Crickets!

[RockyPhoenix]

Anyone catch crickets to feed their chooks? any ideas on how to do it?

 

[dappertophatter]

Live traps?

Unrelated- when our garage has crickets, we just let the girls in. We have to move stuff so they can get at the crickets, but everybody's gone (crickets got eaten, chickens left cause there's no more crickets) within 5 minutes.

Just be careful nobody's spraying anything around your place (weedkillers, etc.). Crickets go into places to die like elephants (I think). HOWever, nobody sprays anything near us, so we're OK.

 

[HEChicken]

I've heard (haven't tried it yet but plan to this summer) that if you leave a towel outside on the grass overnight, the crickets will congregate under it. Next morning, all you need to do is flip it over and let them have at it.

 

[lindseythefork]

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We don't have too many crickets around but this also works for sow bugs/pincher bugs and even worms if you do it on a patch of dirt.