Eating Styrofoam brooder......help

[secuono]

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Lol! That's exactly what went through my mind when I saw them doing it. I was like, "What the heck chickies, do you think it's popcorn or something?! No no no!" They just cheeped and ran to a new corner. They don't like me yet, I haven't started feeding treats.

 

[chillmiller]

duct tape while making a new one

but chickens will take a crack at ANYTHING i had a few spent shotgun shells littering my yard the chickens where running all over with them thinking they where... god knows what

 

[secuono]

lol. Well, the birds in the barn are picky and wont eat things too hard, too cold, too wet, too....whatever lol


Found cardboard and taped it up.

 

[gryeyes]

The Styrofoam eating thing was one reason why I decided against using it for my brooders. I went with the Rubbermaid bins. I really wanted to find a use for those Styrofoam chests I get with mailed perishables!

I have chickens who will come into the house and LOOK for Styrofoam peanuts from packing, after one found the bag where I stored 'em and pecked a hole in it so they spilled out onto the kitchen floor. (Right next to my back door, where they sneak in if the dogs have pushed the screen door open...)

I don't know how they shared the information, but I have chased more than one chicken out of the house, and snatched a Styrofoam bit from 'em. Jeez, I guess some of those things rolled under the table and I missed 'em!

 

[secuono]

If they are the green edible ones, that would be fine, but what's with pets and wanting to eat non-edible things..? lol.

 

[elizabethbinary]

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Mine find this true as well. Most delicious styrofoam ever.

I don't put them in styro things any more......