Chickens love mealworm treats as they contain protein, fats and essential amino acids – providing an easy way to supplement their diets naturally while encouraging healthier behaviors and wellbeing in their flocks.
Mealworms’ high protein content also aids poultry through moulting by supporting feather regrowth.
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Protein
Protein is essential to all living things, including chickens. It plays an integral part in growth, tissue repair and maintenance, enzyme production and immune system health.
Mealworms provide your flock with essential proteins for overall health and feather regrowth during moulting, including when sick or weak birds need additional energy sources during moulting or growth spurts. Plus, their abundance of leucine and lysine aid in tissue regeneration as well as feather regrowth during moulting!
Our dried mealworms are hand-selected yellow mealworms processed through a unique process to preserve all their vital nutrients and amino acids for maximum nutritional benefit for your flock. Unlike microwave processes that typically leave behind an empty shell that offers little value, our mealworms offer delicious protein snacks your flock will adore!
Vitamins
Chicken ladies love mealworms: these nutritious insects provide protein, vitamins and minerals at an unbeatably affordable cost, making mealworms the ideal way to supplement the nutrition of your flock’s diet. Furthermore, mealworms contain amino acids (which aid hens during moulting season) as well as fats for maximum benefit during this season of moulting.
If you want to introduce mealworms gradually and in small quantities, we advise doing it gradually and in small doses so as to prevent overfeeding or digestive problems in your flock.
Dried mealworms provide your chickens with essential vitamins and minerals such as B12, iron, thiamine, magnesium and calcium. In addition they contain high levels of lysine which aids broiler growth by optimizing protein digestion. You can feed dried mealworms as treats alone or mix into their regular feed; when rehydrated they regain their color and almost double in size before being ready for consumption directly or mixed in with dry feed like crumbs or pellets.
Minerals
Chickens require a diet rich in nutrients for optimal health and wellness, making enrichments such as mealworms and calf-manna from your backyard essential nutrients they might otherwise miss in their regular feed.
These treats may also include fresh vegetables and fruits such as vegetable peels, leafy greens like kale, spinach and chard; apples, oranges, bananas strawberries raspberries peaches etc – however remember only up to 10% of your flock’s diet should consist of fruits & veg!
Mealworms provide chickens with protein-rich diets, helping them produce beautiful plumage and supporting feather re-growth during molting season. Mealworms also serve as an excellent source of vitamins and minerals such as phosphorus, crude fiber and amino acids; however too much mealworm consumption could pose health concerns and disrupt a balanced diet in your flock.
Enrichment
Chickens love mealworms and it is an absolute joy to watch them race one another for a bite of this protein-rich treat! However, too many mealworms can be harmful as too much protein can be detrimental to their health; when fed moderately they provide great supplements that support egg and feather health and support natural foraging behavior while at the same time stimulating natural foraging behavior.
Moulting season can be challenging for birds, so dried insects provide a dense source of protein to assist their feather regrowth faster. Dried insects make an excellent supplement to any flock and should be scattered through enrichment devices like dig boxes and Hentastic Boredom Busters in order to promote natural foraging and pecking behaviors in your flock.
As well as their nutritional advantages, insects offer another form of enrichment for domesticated poultry: enrichment tools such as insects can serve to train and tame your flock by encouraging natural behaviors while stimulating senses, relieving stress and creating happiness within their flock.
