Our resident moles have gorged on every meadow worm we had. In vain our chickens scratch and dig and keep their little beady eyes peeled. But no, not a wiggle in site. Unhappy chooks.
So today I resolved. A bit like vegetarian meat substitute, a search in the pantry turned up spaghetti. Perfect. Long, wiggly and I am sure they won’t be rolling it round their beaks for more than an atomic second to savour the flavour.
Out to the coop. Pasta worm wiggled appropriately..well as I suppose an earth worm wiggles and what a stampede! Jumping and stumbling. Pecking each other. A frenzy. I mean not just A worm but a whole handful.
Success. Maybe next time a quick dust with some soil for authenticity. And I just feel very sorry for the worms to be pulled and stretched out of the earth to be a chicken snack. Happy all round.
A French Homestead Life 
Awww that’s gorgeous! Silly things! Very glad that they are happy though. Katie
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Those guys will eat just about anything, frogs,baby birds,snails, slugs.. spaghetti is definitely a nicer option. Maybe I should get mine to go veggie.
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Caught one the other day running about with a tiny baby bird. Our weather so hot and dry there are very few tasty snails etc around.
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Mine gulped a little baby bird last year. I was sat having coffee with a friend the time ):
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We forget they are actually wild. Hope your coffee didn’t go down the wrong way!
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It rather put us off our cake. We both felt rather sad i seem to remember. Chickens at their worst.
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Such curious little faces!
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What genius! I’m filing all these poultry and fowl ideas for the moment when we are let loose on our own … 🐛 🐔
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Sent you an email. I now have a bit of a pecking order issue and some bullies.
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I’ve got it. Will reply in the next couple of days.
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No problem.
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I never thought of chickens eating birds, I guess it makes sense as they are modern day dinosaurs so would be voracious 🙂 Can’t wait to have some of my own mini dinosaurs!! Love reading your blogs about your gals.
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Thank you. Yes dinosaurs….Little terrors!! We do forget they are meat eaters. Bet mine moan on the quiet about being veggie all the time. Tied a cabbage up on string the other day. They looked at it then me with a sort of..what on earth do we do with that, look. Jump up and peck..fun,fun. Mmm no ..our owners an absolute idiot!
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