Chicken toy

home-made chicken toy

Chickens and chicken toy

To give the chickens something to play with and some sort of mental stimulus, I decided to make them a toy. I’d seen one on Amazon and thought it shouldn’t be that hard to copy. I got an old plastic bottle and punched about 10 square holes with the tip of a sharp knife. Obviously it is important not to make them too big. I then filled it with wheat and waited to see what they made of it.

It didn’t take them long to figure out what to do and the next day they were managing to roll it with their feet.

 

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Day for celebration: the first egg

First egg laid by the new hens

First egg laid by one of the new hens

On 28th October 2013, 5 months and 1 day after the chicks hatched, one of the young hens laid her first egg.

She laid her second one two days later.