How to Keep Chickens From being Bored

[crowsnestfarms]

well i just took some string and put a stick in the corner to hang an old shiny windows cd from, works pretty well, this is the only good thing windows vista ever did....

LOL!!!! Now that's funny!

 

[Chickenlady2013]

Do you take the seeds out of grapes before giving them to your chickens?

 

[azygous]

Why would you take the seeds out of grapes before giving them to chickens?

 

[Chickenlady2013]

Choking hazard

 

[buffsrhodies]

Hello,

I put sunflower seeds in those plastic golf practice balls , the ones with holes in them, and as they roll around the seeds pop out. The Isa Brown was the smartest of them all and had a great time with it. She would roll it around and eat all the seeds. Quite funny..

Buffsrhodies.

 

[azygous]

Oh. I see that grapes left in their intact round shape could be a choking hazard, but I still don't see how the seeds could choke a chicken. Seeds are one of the things they're engineered to eat, what with their marvelous little crops and all.

I have had a hen choke on a cherry tomato once, about the size of a grape, as a matter of fact, and she might have died if I hadn't been present when she fell over from lack of oxygen to her brain. Unless a seed is the same size as a chicken's airway, it shouldn't present a problem. Has anyone ever had a chicken choke on a seed?

 

[Chickenlady2013]

Thx for the info. It was an inquiry only.

 

[lorain's fids]

Hello,

I put sunflower seeds in those plastic golf practice balls , the ones with holes in them, and as they roll around the seeds pop out. The Isa Brown was the smartest of them all and had a great time with it. She would roll it around and eat all the seeds. Quite funny..

Buffsrhodies.

I do like this idea.

 

[Chickens R Us]

X2

 

[chicken farmer]

My chickens LOVE the stumps and big tree roots I put in the chicken pen and they spend a lot of there day in the stumps and logs...they like to roost and be up high as they can to sleep and feel safe and just to look around.EVERYONE should do this as long as they have enough room