Natural Chicken Keeping: Meal Worms

Ahhh, fall! A time of beautiful foliage on the trees and fewer feathers on your birds. During the molt, chickens need a diet of higher protein to help their bodies produce more feathers. And eggs? Yeah – in any laying hen over the age of 9 months, you can expect far fewer (if any) eggs until they have finished molting and recovered fully.

Read about the Molting process HERE.
Read more about molting HERE.

While chickens love meal worms year-round, molting time is a great time to make sure your flock get plenty of this high-protein treat! Scratch grains average only about 8% protein but meal worms? Try 52% protein, babyyy! THAT is what your chickens need more of in order to thrive!

Recently the Picky Neb Mealworm Company sent me a 30oz bag of their product to try out and review, and let me just say… I can’t say enough good things about their product! The first thing I noticed was that the Picky Neb mealworms are LARGER than the mealworms I have seen from other companies. That makes them easier for the chickens to find when I toss them in the coop or outside in the grass. And when the chickens can find their snacks easily, it means less waste.

Did my birds love them? Let’s just say that since I started tossing this delicious treat into my chicken yard, the birds have picked up the habit of loitering about my back door, waiting…
And when I go out, I had best have those snacks with me lest I face the wrath of those mother-cluckers!

When they heard we were reviewing a new product, my flock quickly started vying for the title of “Picky Neb Spokesbird.”

 “Picky Neb Mealworms… Almost as pretty as we are!”

  “Picky Neb Mealworms make me jump for joy!”

  “If you’re picky, pick Picky Neb Mealworms.”

(Try saying that sentence 3 times as fast as you can.)

  “Hello. I’m Harriet and I pick Picky Neb Mealworms.” 

  “Picky Neb Mealworms… gobble them up before the guinea fowl grab them all!”

  “I stand by my endorsement of Picky Neb Mealworms…
God, I’m sexy!”

 “Giving thanks for my Picky Neb Mealworms.”

(What? It’s fowl humor!)

And those are the only photos in which the product could be seen. The rest of the photos I took were comprised of 25++ fluffy chicken butts swarming the bag.

 I can honestly say that my flock and I love this product!

Find them on Amazon HERE.




Disclosure: I received a free 30oz bag of Picky Neb Meal Worms from the Picky Neb company in exchange for writing a review on the Natural Chicken Keeping blog.  I only do reviews for products that fit well with this blog and that I truly recommend.