Posted on 06/19/2023 6:52:30 PM PDT by DallasBiff
100% natural...loaded with protein, vitamins and oils.
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We used to tie a string to the leg of a June bug. Then tie the other end to a screwdriver driven into the ground. The bug would fly in a circle with the chickens chasing it until it got tired. That is entertainment!
And they add a delightful crunch to salads.
My wife bought some to attract blue birds. They won’t eat them. Nothing will eat them.
“Bluebirds among others love dried mealworms. I keep a steady supply on hand.”
They REALLY love the live ones!
I have an uncle who says he won’t eat chickens to this day. He went out to the outhouse at his grandparents to drop a deuce and the chickens were underneath the privy eating bugs off of the effluent.
Nothing personal, but I’ll be glad when this article is on ‘previous pages’ status. That way, I won’t have to keep seeing the headline; “DRIED MEALWORMS 100% natural...loaded with protein, vitamins and oils!”
Ugg.
Including other chickens.
My Heirloom medium sized Early Girls have just yielded me my first few dozen of the season. The big monster Beefteak slicers about another month. The Romas in about two more weeks. They are uncharacteristically huge for Romas.
Memphis is very hard to grow tomatoes. Too humid. Too hot. Night air too still and wet. A lot of fungal nightmares. This season I put large barn fans at the rows that I turn on at nights to keep air moving down the rows. That has made a big improvement. I turn them off after the morning dew burns off around 9AM. Then back on at 10PM.
Well. That explains it...
I have an old trash can I fill up with bird seed to feed my Blue Jay friends, and my wife, who bought mealy worms for the Blue Birds (they will eat them here) decided to dump them in and mix them with the bird seed!
I admit it-I don’t like sticking my hands in that ash can full of bird seed and mealy worms.
Don’t like it.
When I first read the start of the headline, I thought Bill Gates and company were pushing more crapola.
My preference would be a large, aged, BEEF ribeye, with plenty of mushrooms. Ship all the insect meals to New York, San Francisco, etc.
When things are taken out of context:
“...bird seed to feed my Blue Jay friends, and my wife...”
I know a man in town he nearly died from a mystery illness. It turns out that he picked up a virus from his bird feeder. They are nasty. They poop in their food. I always wash my hands when I fill mine up.
Someone asked a friend of mine if he liked pig’s feet. He said “No...I’ve seen where they walk.”
I had a roommate in the AF that was. We were in the chow hall, and he sat down with a side of black olives from the salad bar. I said “I see you’re having the ‘rabbit roundies’.” He pushed his tray away and lit a cigarette.
ROTFLMAO!
That’ll get her for mixing those damned worms in!
So...I finally finished that load of bird seed out, cleaned it out...and the other day, she dumped a great big container of chili powder on it and mixed it in.
Ugh.
Oh, I absolutely do as well, 100%. I am not a germ freak or anything like that, but my mom didn’t call birds “Dirty Birds” for nothing.
Heh, she didn’t like birds. When my dad was stationed in Newport, RI when we were kids, she took us out to a Carroll’s (just like McDonalds in the day, around 1961) and a seagull crapped on her hamburger.
Scarred her for life, she wouldn’t eat those kinds of burgers again.
traditional animal and plant food will be restricted in the name of the climate crisis
and will become very expensive
bugs will be the only affordable option for many
bugs are yummy
shut up and get on the bus
you will own nothing and be happy...OR ELSE!!
they promise the jetsons
you get the flintstones
“My wife bought some to attract blue birds. They won’t eat them. Nothing will eat them.”
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Birds love mealworms.
Oh chickens like worms and wiggly things. My cousin once held a hatchling snake by their chicken coop and the hens all came up to try to catch it. Which they did and had at it. They also eat their eggs when tossed In To them. They eat lots of stuff Like the goats and pigs do.
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