A ? about molting for Speckledhen and anyone else that knows?

[DawnSuiter]

leg straps maybe?

 

[SallyF]

They used to sell a chain of some kind to put in the bottom of draperies to hold them down. You might try the drapery department of a fabric store if you happen to be in one sometime. Also beaded chain comes in different weights at the hardward stores; maybe that might work?

 

[CityClucks]

Just chiming since the subject of what chickens will eat and the word "nickels" was touched on.

One Sunday morning when I was about 5 years old my church offering of 25 cents, composed of 2 dimes and a nickel, was grasped in my sweaty little hand. We stopped somewhere for something and somehow I ended up filling that hand with grain to feed to some chickens - my change was underneath the feed. ...You see where this story is going... When the chickens had finished the grain, my two dimes and nickel had disappeared as well. I cried, devastated because the chickens had eaten my offering. I'm over it now, though.

It's amazing the large and weirdly shaped items that can disappear down a chicken gullet!

 

[Kittymomma]

Hi,

How about using pencil led? Not the writing kind lol, but the stuff that you use for fishing. I think it would be heavy enough and it comes in rolled up lengths that you can cut to length.

 

[gritsar]

Well, Lilith ate piece of broken glass the size of my thumbnail once. She's also eaten at least two soda can tabs that I know of, before I broke DH of the habit of pulling them off and tossing them in the yard.
This chicken LOOKS for non-edible things to eat.
Gonna keep experimenting.