If you want a good laugh.......

[Snadger]

Try hanging a corn on the cob up in the chicken run!

I picked a few of my corn cobs today to see if they were ripe. They were, and after eating some raw, yum, I couldn't eat it all so decided I would hang it from the string I usually hang cabbages up on in the chicken run!

I've never laughed so much in ages, the corn was swinging like a pendulum and the chooks were trying to peck it on the move! Two of them banged there heads together at one point and nearly knocked each other out

I'm deffo going to do it again.......but this time I'll have a camera ready!

[Two_Sheds]

Oh please, please ... set up a webcam.
I'm begging you ...

[shirlthegirl43]

That is just soooo why I want to keep hens again That an spaghetti in their mash on a winter morning!

[Two_Sheds]

My guinea pigs fight over corn on the cob too.
You can put 2 cobs in the pen, but they'll fight over the "special one"

[lynda66]

my dog loves it too, so does one of the cats it's really funny watching them drag it round the house, what is it about corn cobs??

[MaureenHall]

I'd love to have seen that Must buy some next time I'm at the supermarket and try my lot on it - I'll try and video it as well if I can work out how to video on my mobile that is!!

[Noodle]

OK, so my hens are strange! I hung up one of my dads home grown organic corn cobs and they have totally ignored it!

[lainey lou]

mine go wild for corn on the cob too, it's hillarious!

[Snadger]

OK, so my hens are strange! I hung up one of my dads home grown organic corn cobs and they have totally ignored it!

OK, daft question time! You did strip the outer leaves off so they new what it was didn't you?

[Twinkle]

I chucked one in for our girls and they stripped it bare, like a shoal of piranhas in seconds

[Noodle]

I hung one up that I stripped totally, the other one I left on the ground with it partially stripped back and they ignored both of them!

[MaureenHall]

Went to Asda this morning and got some 20p c-o-c's. Yes, I stripped back the outer leaves off first then hung it up for the chickens. They looked at it, then at me, then looked at the corn again, clucked a bit, then Violet said "cluck-chook-bok-bok-cluck-chook" which I took to mean "what the b****y heck do you think we're supposed to do with that then?". So another cob was stripped of it's leaves and chucked into the run. After a bit of a conflab, one of them had a peck, then another, and before too long they were all at it like they'd never seen food before! They've decided between themselves that the one hanging up is "ok" but only if it stays still long enough to get a peck at. Any others they get will definitely be hung up for them - it lasts longer that way

[HayleyB]

Snadger, soooooooo cruuuuel

Please please post a piccy of a headbanging chook

[Sue]

Core an apple, then hang it up on a string, same corn on the cob effect!
Sue

[Nicos]

then Violet said "cluck-chook-bok-bok-cluck-chook"

I know the feeling Maureen- My OH has that look in his eyes sometimes when I present him with his supper!!!