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Oh the games we play with our peeps! LOL
I do a game with my peeps that's a cross between rugby and baseball. My brooder is a square orchard bin, about 4 feet on a side. I'll go outside and catch some grasshoppers or cut up grapes, etc. Then we'll decide who are the "teams" and put colored spiral leg bands on the peeps to designate sides. Then it's "Faceoff" time and I drop one of whatever the bait is in the center of the brooder. So here's how the scoring works:
We mentally divide the brooder into four equal areas. When one of the peeps grabs the bait and runs, a point is tallied into the "pot" for each one of the four different areas that the chick carrying the bait goes into while running away with the bait in his/her mouth. There is no limit to how many points rack up during this portion of play. If the chick runs circles around the perimeter of the brooder, it adds up quickly. So the points are only awarded to the team of whichever chick ends up eating the bait. In the case of grasshoppers which often get pulled apart, the chick which eats the grasshopper's head wins the points for their team. So it doesn't matter which team is carrying the bait, the points tally into the "pot" and are only awarded to the proper team upon consumption of the bait item.
So after a set number of rounds like this, the winner is the team with the most points. Usually the loser has to get the next round of beers from the fridge. Anyways, it's super great fun, especially experimenting with different bait items. Probably the most pandemonium I ever saw during a game like this was when a small piece of quail meat was dropped in there. WOWEE! They must be carnivores at heart because they didn't work that hard for the grapes and cherries!
Dan
Oh the games we play with our peeps! LOL
I do a game with my peeps that's a cross between rugby and baseball. My brooder is a square orchard bin, about 4 feet on a side. I'll go outside and catch some grasshoppers or cut up grapes, etc. Then we'll decide who are the "teams" and put colored spiral leg bands on the peeps to designate sides. Then it's "Faceoff" time and I drop one of whatever the bait is in the center of the brooder. So here's how the scoring works:We mentally divide the brooder into four equal areas. When one of the peeps grabs the bait and runs, a point is tallied into the "pot" for each one of the four different areas that the chick carrying the bait goes into while running away with the bait in his/her mouth. There is no limit to how many points rack up during this portion of play. If the chick runs circles around the perimeter of the brooder, it adds up quickly. So the points are only awarded to the team of whichever chick ends up eating the bait. In the case of grasshoppers which often get pulled apart, the chick which eats the grasshopper's head wins the points for their team. So it doesn't matter which team is carrying the bait, the points tally into the "pot" and are only awarded to the proper team upon consumption of the bait item.
So after a set number of rounds like this, the winner is the team with the most points. Usually the loser has to get the next round of beers from the fridge. Anyways, it's super great fun, especially experimenting with different bait items. Probably the most pandemonium I ever saw during a game like this was when a small piece of quail meat was dropped in there. WOWEE! They must be carnivores at heart because they didn't work that hard for the grapes and cherries!
Dan
