I'm going out on a limb here by saying chickens are like a bunch of two year olds. Leave them alone with nothing to do and they are bound to get bored and they maybe into some trouble. I had made a chicken swing out of some rope and a stick but they were on it so much that it kept falling apart. Mark has promised he would buy the girls a real chicken swing...still waiting on it to come... I have given the all kinds of treats that they have to work at to eat. Things like hanging cabbage, watermelon halves, and lettuce leaves in a suet feeder. But today with the help of the yahoos (Pappy can never tell them no) we bought two chicken treat holders.
I had visions of then chasing these treat balls all over the yard. Instead they just pecked at them for a little while and then they were on to bigger and better things. I put the treat balls in their runs tonight when they went to roost. I'll check on them in the morning to see it they finally figured them out.
