[beulah59]

My slugs are enormous ... at least 3inches long and as thick as my thumb ...

[violet]

ANTS!  Occasionally we have a  lot of ants on the patio..hens love them...yuk!

[skywatcher]

My slugs are enormous ... at least 3inches long and as thick as my thumb ...

I have had a few big ones that are a really rich dark orange colour. The girls don't seem to like them though.

[Hopton Mitch]

I was tatting about trying to get the run finished (failed) this evening and there was a right cafuful, one of my girls was running all over the place with a freshly murdered mouse in her beak closely followed by her 3 chums all wanting a piece of the action.

[Chookiechook]

My big hens wont touch slugs..... but the silkies have been scoffing the greeny leopardy slugs that were in a tarpaulin today.  The slugs were the size of their heads, and they just ran around the pen with them in their beaks!!!

[nicchick]

My really poorly ex-bat still picked up a mealworm and ran with it a day after coming out so the instinct is there. They all refuse to eat caterpillars though! Nic.

[grumpydad]

lol, most caterpillars are quite hairy so that may be the reason.
also the colouring, mine will chase flies, but run from wasps and bees...

martyn

[Tattyanne456]

Mine love live mealworms! They are soo funny to watch! They also love those great big fat white things that you get in the compost bin!

[iwantanallotment]

Mine haven't encountered slugs yet, but do keep eyeing up the small snails on the fence, and you can just hear them thinking "hmmmmmm......"
As for worms, I throw them a few and some of them just look, walk away and tread right over them! The others gobble them up instantly.

For a real treat I gave them an ants nest last week, which was in an old bucket of compost (ex-plant from last year) - just tipped it out and they loved it, ate every scrap of ant, larvae, the lot. It occupied them for hours too, they had such fun!

Got several more of these buckets, so every now and then they'll get one for a treat 

[nzdunn]

Ive just watched one of my girls leg it across the garden with the other two closely following with a huge worm in her beak, it was very funny to watch, yesterday the same but this time with a big slug, funnily we have had a big problem with slugs must be all this rain we are having its a nitemare.  nickyx

[AmandaH]

Ugh.  I'm beginning to wish I'd never mentioned this... 

[iwantanallotment]

I was digging in the run this morning and passed some juicy worms to the Welsummer chicks - their first - they knew EXACTLY what to do with them, it was bedlam in there 

[shaggybfc]

Ugh.  I'm beginning to wish I'd never mentioned this... 

Amanda, now see what you started    My girls had a treat this evening, they discovered bright green grasshoppers.  The poor things didn't stand a chance.  It reminded me of piranha fish devouring food

[Vi]

Posted by: Tattyanne456  Posted on: August 18, 2009, 05:57 
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Mine love live mealworms! They are soo funny to watch! They also love those great big fat white things that you get in the compost bin!


Grubs!  my chooks love them as well, which is GREAT because we've got heaps and they don't seem to do nice things for my plants

Vi

[mad chicken]

How much are meal worms? live ones