Pros and Cons of scratch block

[rosemarythyme]

I buy flock blocks maybe once a year, mainly for use during extended periods of bad weather. I've had to lock my birds in the coop during flooding, and if there's a lot of snow they don't want to come out either, so at those times flock blocks are a convenient way to keep them busy while under confinement, to make up for the temporary lack of space and foraging opportunity.

 

[Brooks_]

I buy flock blocks maybe once a year, mainly for use during extended periods of bad weather. I've had to lock my birds in the coop during flooding, and if there's a lot of snow they don't want to come out either, so at those times flock blocks are a convenient way to keep them busy while under confinement, to make up for the temporary lack of space and foraging opportunity.

Fully reasonable, if you know what you're dealing with.

 

[centrarchid]

Floridians

 

[U_Stormcrow]

Floridians

"Flor-idiots".

Fixed it for you. As the only Florida peep in this conversation (to the best of my knowledge).

Florida - the only State in the Union where you drive North to reach the Deep South!

 

[DuckDuckSook]

I buy flock blocks maybe once a year, mainly for use during extended periods of bad weather. I've had to lock my birds in the coop during flooding, and if there's a lot of snow they don't want to come out either, so at those times flock blocks are a convenient way to keep them busy while under confinement, to make up for the temporary lack of space and foraging opportunity.

I do the same. I currently don't have any chickens as I reduced my flock and only have ducks. But when I had my last chickens, I only gave a flock block in winter when we had inches of snow for several weeks. They were not happy about the weather so I tried to make them a little less annoyed by giving them a flock block as a treat. It lasted for quite a while.