How to raise Backyard Chickens: Re: [CHICKENS-101] Chick Playground

What a great idea! I will steal those ideas!!!

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On Mar 24, 2013, at 1:30 PM, DBauer7998@aol.com wrote:

I have 9 chicks at my office - 5 three weeks old and 4 two weeks old. They are in the largest Rubbermaid bin I could find at Walmart; I think it holds 132 gallons or something like that. The chicks are thriving and ever busy; I've had to put the wire lid I made onto the tub to keep them from flying out.

I've always believed that animals can, indeed, get bored, so I took 2 cans - one small tuna can and one large can that held peaches - and a squat black plastic flower pot with an opening cut in the side (sort of like a tiny weenie nesting box), and put them in with the chicks this morning to see what the chicks would make of them. (They were placed well away from the heat lamp so that no little chickie tootsies would get burned.)

You'd think I'd taken them to Disneyland. They love their little playground and spend time zipping in and out of the flower pot, perching on top of the cans (and trying to push their siblings off the tops of the cans), and pecking at the cans trying to figure out what that shiny reflection really is.

If there are chick sounds for "Yahoo!" and "Yipee!" that's what they were peeping.

Tomorrow I'm going to take in a mirror designed for a birdcage and drive them nuts.

My chicks may end up crazy, but they'll be happy.

Di
Central Florida Zone 9a/b

Di
Central Florida Zone 9a/b