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    what do you all do to keep your birds from being too bored all winter?what do you feed for treats?

    Gil, here's more info on pomegranate- http://www.simplyrecipes.com/m/recipes/how_to_cut_and_de_seed_a_pomegranate/ It's actually not a seed the way we typically think of seeds we use for chicken treats-rather than hard/dried, these seeds are soft and juicy fruits. It's delicious in salads...
  2. deacons

    what do you all do to keep your birds from being too bored all winter?what do you feed for treats?

    lo Mine love them too! I put a half that still has some seeds left into a suet feeder, cut side facing out, and they went nuts for them!
  3. deacons

    what do you all do to keep your birds from being too bored all winter?what do you feed for treats?

    Great Great idea! Sort of like a haynet for horses, which keeps my mare busy all night long so she doesn't eat her hay in 5 minutes and then stand all night without any!
  4. deacons

    what do you all do to keep your birds from being too bored all winter?what do you feed for treats?

    I put mine on a large bolt that hangs from a chain. I need to add a washer or something to it though, because this is what happens when they get overly exuberant towards the end:
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    what do you all do to keep your birds from being too bored all winter?what do you feed for treats?

    Mine were thrilled to get some sun and temps in the 20s today! Here they are with a fresh cabbage (haven't put one out in awhile since it would have been frozen rock solid given our temps the past two weeks.
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    what do you all do to keep your birds from being too bored all winter?what do you feed for treats?

    Interesting- are you meaning that after Christmas, you will put your old Christmas tree out in the run for them to play around on? Never thought about that, but I like that idea. Is anything in the pine harmful to them?
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    what do you all do to keep your birds from being too bored all winter?what do you feed for treats?

    Not a whole lot of new ideas to add. My husband built me this fun contraption for cabbage tetherball: http://www.communitychickens.com/2011/05/boredom-buster.html#.UmaZ0FMenNo. They do love it (hated the Halloween pumpkins I gave them though, which chickens are supposed to love, so who knows)...
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