Insects My Birds Will and Will Not Eat

[shuizar209]

Japanese beetles. YUM!

Check this out!!!

 

[GA_in_GA]

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This is too funny. Did any of the chicks ever eat the beetle?

 

[shuizar209]

Oh man. They prolly have eaten hundreds. We get those like crazy because of the fruit trees. That particular run is under a peach and apple tree. Sometimes 10 or15 beetles willbe eating a peach and it will fall and WHAM they have got a buffet. Fruit and beetles.

 

[KDK1]

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That's funny... sad part is, they probably ran off 100X the calories than the little bug provided.

 

[7L Farm]

I live on a grasshopper farm LOL & my chickens love chasing & eating grasshoppers.

 

[deerman]

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Smart chicken , earthworms are bad for chicken, as they are host to many other worms,

 

[deerman]

Parasitic worms......and their host

cecal.....................beetle,earwig,grasshopper

capillary..................earthworm

gapeworm...............earthworm,slug ,snail

tapeworm..................ant,beetle.earthworm,slugs,snail,termite


flute...........................dragonfly,mayfly




good reason to worm your birds, also good reason not to feed these bugs, they will get enought on their own.

 

[centrarchid]

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My birds eat all of above having reservations for only a few. Those which get bulk of sustainance from intermediate host (American games mostly) exhibit rapid growth and are rock solid. No worming agents used. Hatchery / production breeds with some diet overlap and lots of quality feed do not maintain same muscle density. Your concern should be qualified in respect to genetics. Birds that are selected and raised on a diet with lots of the intermediate host should thrive. If the do not, then cull them and flock over generations will improve. If birds hatchery stock or not of such local free-range breeding, then use wormer and / or raise birds in plastic bubble