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SheepMad95

  • Joined Sep 2012
Toys
« on: October 27, 2012, 09:50:07 am »
i have 3 coops of chickens, and i cant move the houses but i can move the runs, but atm i have a broken wrist and so i cant move the runs for them to get fresh grass... so i was wondering if anyone has made any toys etc for their own chickens? i have tried tieing a carrot to a piece of string and dangling it down the run, but then they didnt know what to do with it and it went mouldy..

so yeah, does any one have any ideas? i hate to think that they are bored.

Thaaaankss :D
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3rd generation, blonde scattered brained farmer. 1 jack russel x patterdale, 1 collie, 5 chickens, 6 cats, 63 breeding ewes & 5 cows. hopefully some pigs soon!!  working on fathers beef and arable farm. and relief milker!

bloomer

  • Joined Aug 2010
    • leslie, fife
  • i have chickens, sheep and opinions!!!
Re: Toys
« Reply #1 on: October 27, 2012, 09:51:57 am »
try the same with a cabbage mine used to go bonkers for it!!!
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jaykay

  • Joined Aug 2012
    • Cumbria/N Yorks border
Re: Toys
« Reply #2 on: October 27, 2012, 10:06:28 am »
Cabbage and broccoli tied up. Also millet sprays (I think you buy them for budgies and parrots, just don't tell the chooks that  :D).

When mine lived in a town garden in a run, they also seemed to like a small heap of straw thrown into their run, with corn scattered in it - gave them something to scratch and hunt in.
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Victorian Farmer

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Re: Toys
« Reply #3 on: October 27, 2012, 10:09:13 am »
pumpkins          :excited:
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gillsta

  • Joined Apr 2011
    • Methlick Aberdeenshire
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Re: Toys
« Reply #4 on: October 27, 2012, 10:58:59 am »
Pumpkins at the moment are going down a treat. Just cut a small hole in each one to start them off. Lots of fun for the chickens. Ours love them.
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SheepMad95

  • Joined Sep 2012
Re: Toys
« Reply #5 on: October 27, 2012, 12:43:45 pm »
ahh thank you all!! on monday i shall go to a shop and get some of these :)
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3rd generation, blonde scattered brained farmer. 1 jack russel x patterdale, 1 collie, 5 chickens, 6 cats, 63 breeding ewes & 5 cows. hopefully some pigs soon!!  working on fathers beef and arable farm. and relief milker!

plumseverywhere

  • Joined Apr 2013
    • Worcestershire
    • Its Baaath Time
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Re: Toys
« Reply #6 on: October 27, 2012, 05:24:47 pm »
We have a largish boulder in the chicken run and every now and then we turn it onto a new side, exposing all the worms, woodlice and bugs that have congregated - they love those days (bugs probably don't)
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chrismahon

  • Joined Dec 2011
    • Gascony, France
Re: Toys
« Reply #7 on: October 27, 2012, 06:59:29 pm »
Throw a bag of leaves in, ours love scratching around in them. If you collect oak leaves they can be raked ouwhen soiled to make excellent leaf mulch.


Ours like green cabbage. We hung a red cabbage up once and i went down a few hours later to find them all against the sides of the run staring at this cabbage. I think they thought it was some dead animal or something so I removed it immediately and things returned to normal.
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deepinthewoods

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Re: Toys
« Reply #8 on: October 27, 2012, 07:29:54 pm »
 ;D  ill have to try that!.
 
i like to throw half a small bale of straw in, that will keep them occupied for a while, or a bucket of still cooking compost.
 
a live mouse can be fun to watch in a chicken pen, but not as good as throwing a cat in :o
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