Styrofoam!!

[JakRat]

gah! I saw one of my girls running around with something just now and I thought that it was a yard mushroom... when I went out to get it it turned out to be styrofoam! No idea how that got in our yard but she did eat a bit of it and another 2 got a bit of a nibble... stupid creatures! Is there anything I should do about this?

 

[Buff Hooligans]

I did a BYC Search on styrofoam and found this: https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=263684

 

[tulie13]

Yep, styrofoam is like chicken popcorn - they love it, especially when they are watching movies in the coop with a pirated signal from your satellite TV...

 

[NYREDS]

They'll be fine

 

[3goodeggs]

It will pass.
I think they just like to get a rise from us. They like the attention and fuss we make over them when they do something stupid.
Mine ate a a rubber band. She has more spring in her step.
I made sure she had oyster shell to help grind it up.
But she got me all worked up too. Ridiculous bird.

 

[JakRat]

LOL

ok I feel better now! geez im going to be one mess of a mom when i have kids if i am making such a fuss ovef my girls!

 

[3goodeggs]

No, Kids have the opposite problem. They won't eat anything...until they become teenagers.

 

[S&N Livestock]

When I first started hatching a few years ago I had a hova-bator. The chicks in the brooder soon grew and not thinking I left the incubator in the new coop where I turned the started birds into. The next morning all I had left was the heating element and some plastic parts.All chickens were fine but the hova-bator was no more.