Have my girls become bug snobs?

[SDR]

Back in the spring when my girls were a month or two old I let them free range one day and noticed they did a number on the Box Elder bugs that were on the barn. I honestly couldn't find a single one where their had been several dozen earlier. I was so happy to discover this and thought when the infestation really started in the fall, like it does every year, the chickens will take care of it. I was even bragging to friends and family I had found the Box Elder bug cure.

Now that fall is here I have probably the worst infestation I've ever seen on that barn and my girls won't even look at them. In fact I watched a bug land on the back of one girl, she turned her head around, picked it up and flung it.

I don't get it what changed?

 

[Mudsow]

Mine would never touch those things. Maybe younger chickens would react more to the movement, once they matured, they realized there were better things to eat.

 

[chickchicks]

mine are like that .
but with worms instead, they used to chase each other around and peep like mad when a worm came alond and fight overit.
now they see a wom and walk away from it !!

 

[Animalian]

maybe it is because there are so many around.

They'll want things more if they don't see them all the time!