Chickens will not eat these at all. I started them out on a mealworm product called Honest Worm because it was available at the TSC I bought my chickens from. They couldn't get enough of the Honest Worm mealworms but it's an expensive product. I found these and figured dried mealworms were dried mealworms. Wrong! Even tried soaking them. The chickens not only refuse them but stay away as if they are somehow repugnant, maybe a bad smell from a preservative used in processing? Since these MBTP mealworms are sourced from China, who knows? Complete waste of money!

I love these for my chickens. The worms are large, fresh, and plentiful. I was buying 11 oz bags of mealworms for my chickens from my local stores, which was fine, but the 5 lb bag is only twice as much as I paid for the 11 oz. What a savings! My 6 chickens love the worms. I feed about 3 handfuls a day to them. They are backyard (about 1 acre), free-range chickens and they come running from wherever they are when I call the and rattle the plastic bag I keep the worms in. For convenience, I use a gallon zipper bag feed the chickens from. I just scatter the worms on the ground and the chickens eat them right up. I can't believe how much I am saving by buying these worms in bulk. Plus I will not have to worry about running out so quickly. I am so glad Amazon carries such a large variety of pet food items. I will be reordering these when I get low on them.

My chickens are addicts. It's true. Their eggs are good too. Let's not think too deep on what goes into making them, okay? I rated this product 5 stars more because the chickens seem to Love them. I like them, but they are dried worms. Hard for a human to love, you know. The bag really is a big bag. I have 16 adult chickens, and this WAS lasting me over a month. However, many of my hens went broody recently. I now have 22 baby chicks days old to 3 months old who are eating these now too. Now bag is lucky to last a month. I am generous with amount I give out though. I use a cat food can as my measuring tool. Feed chickens 2 cans full, morning and night. I will be buying this again. Sigh. Addicts.

Anyone who regularly puts out mealworms should definitely jump on this product. Yes, 11 pounds is a pretty big bag of worms so you need to have a place to store it! But the cost-per-pound (or ounce) is a huge savings over getting small bags at the grocery or hardware store. I refill a plastic container and keep that in my ready-on-hand bird feeding stash while the big bag is stored out of the way elsewhere. I've had bluebird families for the last 2 summers, multiple broods each year, and they are quite obviously feeding the babies directly from a platform feeder that I have to refill almost daily during the after-hatch period. Last year I started out the spring season boiling worms to make them soft for feeding babies, but it was quickly clear that the parents were not favoring those over the crunchy ones. After the babies fledge, I regularly see one or both parents with 3 or 4 young-uns all sitting on the feeder and scarfing up these worms! They do this for any brand of mealworms I've ever bought from any source, so I've become a solid customer of this buy-in-bulk product.

UPDATE: We have been feeding these for a year now, and we have one bluebird that will find me in the house and bang on the window with it's feet to ask me to put worms out! Many years ago we had one that did that for live worms. Smart bird!! Of course I'm so impressed that I drop everything and feed them!

We used to go through the mess and trouble of raising live mealworms - YUCK! I read about using these and decided to try them to feed the wild birds. One reviewer said that wild birds don't eat dried mealworms - YES they do! Their problem I think is switching from live to dried. Someone suggested pouring some boiling water over some and soaking for a while to re-hydrate. We did this for a while and gradually added some dried until that's all we gave. I think if you have never given the live, the birds accept them more easily. We have bluebirds, downy woodpeckers, hairy woodpeckers, wrens, cardinals, nuthatches, chickadees,house finches, titmice, yellow rumped warblers, golfinches, sparrows, etc. We have a hanging tray feeder with a mesh bottom (green tray, no top - Amazon) and we also put a suet cake in the middle and worms around. The mesh allows rain to go through, although they eat them so quickly, they wouldn't have time to spoil anyway! By far, our favorite to watch is the feeder with the meal worms and suet. A great price and we are pleased, but more importantly, the birds love them!