Boredom busters

RollinWithTheStones

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Chick's have their own space in the coop, but they've started to seem bored. What types of things can I do to keep them entertained till they get to integrate and free range.

Space is 12x12 with 2 dozen chicks that are 7ish weeks old.
 
Chickens do entertain themselves by pecking and scratching and dust bathing. A cabbage to peck is a good entertainment, so is a dust bath and I also give the chicks a bucket of moist soil from my vegetable garden so they can scratch and find the bugs and worms buried in the soil.
 
You can add swings and perches they enjoy those, and dust bathing spaces if you don’t have already
 
Someday I'd like to put together something like this with an old bicycle wheel. Most pictures of these contraptions show that people routinely don't cover the spokes, with the bird only running on the tire (seems dangerous to me). This design has a platform covering the spokes that the bird runs on:
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