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.
Awww that’s gorgeous! Silly things! Very glad that they are happy though. Katie
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.
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.
Mine gulped a little baby bird last year. I was sat having coffee with a friend the time ):
We forget they are actually wild. Hope your coffee didn’t go down the wrong way!
It rather put us off our cake. We both felt rather sad i seem to remember. Chickens at their worst.
Such curious little faces!
What genius! I’m filing all these poultry and fowl ideas for the moment when we are let loose on our own … 🐛 🐔
Sent you an email. I now have a bit of a pecking order issue and some bullies.
I’ve got it. Will reply in the next couple of days.
No problem.
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.
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!