birds eating pests.
Theladygardens@aol.com (Fri, 06 Jan 2006 23:24:16 PST)

John, I have chickens. If I gather 200 snails in a bucket and dump them all
in the chicken pen at once, the chickens eat a few and quit. If I sit down
and throw them into the chicken pen one at a time, they run and fight over
each one and will eat all 200.
The first time I bought fly predators and dumped them into the chicken pen,
they promptly ate everyone of them within minutes. Well, I can learn. Now
I wait until nightfall, put the predators around the coup in the dark, put
them under boards, etc and hopefully I am not just wasting money.
Carolyn