head, I set a bantie on my shoulder and they always seem to catch it! I've also seen them pluck a mosquito out of midair. There's a board by the coop that always has lots of crickets under it. Whenever I flip it over, my OEGb hen will run under and go after those crickets like she's playing Whack-a-Mole. IMO they're better than a bug zapper.

So The Japanese Bantams Will Be Good To Catch Bugs Or Just The Old English Game

 

[HouseCat]

Your japanese banties should do a fine job. Bantams have a quicker reaction time because they're closer to the ground and are more nimble than a full size chicken.

 

[birdy1]

Are freeze dried crickets good for hens as a snack? I feed dried meal worms,like to vary their treats.They also forage.

 

[Golden Chicken Master]

Oh Yeah!!! That is awesome because I just got chameleons and I decided to start farming my crickets for feed for them and I bought 1000 crickets, yep 1k! so if they breed too many I will feed them to my 20 Chickens!!!!

 

[Golden Chicken Master]

Are freeze dried crickets good for hens as a snack? I feed dried meal worms,like to vary their treats.They also forage.

I know for a fact that the meal worms are good dried, not sure about the crickets. The meal worms in moderation because they are high protein but my ladies love them!!!

 

[Golden Chicken Master]

Yea Phew Missed One There Cause I Didn't Spray Anything Yea I am Going Use My Exterminators That Are My Chickens

That's the best way, I despise poisons and only use that stuff if it is essential such as a bee infestation, and never around my dogs or chickens@!!