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:eek: Okay, I'll look into stainless steel as building material for my next coop, or maybe Titanium? Tungsten? :p Regarding grit, mine have access to sand, earth, stones of all sizes, pebbles and rocks all over the place because that's what our back garden and their run mostly consists of...

Alright, will feed them that. I do hope the styrofoam from our house wall hasn't been treated with flame retardants, synthetic glue or other strange chemicals that accumulate and stay in the body (the chickens' and ours)

Thanks to all. I'll try to cover it with something inedible, tarp maybe, or plastic. However, the insulation mat on the roof of the coop had already a thin paint-like plastic coating over the styrofoam - they must have spotted a crack in a corner, widened it and then eaten the whole thing up...

I'm not sure any more if I've got chickens or a special kind of feathered locusts. For about 3 months I've had my chickens free ranging in our back garden. I sometimes wondered why there were pieces of styrofoam lying around but thought they just dug up some old stuff from the ground. Then, one...