Chicken Eat Termites

I d be careful with termite poisons chickens love termites and are bound to get into them.

Chicken eat termites. And it is the staple of the wild chicken s diet. They ll happily devour the larvae of ants moths and termites with a distinct partiality to beetle larvae lawn grubs and mealworms aka darkling beetle larvae. For growing termites you need a large mud pot as you see here in the picture. But the chickens have reduced one nasty pest that had been around everywhere termites.

Make sure you offer grit or sand also needed for gizzard grinding apr 12 2010. Fill the pot with organic waste. Yes they will love them i also introduced ants at this age sadly they ate them when they the chickens were young now as adults most do not care for ants. Not only wild chickens but also other birds love to eat termites as it is rich in protein and fat.

They usually forage on at dusk and at dawn for searching termites and winged ants. I found this one. I m fairly certain we have termites in at least one of our barns. Bee balm chickweed clover dandelion grass clippings lambsquarters marigold mugwort nettles oxalis plantain purslane wild violet.

We need to treat it with something but is. Winged ants and termites are the preferred insects of wild chickens. Chickens will gladly gobble up grasshoppers hookworms potato beetles termites ticks slugs centipedes spiders and scorpions. Chickens and turkeys are used to eat grasshoppers attracted to new gardens.

Termite control and chickens gottsegnet. Chickens adore eating these weeds.