My chickens are broken

[twendt]

View attachment 1981456 My chickens are not normal chickens I believe. They will eat anything, but are afraid of worms.
Now I started out just having ducks, and I would constantly dig for worms with them in my yard. The second I would grab my hoe and shovel they would start happily quacking/screaming/running towards me. Worms from mother they didn't have to work for. Yes they are spoiled. I would also buy them live worms too.
Now I have geese and chickens as well.
Started out with 4 chickens and now I have a nice even 35. (My absolute limit!)
Now when they were young little pullets and cockerels I thought it was normal for them to be afraid of worms because they were still so small. But now I have chickens that are 3 years old and younger all the way down to babies. And NO ONE will eat a live worm.
The worms actually frighten them.
My geese are even more scared of worms when they see them move. Wth
Is this normal?!?!
Thank you in advance, I'm a very concerned fowl mom that's worrying I created chicken chickens!

What kind of "chickens" are those??

 

[CamTheChknKeeper]

View attachment 1981456 My chickens are not normal chickens I believe... I'm a very concerned fowl mom that's worrying I created chicken chickens!

I love your dog, LoL... but... umm... I think those chickens might be geese?

 

[twendt]

I tink doze are DUX...

 

[TwoCrows]

Maybe worms aren't good for chickens I could be wrong . but I do know that if you feed baby birds like sparrows or some other song birds worms it can be fatal to their health. Unlike robins where that's all they eat it worms.

This is quite true. Earthworms are known to carry tapeworms and capillary worms as do many slug type worms. I personally don't encourage them digging for worms, but the birds do anyway.

 

[nuthatched]

The first thing I see when I click this thread is the picture of the ducks. And I'm over here thinking, "Well, the chickens are broken probably because they are ducks...

 

[nuthatched]

I love your dog's face.

 

[Don 27]

This is quite true. Earthworms are known to carry tapeworms and capillary worms as do many slug type worms. I personally don't encourage them digging for worms, but the birds do anyway.

Ya that's what a thought. They never seemed like a good food source. What my chickens eat and We have tones of them are soft shelled land snails. That's what I always see them picking out of the ground. Robins have something in their gut to help fight off the tapeworms.

 

[TwoCrows]

Ya that's what a thought. They never seemed like a good food source. What my chickens eat and We have tones of them are soft shelled land snails. That's what I always see them picking out of the ground. Robins have something in their gut to help fight off the tapeworms.

I once had a Barred Rock hen that spent hours each day digging for these little white larva deep in the soil. She ate hundreds and hundreds of the things each year. I don't know what they are, but the hen constantly had to be treated for Capillary worms.

 

[rosemarythyme]

I have to admit I stared at the opening photo, went back to it, went back again, and I'm still wondering where the chickens are... It's like one of those puzzles where there's objects hidden in the background!

 

[electrycmonk]

The expression on your dogs face!!!
As if he wrote the post himself!

True 'Dat! I stopped mid sentence when that part of the picture finally loaded.