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@Flowerbh: that picture is priceless!!

@GAM: I am thinking "Minnie" the tailless Maran is either really ornery or a roo. It keeps jumping outta my brooder in the living room! Found it on the couch the other morning lol the rather huge labrador didnt bother it at all lol. Cowboy was asleep on the couch too. Minnie has some massive drumsticks already lol
 
Well remember the offer ... I will gladly change out for a more obvious pullet if/when you want. (I can't seem to make myself stop hatching them. lol )

I have a splash girl that keeps escaping the brooder, too. My daughter came walking into my room holding her and said, "Look who came out to say hi to me." Funny girl.
 
GAFarmGirl87 said:
I've wanted to try mealworms, BUT I just can't bring myself to pay that much for a chicken treat.
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My gals get 5-way scratch, plus lots of different kitchen scraps. If I am digging in the yard and find bugs, I throw them to the girls and they gobble 'em up! They love roaches, grasshoppers, worms, flies, and ants.

Oh, and apparently they like voles too, since I caught a few of the girls stealing one of the cat's 'catches' recently.
You should've seen the outraged look on my cat's face!
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"How dare you! Mom, are you gonna let that chicken eat MY vole?" Yes, yes I am.
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You only really have to "pay" once, if you get the live ones. They sell them in wal-mart in the Sporting Goods section for about $3 or $4 for roughly 35 of them. Get that and then order the four 32oz bags of Bob's Red Mill Wheat Germ from Amazon. HERE'S THE LINK.

Dump the wheat germ in a big container and then dump the mealworms in it. You can either use all of the wheat germ at once, or save the other bags for "fresh" colonies each time. I add it all and just let them keep using it until it's practically dust. After putting the bedding and mealworms in, add a slice of potato or apple. Then put the container in a relatively warm room (laundry room works here, closets work too) and forget about them for about 3 months.

When you find them again, you'll have many, many more mealworms than the original 35! Just make sure you count some out each time to "continue" the colony. I used a sifter in the past to separate the worms from the bedding, but these days I just pull a few out at a time, and leave the rest in there. Add the bedding back to the original container, add 20-40 mealworms to restart the colony, and feed the rest to the chickens!
 
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You only really have to "pay" once, if you get the live ones. They sell them in wal-mart in the Sporting Goods section for about $3 or $4 for roughly 35 of them. Get that and then order 're e four 32oz bags of Bob's Red Mill Wheat Germ from Amazon. HERE'S THE LINK.

I bought my starter batch from the reptile store (a bit cheaper than Wal-Mart, and I was in there for snake food anyway), and put them in a spare "critter keeper" (more repurposed reptile stuff) with chick starter for bedding. I feed mine whatever fresh veggie scraps are left from prepping dinner, or toss in the occasional banana peel. They sit on a bookshelf in the computer room, and have been a continuous colony for a year now. They're hard to kill, and even if you manage that, there are still eggs in there that will hatch soon and restart the whole thing :).
 

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