How to entertain my chicken

[WildCHILD400]

My girls get bored sometimes and want to free range but I'm not always home. What are some good intertwining toys for them any ideas? I have a big 2 liter coke bottle full of grit and chicken feed for them to roll around but it's a bit heavy for them.

 

[lilmillefleur]

You can hand lettuce and things they like from a string for them to jump.

 

[chicknextdoor]

My girls love it when I tie up a "Tether Ball" of cabbage, lettuce, or cucumber and hang it from the ceiling of the coop or run. I let it hang just low enough to the point where they have to jump to get a bite, and it keeps them fixated for hours!

 

[WildCHILD400]

I'll try it

 

[User395221]

My girls like jumping in veggie boxes to see what's there, rather than me flinging their salad around

 

[lazy gardener]

Stack 3 hay bales up pyramid fashion with an open space between the bottom 2 bales. I place a piece of plywood over the open space, then add the top bale. This gives them a mountain, as well as a tunnel/cave. You can also open a bale of hay to let them spread it and scratch through it. Give them a mountain of garden weeds. Give them a cooked chicken carcass or other meaty bones.

 

[WildCHILD400]

I have given them meat on the carcass before they ate it fine. But I've never heard of the hay bale mountain sounds cool tho thx!

 

[Mrs. K]

Roosts, obstacles, platforms, hideouts, little walls. I use cement blocks, pallets and old saw horses to arrange and re-ararange their run.