Chick ate dead wasp!??

[artsyrobin]

Hi, my little banty found a dead wasp- and had a grand time carrying it around, but then he swallowed it- is that on the edible list??

 

[gritsar]

When they were about 2 weeks old, my roo ate a LIVE wasp. He spent the next couple hours shaking his head non-stop.
It won't hurt them, unless the wasp died as a result of being sprayed with bug spray.

 

[SeramaLife]

My modern game bantam hen loves wasps. Dead or alive. She has never had a problem with the dead ones, but once, while swallowing a live was, she got stung in the throat. For more than a week after that, she kept getting food stuck where it had swelled up.

 

[ScrmnWoody]

I was recently wondering about this as well. My cat just pounced on a bumble bee and learned his lesson (I hope). So, the thought of the chickens doing it came to mind.

The way I try to look at it is, in the wild, these chickens probably get into a lot more trouble than they are in our pens or in our yards. And, I'm sure they eat bees all the time.

 

[Opa]

My neighbor is a bee keeper, plus I have an apple orchard. There are always bees flying around the coops and runs. The chickens get their fair share of them.

 

[Cuban Longtails]

I killed a big nest with spray (Raid Wasp Killer, love the stuff), this was done at night while the chickens were at roost. I saw several wasps fall to the ground and die. I figured there'd be a big mess in the morning to clean up. Went outside the next day and nothing on the ground, not even a piece of a wasp. The chickens had already cleaned them up. None of them died as a result.