I water the ground in the evening and place a log on the area, in the a.m. I flip it over and they all run to get the bugs that hide under it.

Put a bug zapper out there and every morning they got bugs on ground

Special needs bird? 😆

You'd have to be awfully bored yourself...and have way too much free time ...to even think about putting clothes on chickens...😂

You're a good chicken mama :) One easy thing you can do is just create a small compost pile (keep it balanced, not overloaded with food scraps and you will have no smell) in their run - give them things to hunt through that they will enjoy and bugs will come and delight them to pick through. Also, yes you can freeze raw pumpkin (and the seeds with stringy pulp I might add) and they will love it. I'll pulled out frozen pumpkin during the summer for them to cool off and enjoy. Hanging corn cobs that the family didn't clean off perfectly, cabbage is always a favorite to allow pecking & it's good for them. I also like to give our melon rind with a bit of melon left on it. Most chickens adore bushes with a bit of clearance to hide under and explore (they love to hide under evergreens & even fruited briars to protect from predators while they find bugs and dirt baths there) - mine free range and honestly my overgrown forsythia bushes saved their lives many times from hawk attacks. It was their favorite place to hang out.

I put a plastic pail for me to sit on in the chicken run and forgot to remove it. The girls have been pecking at it and making a hollow sound.

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I know this is old but onions in small amounts, cooked or raw, are not bad for chickens. Neither is cheese or avocado. The skins and pits are of course, but not the flesh. As for cheese, chickens love sour/cultured dairy and it's good for their digestive system.

She hates how much she loves her chickens 🤣🤣🤣

idea fill a bucket with dirt and worms and your chickens can dig/forj in it

Chickens deserve to thrive, Thank you.❤

I'm having fun watching the chickens hang out tree stumps with old branches sticking out. I see them having fun playing on the different sized stumps.

I’ve put greens and suet balls etc in wiffel balls. They freak out. There’s always the brave one will tool it and run with it all day. Lol

Clothes on chickens is just as kooky as putting clothes on dogs and cats:-)

I have 2 acres fenced in.. they have no problem keeping occupied... my biggest problem is keeping them away from the crows feed...

Two houses up the street there's a ton of bamboo, which I use to create roosting bars in the run. Cut the bamboo; place one end through the hardware cloth or wire on one side of the run and the other end through the same on another side of the run. Attach with zipties. Also you can hang things from roosting bars. For instance a cabbage tether ball or a swing. I've taken an old branch that's roughly 1 1/2" in diameter. Drilled a hole on each end. Using twine hang it from a roosting bar. Now you have a swing. Hang a cabbage tether ball near the swing at a height that the chicken has to be on the swing to access the cabbage!

I thank you for so greatly caring about your hens; I doubt that most would even consider many of these things, nonetheless actually carry out the ideas.

I'm a new chicken and duck Mama. Thank you for all of your tips, tricks and instruction. ❤️🐔🐥🦆

It’s true! They pick on the each other. In the process of correcting their environment. Thanks for the great ideas.

Thanks for this, my chickens have turned into bullies so hopefully this will help.