Meal worms vs. Black solder fly larve

[Pampered chicken girl]

My turkeys will be 3 months old in a few day and always seem like they are starving. I switched them from the 30% game bird formula to a mixed grain scratch-which still says it is for turkeys- and supplement them with mealworms, soldierfly larve, grass clippings and vegetable and fruit scraps. Should I still be adding the 30% game bird mix?

They can't live on scratch and treats I would give the 30% as sole ration and feed scratch and other things as treats

 

[Pampered chicken girl]

My chickens LOVE the live Dubias.

My sister informs me that some people prefer to buy them frozen.

Mine have been finding roaches around the coop lately and LOVE THEM too I bet they would love me giving them to them

 

[3KillerBs]

Mine have been finding roaches around the coop lately and LOVE THEM too I bet they would love me giving them to them

Dubias are not like regular roaches, but if the chickens are happy to do extermination duty for you then it's win-win on chicken snacks + bug control.

 

[Pampered chicken girl]

Dubias are not like regular roaches, but if the chickens are happy to do extermination duty for you then it's win-win on chicken snacks + bug control.

What different with dubias the nutrients or something else

 

[3KillerBs]

What different with dubias the nutrients or something else

They're slow and easy to catch among other things. And very well suited to captive breeding.

My sister, and other reptile people, could go on and on about them, but I'm fuzzy on the details.

 

[Florida Bullfrog]

In Florida the Dubias are illegal to possess from what I hear from reptile fanciers, although by in large people raise them anyhow. The concern is that they could escape and harm the ecosystem. Not that almost every other roach in Florida isn’t introduced. All of the pest species are exotic. Our big native roach is the palmetto bug, which looks like a hissing roach. We also have some native leaf litter and dirt type roaches. Most people who move here from elsewhere call the big American roaches “palmetto bugs” but those are not the same thing.

I have a strong fear of cockroaches, but the slow ones like the Dubias don’t scare me or gross me out.

 

[Jkcrosby3]

I don't think giving your chicken a mealworm is bad. It just needs to have moderation. But in my case, I now used BSFL over mealworm. It has similar nutrients, but mealworm has no calcium than BSFL, and we know that calcium is essential in the development of our chickens. And I find a store that is way cheaper than mealworm and guarantees that has no China craps. You may check it here.

I just read that mealworms are banned in The UK because some producers were feeding them sewer products vs vegetable products and the birds were getting contaminated with micro organisms. I guess knowing what they are feeding on is important.