My Chickens Eat Stinkbugs!!!!!!!!! Yay!!!!

[fishnet1971]

did it make their poo stink too?

 

[windtryst]

Mine eat stink bugs too, but I discourage it, because I do not want my eggs to taste like stink bugs....you are what you eat after all...

 

[krazychick28]

Thats great to know! I absolutely hate them stink bugs. Good for nothing bugs.
And yeah I gotta agree with Tigerlily, my chickens stole a chicken nugget from me before and ran after each other trying to swipe it from each others beaks!

 

[BitsyB]

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Another reason why chickens should be legal to keep everywhere! Stinkbugs are really getting to be a problem, not only in people's houses, they harm certain crops too. And actually if there were enough chickens around they would make a dent in the stinkbug population!

Chick-ens, chick-ens... rah rah rah

 

[6chickens in St. Charles]

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and shredded carrots.

"Ech! I thought that was cheese!"

 

[6chickens in St. Charles]

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Can you furnish a pic of your stinkbugs? I'm curious.

We let our rosecomb hen in after breakfast sometimes to clean up after our youngest child, call her "The Cleaning Lady". One morning she alerted us to ants, and we let more chickens in, and they picked the ants clean. No more ants.

 

[ColbyNTX]

I'm glad we don't have a stink bug problem in Texas! Glad your girls are eating them and the eggs dont taste funny.


fishnet1971, I think their poo stinks no matter what they eat.

 

[pixie546]

They have good pictures of stinkbugs on Wikipedia and Google- better than I can take! I did some reading about them last fall when they started coming in the house on cool days.

As far as crops go, soon we will be like the honeybee keepers-- renting out our flocks of chickens to farmers fields to get rid of stinkbugs!!!

My eggs taste just fine and no one has ever said they taste funny. They have nice orangey-yellow yolks with lots of vitamins and omegas. And chicken poo is just poo. No unusual smell! The ladies love them- good for eggs, and growing feathers! It's cute watching the roosters let them eat first. And trust me, they all get plenty!

 

[fishnet1971]

fishnet1971, I think their poo stinks no matter what they eat.

yea, I guess that was a stupid question......

 

[Lunachick]

So that's what I've been finding in my sunroom and bathrooms! I went to turn the water on in the bathroom and one of those suckers fell from the faucet! I felt bad for it (not knowing what it was) and put it outside, which killed it - duh. (COLD)

My cat was stalking one the other day and went over to sniff it and made the funniest face! lol Now I know why!!