They provide a valuable source of protein that helps your flock be healthy and thrive. These little creatures are not only delicious snacks for your chickens, but have numerous benefits that will help you keep your flock healthy and happy. Mealworms enjoy scavenging for food in dark and dry places and can often infest flour, cereals, or feed sacks. Larva sheds its moult into a pupa which hatches into the final form, the beetle.
They start out as eggs which then hatch into larvae or mealworms.
These insects go through four stages of the life cycle and mealworm is one of them. Mealworm is actually not a worm but a larva of a parent insect, the Darkling Beetle. This may seem weird to us as most people are grossed out by just looking at them, but for chicks, mealworms are quite a delicacy. Just a small handful of these squishy little things can make chickens go nuts. If you’ve ever fed your backyard flock with mealworms, then you know what I’m talking about. Just like humans, chickens also enjoy getting a taste of some delicious snacks.
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