Chickens are the ONLY thing around here that will eat the adult Japanese Beetles - the copper & green ones, not the ones that look like lady bugs - NO ONE eats them, or Box Elder Bugs. YUCK!
I had a Jung’s customer who helped us out greatly in the Nursery Yard - she wasn’t the least bit squeamish, and she’d pick off Japanese Beetles as she found them (Yes, we had a few, despite traps and all that) and she’d take them home and give them to her chickens.
While I KNOW what goes into a chicken and comes out an egg - there are some things I DON’T want to know, LOL!
ALSO - the Plum Preserves you gave me last summer for my Birthday? We ate half of it, but then the Orioles showed up and I had no grape jelly, so I gave them some of the plum and they are really enjoying it. They’re pretty demanding, already, the Freeloaders! :)
Glad they like the jam :)
And yes, I think the fact that chickens will eat JBs is what finally sold my dad on the idea. They keep eating the blossoms off his magnolia and rose bushes.