I havea pic of my white rock hen proudly carrying a small frog in her mouth... ( she then played keep away till she could shred it and eat it) And they love japanese beatles... I think ticks would be eaten too.. especially if it had blood in it ( having fed them raw meat I know they are blood thristy )
--- In CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com, "lafleche49" <hobbyguy@...> wrote:
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> The middle weight large fowl breeds of chickens will eat ticks and a lot of other insects and arachnids that most people don't even think about such as long leg spiders, moths, and walking sticks. Good bug foragers are Campines, Lakenvelders, Dominiques, Spanish, Sumatras, Hamburgs, Buttercups, Andalusians, and La Fleche are but a few of the old breeds that once gained the majority of their living in this manner.
> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9551478
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> I have a lot of La Fleche bantams and in my opinion they are hard to beat as insect controllers around my place. From dawn till dusk there is not a cricket or grasshopper with the nerve to make so much as a buzz for fear of being found and eaten. Of course I have to admit a little prejudice in the case of this breed. LOL
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> Something that I have not heard anyone mention on most of these poultry boards is the fact that chickens and some other fowl can be hosts to certain species of ticks. I found a few sites that share quite a bit of information on this subject.
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