How do you hang your Cabbage?!

[Rennie]

Most of the cabbage mine eat come from my garden so i can pull them up with a long enough stalk to tie string onto ..

Only thing is mine dont eat it when its swinging ..When its on the floor with no movement they rip it to shreds .. I think they prefer football to swing ball

 

[CoopmasterK]

I run a metal kitchen skewer through the cabbage to make a hole. Then I push an 8" - 10" piece of baling wire through the hole. I bend the baling wire into an "L" at the bottom to support the cabbage and make it into a hook at the top. I then have a piece of kitchen twine, fishing line, kite string, whatever, tied to a support and I tie the other end into a loop which will slide over the hook in the baling wire. As baling wire is very malleable, I can easily unbend the "L" at the bottom to remove a "spent" head of cabbage and hang a new one. Hope this helps. Cheers.

 

[biddyboo]

We nailed a large nail with head into one of the 2 x 4's framing our coop, which is raised from the ground about 3 feet. I impale a head of cabbage with a railroad type spike. I tightly tie the twine around the head of the spike and then, making a loop in the other end of the twine, I hang it from the nail driven into the coop. The cabbage hangs in the space under the coop for them to bat around and gobble down. They wipe out a whole head of cabbage in an afternoon--I still can't believe my eyes when I see them going after this toy. I've studied the hangars and twine after reading the vet clinic concern, but I don't see a problem with out setup and my girls have been enjoying this all summer. Word of warning: red cabbage makes bright teal poops! ~G

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

look for those wire cube storage units, wire one edge to the wire wall of the run snug, then wire the left and right sides to the run wall, but use long lengths of wire that you twist back on themselves for safety. This creates a type of gravity/hay style feeder you can drop greens and cabbage into from the open top.

want to be real crafty a jig saw or dremel will cut through the wire cube panels so you can wire them together and build a cage with lid (angled) to mount to the wall, or a cube to sit on the ground. I wil build a cube inside a cube to help keep the greens and other goodies pushed out towards the outer edges so they can peck at it easily.

 

[harrisville chicken]

A wire coat hanger works for me.

 

[ginbart]

My DH drills a hole through it for me and I use the plastic cloths line. I make a loop on the one end to hang it from and put the line through the cabbage and tie at that end.

 

[spammy]

cheap nylon fish stringer..loop it over a branch stick the probe into the middle. payed 99 cents for mine

 

[dianneS]

I've never personally hung a cabbage head, but there is a wire hanging in our coop that I think the previous owners used for hanging cabbage. I thought I would use that wire if I ever try it.

 

[Russo's Roost]

I think I have the solution you are all looking for. I take a wire coat hanger, cut off the hook, straighten it out and push one end through the head starting at the stem, sometimes I have to do it 2 or 3 times to get it in the middle and then I push enough through bring it back up to the top and hook it around the wire on the top. This leavs abour 12-16 inches sticking out the top to hang from anywhere you want to, on a wall or from an overhead structure. I'll try to remember to take pictures the next time and post them.

 

[OrpingtonManor]

my solution is similar to many others....
I drive a 16D nail into the core (not quite all the way in) and tie a nylon rope to the nail head, then loop it over the rafter of the pen or coop (depending on the weather). They (4 hens) finish it in about a day. Chicken pinata! They love it.