Earwings in Dry Grain Storage

[byc-andy]

I'm sorry, who's Claude?
Is there a complete nutrition breakdown for the feed as a whole?

If you're going to go to YouTube for recipes, I'd reccomended Justin Rhodes,

Claude is one of the AI tools on the market

I'll take a look at Justin's channel. Thanks again.

 

[BlindLemonChicken]

This might help as well. I wasn’t in a place to look it up before:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...deep-pockets.78655/?page=3#ams-comment-528505

 

[Perris]

I believe there are some 28 species of earwig in the USA. So to answer your questions

I noticed earwigs around the surface of each bucket when I open the lid. More so in the wheat/oats, some in the peas, never in the corn.

I have just been picking them out as I can grab them and feeding them to my chickens as an extra source of protein. First, are there any problems with hens eating this particular insect?

should I be more concerned about these, or can I continue my current ways?

it would be a good idea to try to identify precisely which one(s) you are dealing with, as the answers are liable to vary with the species. I hasten to add that I am not an entomologist, and can't supply answers whatever species you've got. But I do know that to get an accurate answer from anywhere you are going to need to formulate your question more precisely than 'earwig'.

 

[Altairsky]

Edited for additional context

What am I missing? thanks!

My current mix recipe:

• 30% Corn
• 30% Wheat berries
• 20% Peas
• 10% Oats
• 8% Fish Meal

(2%) They also get table scraps and free range the property for 4-5 hrs/day, so whatever they find out there too

I believe there are some 28 species of earwig in the USA. So to answer your questions

I think they were asking your opinion on op's homemade feed recipe.

 

[Perris]

I think they were asking your opinion on op's homemade feed recipe.

but the OP was originally asking about earwigs (see thread title) and there had been very little focus on that before it was derailed by the feed question (as so often happens).

I don't do percent-fixed-ingredient type recipes, as they aim to be homemade versions of so-called complete balanced feeds; Stormcrow is better suited to advise on recipes of that sort.

 

[byc-andy]

Looks just like these:

https://extension.colostate.edu/topic-areas/insects/european-earwigs-5-533/

I'm sure it's fine, they're bugs afterall.