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[Boybeck]

Interesting line in a Pets at Home chicken leaflet.

 

"Suspending treats from a chain can make them more of a challenge but avoid making the chickens jump as this interferes with egg production."

 

What do you reckon? I'd never even given this a second thought. I have a cabbage suspended about two inches above their heads; they seem quite happy to jump up and egg production is fine.

[Patricia W]

I guess at the bottom of it, is the thought that if the egg inside the hen is broken before it is laid, it can result in peritonitis - I think. I seem to remember a post about hens being spooked by hot air ballons or low flying aircraft and being afflicted in this way.

 

Or did I dream all this??

[Saronne]

I know I'm not a chicken...but...

It reminds me of when I was expecting my first child and my mother-in-law told me not to raise my arms over my head (I was hanging out the washing) because the umbelical cord would get wrapped around the baby's neck!

[Boybeck]

Blimey, I'd not heard that. Although I reckon half these things that get passed down from mothers are made up hehehe