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Barnyard Buddies:  Hen's vs. Colorado Potato bugs  |
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queenmushroom
True Blue Farmgirl
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Lorena
Centerville
Me
USA
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 Posted - May 29 2012 : 4:26:02 PM
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Do chickens eat colorado potato beetles?
Lorie
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oldbittyhen
True Blue Farmgirl
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tina
quartz hill
ca
USA
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Posted - May 29 2012 : 5:21:56 PM
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chickens will eat pretty much any kind of bug, mine love the scorpions that make the fatal mistake of walking thru their pen ( we call them desert lobster here, lol)...
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SheilaC
True Blue Farmgirl
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Sheila
Vermont
USA
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Posted - May 29 2012 : 6:31:19 PM
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mine didn't. We had enough Col potato beetles to feed a huge army of chickens last year and they just weren't interested in them, even when we picked them off the plants (every day, twice a day!!) and dropped them in front of them -- they wouldn't even eat the larval stage. We just had to pick them off and drop them in soapy water.
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Annab
True Blue Farmgirl
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Anna
Seagrove
NC
USA
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Posted - May 30 2012 : 4:30:56 PM
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Ours sure don't 
Pity 'cause the 'tater patch sure gets overrun sometimes! |
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Megan
True Blue Farmgirl
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Megan
Hudson
South Dakota
USA
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Posted - May 31 2012 : 11:13:26 AM
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My dad uses ducks to eat the garden bugs, and i have free range drakes that keep up with mine.... i dont have any idea what a potatoe bug is but dad said that he has them? but i have tomatoes and peppers
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oldbittyhen
True Blue Farmgirl
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tina
quartz hill
ca
USA
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Posted - May 31 2012 : 11:54:58 AM
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Megan, I use Moscovy ducks to help keep down the flies in the barns, they are wonderful...
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queenmushroom
True Blue Farmgirl
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Lorena
Centerville
Me
USA
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Posted - Jun 03 2012 : 2:27:32 PM
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Will have to keep ducks in mind, however, I have no pond nearby to keep them in.
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queenmushroom
True Blue Farmgirl
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Lorena
Centerville
Me
USA
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Posted - Jun 03 2012 : 2:29:37 PM
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Potato bugs are red/orange with black stripes. the first and second year we had potatoes, no problem with them at all. Last year, forget it. We had them comming out the wazzooo.
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oldbittyhen
True Blue Farmgirl
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tina
quartz hill
ca
USA
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Posted - Jun 03 2012 : 3:31:20 PM
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Lorena, moscovy ducks are very happy with just a small plastic childs pool, the hard plastic, not blowup type, I pick them up at yard sales, and a couple of times on the side of the road, just dump and rinse as needed, or your garden will love that duck water also...
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Megan
True Blue Farmgirl
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Megan
Hudson
South Dakota
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Posted - Jun 05 2012 : 09:36:40 AM
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my free ranged ducks have some round rubber feed pans that i fill to give them water in all over the farm, they seem to do all right.... dont let them out on the garden if you just are getting sprouts up, as they like them alot!
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queenmushroom
True Blue Farmgirl
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Lorena
Centerville
Me
USA
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Posted - Jun 05 2012 : 1:58:58 PM
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Ok thanx a bunch. I'll have to keep that in mind. Have got alot going on right now.
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