Soldier fly larvae are the best! I was fortunate enough to have raised a huge stash of them in some old deer feed. My chickens and ducks nearly attacked me getting to them!
Those dried mealworms are expensive and I am not laughing at all that you spent that for your girls. I get it! I keep on hand too though they are not a favorite. Never heard of the mix beatles!??? My girls run me down, forward then reverse, for papaya (I cut skins into 1/4"cubes), craisens, tomato and anything pasta though they R A R E L Y get pasta.... poor things. As to the ridiculous things we do to please our girls for those hopeful 3-5 eggs per week... just ask my DH and neighbors. I go on bug hunts... lizard hunts... kinda nothing I would not do for my pals.We can play for hours digging in the garden or overturning rocks. All in good fun!!!
Oh you are exactly right! Yours are the real deal a nutritional delight and a treat in every sense and cents of the word. I space mine in the bag out far enough out that it doesn’t really matter to me or them. I don’t have to bribe mine back into the coop at night. They do not free range but have a huge run for nine birds and they are not crowded in the coop either. I don’t plan on having to do bad chicken math or good chicken math either so they will never be crowded. Their treats at my house are carrot tops and cucumbers out of the garden. They love them and would fight you more for them than meal worms probably. I have had them eating them as early as they were growing in the garden this Spring and that went for the chickens too whose birthdays were May 18, 2020. Lol! Nah! I’m sure that they love bugs best I guess but who knows. One school says they are omnivores and one says herbivores. That I think would be a good thread to see who believes which the most. Don’t you think?
My girls will eat dried BSFL but not dried mealworms
Well my money won't be wasted if they attract bugs cause our girls are BUGGERS. THEY will snatch a spider off our wall and the legs still twitching on the wall where it used to beI bought dried mealworms to use as a training treat. My chicks could take or leave them -- mostly leave them. LOL
In hopes of getting some use out of the money already spent I'm throwing a small handful around the run every day hoping that either the chickens will actually eat them or that they'll attract bugs that the chickens will eat.
Well my money won't be wasted if they attract bugs cause our girls are BUGGERS. THEY will snatch a spider off our wall and the legs still twitching on the wall where it used to be
