Feeding Chickens Japanese Bettles

[newchickonblock]

My chickens love Japanese beetles. My children and I were pickind them off from our pole beans in our garden. However the bettles were getting too numerous so we put up a beetle bag catcher. The bag apparently atracts the beetles with its "sex lure" and they fall in the bag. My question is...is it ok to feed the ones in the bag to our chickens? As far as I know they do not die from the lure rather they eventually die because they can not get out of the slipery bag.

 

[Boyd]

Let me find you a video from Fred Dunn, a writer for mother earth news. He has traps setup that his birds lie in wait for those guys

 

[blueskylen]

thanks for bringing this up, as I have a trap set up now and will go out and give the girls some. I never thought of it.

 

[Boyd]

http://www.youtube.com/user/HTCSWEOD#play/uploads/17/ob28Q8g8sjw

 

[newchickonblock]

Thanks Boyd for the link. cool idea.

 

[treeclimber233]

I trapped Japanese Beetles and fed them to my chickens last summer. I took the bag off the trap and dumped the beetles in some ice cold water to chill them a bit. If you just dump the bag in the pen 1/2 the beetles fly off but if they are chilled a bit the chickens have a chance to eat them before they warm up.

 

[fordmommy]

That's really cool. Where does one get the main trap from? Fleet Farm, Menards, True Value???? Something like that???