Just to share something that I am discovering, now that my chickies are scratching around in their run every day.
You would be amazed at the junk they dig up! Every day I make a pass through their 'yard', and pick up at least a small handful of pieces of wire, pieces of plastic, pieces of string, even a piece of blue glass, some screws, cigarette butts, etc.
I think part of this problem is because we haven't lived here long, so we don't really know the history of that piece of ground. There used to be a really old overgrown grape vine there, which we removed.
Just wanted other newbies like me to be aware of this, so maybe you can keep your chickens from eating something bad too. A chicken running around with a cigarette butt in its mouth is quite a sight though!
(I did catch and remove!)
You would be amazed at the junk they dig up! Every day I make a pass through their 'yard', and pick up at least a small handful of pieces of wire, pieces of plastic, pieces of string, even a piece of blue glass, some screws, cigarette butts, etc.
I think part of this problem is because we haven't lived here long, so we don't really know the history of that piece of ground. There used to be a really old overgrown grape vine there, which we removed.
Just wanted other newbies like me to be aware of this, so maybe you can keep your chickens from eating something bad too. A chicken running around with a cigarette butt in its mouth is quite a sight though!
