Comment by 317070
1 month ago
Well, chickens tend to live off insects when you let them roam.
I don't really see how insect powder would be worse than the flour they get now. You don't even need to turn the bugs into a powder.
1 month ago
Well, chickens tend to live off insects when you let them roam.
I don't really see how insect powder would be worse than the flour they get now. You don't even need to turn the bugs into a powder.
To be fair, chickens can see and discriminate between insects before putting them in their mouths. Powdered insects preclude that.
Likewise, cows would never eat a carcass cow, but as hamburger mixed with a lot of grass...
> To be fair, chickens can see (insects)
Yes, they do that
> and discriminate between insects
Yeah, they do not do that.
They also eat mice, which I guess came as quite a surprise to the cat that was stalking the mouse, although not half as much as to the mouse.
Chickens eat anything they can. Sometimes including eggs and chicks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannibalism_in_poultry
Indeed we already feed them insects and we don't powder them. You can purchase bags of dried meal worms at the feed store. The carcasses are fully intact.