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CSAchook said:
So friends, question for you. I am going to expand my run (probably be hearing more about that later). While I am making it bigger, I would also like to make it more interesting. Currently there are a couple perches but that is it. What do you all have for fun in the run?
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I have a window box with hardware cloth over top and grass growing in it. Once it grows through the wire they get to eat it.
 
CSAchook said:
So friends, question for you. I am going to expand my run (probably be hearing more about that later). While I am making it bigger, I would also like to make it more interesting. Currently there are a couple perches but that is it. What do you all have for fun in the run?
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My chickens don’t use run. Well my bantams do but they have small trees and a log pile. I have heard mirrors and dirt boxes r fun but most runs turn into dirt boxes anyway
 
CapricornFarm said:
I have a window box with hardware cloth over top and grass growing in it. Once it grows through the wire they get to eat it.
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TexasSam said:
My chickens don’t use run. Well my bantams do but they have small trees and a log pile. I have heard mirrors and dirt boxes r fun but most runs turn into dirt boxes anyway
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You can put a swing in it, look up chicken swing on Amazon. Other things would be toys for parrots, a little tykes toddler slide, or the toddler cube that has the slide with it. A small soccer or basket ball, a xylphone attached to the run or coop, other musical toys like drums, cow bells, a toy piano, anything that makes noise when pecked. Things that move when they peck it should also work. Basically, as long as they can't easily destroy it, anything that a child up to about 2 yrs old would play with that you think they would enjoy. You can even use old wind chimes, just fix it so they are lined up on a string or loosely nailed on a board so they can make noise when pecked.

I have a lot of ideas, it's just not all that easy to describe them all. Basically, look at things like a kid who wants to explore and touch everything. What would be fun, and then think of all the things that could be choking hazards, could it be dismantled/destroyed by a beak, and if so, will it cause damage to the bird, or can it be swallowed.
 
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Anansi said:
You can put a swing in it, look up chicken swing on Amazon. Other things would be toys for parrots, a little tykes toddler slide, or the toddler cube that has the slide with it. A small soccer or basket ball, a xylphone attached to the run or coop, other musical toys like drums, cow bells, a toy piano, anything that makes noise when pecked. Things that move when they peck it should also work. Basically, as long as they can't easily destroy it, anything that a child up to about 2 yrs old would play with that you think they would enjoy. You can even use old wind chimes, just fix it so they are lined up on a string or loosely nailed on a board so they can make noise when pecked.

I have a lot of ideas, it's just not all that easy to describe them all. Basically, look at things like a kid who wants to explore and touch everything. What would be fun, and then think of all the things that could be choking hazards, could it be dismantled/destroyed by a beak, and if so, will it cause damage to the bird, or can it be swallowed.
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I know exactly what you mean about safety.
I’m super critical about pet toys.
I’m sure I’ve pissed off store managers when I go down the toy aisle telling people not to buy stuff they have in their hands and then point out why.

Honestly I can’t for the life of me figure out how half this crap even makes it from conception to the store shelves without SOMEBODY saying, “eh, maybe not.”
 
One thing mine really really liked were tree stumps.

I had a large very heavy stump they liked to dig around and hop on. When it rotted away U had 2 saw horses with a piece of plywood screwed to the top. They would laze about under it and sun on top.

A screw eye on a small rope works to hang an apple, cabbage or ear of corn. I only hang a treat occasionally but it's a hoot.
 

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