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Lettuce hanging dilemma

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Hi Sarah and welcome to the forum.

 

I just throw lettuce leaves in a bowl or on the grass, but my 4 don't like it really and often leave it, although lots of owners on this forum say their chooks go nuts for lettuce. With brocolli I hang it from the run bars with string, all other treats go in the bowl or on the grass as they love scratching for their food. Mine love mixed corn, cut up grapes (not too many), raisins, cooked rice (their favourite) & pasta, jacket potato skins, apple & melon pips. Goodness, the list is endless as you will soon find out.

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Homebase do a pack of 2 huge red hooks. A bit like enormous cup hooks. They are £3 for the pair. I simply screw them into the end of the lettuce/cabbage/broccoli and hang it on the side of the run. Works a treat. Strong enough to support the weight of a whole cabbage and bright enough to see in amongst the aubiose in the run :lol:

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is this basket a bit like a horses hay holder???

 

I buy those little gem lettuces for my chooks sometimes & pull off a few leaves for them, then chuck the rest in....the like to play beakball with it - that's chicken netball by the way! They adore lettuce & always eat their greens - hence the bright fabulous yolks in their eggies!

 

Emma.x

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We bought something like this from our local garden centre:

 

http://www.dietecuk.com/p172860/Suet-Cake-Feeder-Single-Height.html

 

We put lettuce and other goodies in it and then hang it up at the end of the run above the door. It's always empty when we come home from work :D

 

If we give them corn on the cob then we just tend to chuck a half one on the ground for them when they're free-ranging. Greta tends to grab it and run down the garden with it though - with Audrey in hot pursuit! She soon drops it though and they both delight in removing every last morsel of corn from it.

 

Rob

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Those suet block feeders are perfect - I have a few of them in the run & put any peckable treats in their for them.Its great for leafy things like spinach & carrot tops :P

 

I am supposed to bring out an empty one each time I take down a full one, so I can fill it in the kitchen, but always forget & have to fill it in the run which means I get pecked fingers :lol:

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We have tried repeatedly to get ours to eat greens but to no avail.

We chopped a variety of veg' up and mixed it with rice, bread, potatoes, porridge etc. They eat all the mash and leave every s"Ooops, word censored!" of greenery. :?

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Lettuce, most green growing vegetation, peas (cooked), rice (boiled) but no grapes and they aren't keen on tomatoes. They like the seeds from sweet paper and will eat the flesh as a last resort but the absolute favourite is sweet corn. They will do almost anything for a hand full of sweet corn!!!!

 

Helen in Hume

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