Do your chickens eat worms??

[rstampa]

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Mine don't seem to like them either. Just like yours they may or may not pay any attention to them. But never eat them. Yuck!

 

[suburbanminifarm]

Mine won't eat garden worms EVER. So I just started a mealworm bin in a Tupperware container with regular chicken feed in it and a cabbage leaf. To start it off, 500 were like 6 bucks at Petco. Hopefully they will propagate.

 

[chaneg78]

My chickens chase each other down and attack each other to grab the worm hanging out of the other ones beak. They absolutely love them.

 

[Carpe DiHen]

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GROSS !!

 

[chookchick]

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That's funny--I was thinking, if you want to train them to eat anything--get a Speckled Sussex. Those gals are natural foragers--I swear mine could totally live off the land. If you can get ONE chicken to eat something.....the rest will follow.

 

[fordmommy]

Mine like worms. I get them little fishing worms from our Fleet Farm. And they also love crickets! Right now I get them from our local pet store. In summer, they find them in the yard.

 

[Archusa]

this was a few weeks that i was trying to find some worms to treat my 6 weeks old chicks. They always refused them leaving them on the ground of their chicken house. Yesterday i was again trying to find some when one of the roosters came next me, I found one and offered it to him. To my surprise it was quickly swallowed. I then thought to get more and bring them to the chicken house with that rooster so that the others see him eating worms and understand it is food. He ignored the worm yet they were all hungry. I then brought that rooster back where i was unearthing the worms and there he took more again. I don't know why, it might be the smell of freshly moved ground triggering something. So if your chickens refuse worms too, try bringing them with you when you garden.

 

[silkieowner]

my chickens eat anything offered to them there not fussy.

 

[MotherJean]

Was going to muse that maybe chickens won't eat manure worms (red wrigglers), but earthworms might be ok on the menu. That was until BlackBart said his chickens love the horse manure pile. Shot that theory right in the patoot

I'm beginning to think there's no such thing as "normal" for chickens. No matter the topic, the frequent answer is "Some do, some don't. Some will, some won't."

 

[FlyingFChick]

Mine hate worms! Thought they would love them! They LOVE grubs though! That is fine with me! Worms are good for the the garden, grubs are not!