I will have to try the string. I usually hold it and they pluck away. It's hilarious really how they go crazy for it . They are really smart, when they hear me pull it from work, they get SOOO loud and start jumping around . Thats when I give them their corn and boy do they know it. At first I...
I will have to try something like that. I was giving the mealworms to them because my sisters chicks went nuts over them and I wanted to give them a treat. One sniff and mine turned their heads and walked away. They won't even eat an earthworm that crawled over their foot ;-)
I must have strange chickens because they will not touch the mealworms. I've tried several times . Everyone else I know with chickens says their flock loves them :-)