What is in your run for "entertainment"?

[Going Quackers]

i just put it flat on the ground. They mess around the inside and will perch on the sidewall of the tire. When it snows i run the shovel over the top of the tire to clean it off and the sun just melts it quickly. they have a warm soft perch. I used a 4 wheel tire, a lawnmower tire and two regular tires over the space of the run for them.

Love it! appreciate the picture! I don't have any small tires but i could easily purchase a small one.. great idea.

 

[Going Quackers]

I agree, my chickens don't play as such... They are more food driven so----I hang the suet cake cages in the coop and stuff them with greens/bread/cabbage 1/4s what ever I have. I have a dish pan that I fill with water and in the summer, I freeze milk jugs full of water and I put them out in the dishpan to cool them off. I use a 3x3 pc of plywood to cover a handful of birdseed which I have watered and left to sprout for a few days, I move it around doing the same thing each time.. I grow approx. 2 acres of sunflowers --I cut them and hang the entire head/stalk for them . We also plant a large patch of greens , each day they get a 5gl. bucket full of them roots/dirt and all.. They get whole pumpkins/winter squash in the fall, I rake all the leaves and throw it into their run.. I also give them bird seed daily..summer time they get grass clippings from the mower.. I have too many predators to let them free range all the time so I try to fill the voids with things they would find if they were out...

I have some sunflowers myself but just small ones, perhaps i should chop their heads(that sounds so bad lol) I also have a suet cage, you've given some great ideas. I have given mine some cold watermelon on the hot days, boy do they peck that clean! I also did the grass clippings, i didn't know about leaves mind you the grass was mixed with them.

 

[fishnet1971]

there are sooooooo many disposed of tires around you should be able to find one at no cost around you. Check with your local tire shop. They have to pay to get rid of them, I bet they would gladly give you one or two. Check your local ditches. lol... Sorry, not funny, but we have people dumping tires in our ditches left and right. Your junk yards may give you one or two as well. I did drill holes in the bottom side of the tire so it didnt hold water and become a mosquito haven.

 

[1dude]

I have broken up some oyster shells in one area. The rest of the run I dumped a 2 bags of mulch for scratching. I'm in Florida, so by the time my birds are big enough to go in the coop all kinds of strange things will be living in there.