So. I've been planning from Day One of getting these chicks, to get them used to coming to the call of "Chick-chick!" so I can get them into the coop at night once they free-range. They liked their oatmeal when thery were little, so that got them started. I've used a few dried meal-worms, too.
Now the Japanese beetles have come out. Every time I head out to the garden or blackberry patch, I bring a cup with a little water in the bottom, and pick beetles into the cup. This year, when I come back, the beetles go to the hens. It's been only 3, maybe 4 days now that I've done this.
I think it's gone beyond "chick-chick." I have to warn you--if I don't post for a few days, someone may want to check on me. Those chicks will hear me coming, with the cupful of scrabbling little beetle legs, and they'll burst open the door of the coop, knock me down, and run me over to get those beetles!
Rhonda
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