>"No! Fly maggots will kill your chickens," he says. "They get all
>wobbly and can't hold their heads up, then they fall over and eventually
>die."
>
>He didn't know the causative agent, but mentioned that these symptoms
>were well known and were referred to as "limberneck."
While I usually drop maggots into the fish ponds, as those fishies love
them so, my chickens do eat them when I uncover my compost piles to turn or
add. They haven't gotten sick yet. Maybe different kinds of maggots
produced by different flies produce different results.
Also, I have quite a collection of frogs and toads hanging around the
compost piles, safely under the covers--the chickens love them too.
Those chickens eat everything...saw one finishing off a mouse the cat had
gotten and discarded.
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