If you are a bug and land in the brooder...

[brennant]

... you are now a chick treat.

30 seconds of chick pandemonium. One of my BOs got it and was running in circles at 200mph.

 

[damarisgw]

Lol I bet all the other ones started chasing him/her

 

[shelleyd2008]

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Sounds like you have a little running back there on your chicken football team!

I once had a fly land in one of my brooders, those poor chicks were scared to death of it!

 

[txchickie]

I've had a cricket living in my brooder with 3 japanese bantam chicks for nearly 24 hours now and they are scared to death of it

It's entertaining, I think I'll leave it in there for another day or so

 

[Soccer Mom]

We call that "chicken rugby" at my house!

 

[Country Heart]

I used to give mine live worms. They would each grab a worm and spend the next 5 minutes running around with it, eventually they got around to eating it - but I think the running around part was almost as good as the eats.

 

[roosters16]

i would always place worms an my chickies backs and him/her would be like what? and the rest would be tryna get it and he/she would be running in circles not knowing what the hell was going on

 

[brennant]

Make no mistake. That bug was food. It had about 1 second to make an escape. ...for being a week old, these girls mean serious business.

First day I had them (and they were a little over a day old) a fly made a pass at the brooder, and ALL of them stopped to watch. One BO made a jump at the fly! Very funny.

Can't wait to get them outside for some play time.

 

[Kriquet]

See - I told you! Velociraptors!!

 

[ZepChick]

Our Fayoumi would allow us to carry her in our arms, and she would snatch flies out of mid-air. It worked quite well when we unfortunately were out of town for weeks, and returned to find a fly problem in our house. I was disgusted, but Ray took care of it swiftly and easily....it was the coolest thing (normally they don't come in the house though)