[bashful_badger]

Any ideas what I can put in my run to help keep chooks entertained?

We have a branch just chopped off a beech tree because it was overhanging greenhouse and tree was very lopsided, so they can jump on that.

Are plants any good or will they just decimate them?

[matilda duck]

Large plantpots are good fun as they can hide in them or sit on them!

[bashful_badger]

Large plantpots are good fun as they can hide in them or sit on them!

Excellent found 3 among the rubble clearing allotment yesterday!  Big terracotta ones :o)

[chickenlady]

as the side of my run is a 6ft fence my girls have a 2 mtr long shelf that we fixed to the fence posts, the shelf goes behind a choisia (sp) bush and they love sitting on the shelf behind the bush  they also have 2 HUGE laural trees in their run which has large branches attached for them to perch on, and this weekend hubby chopped down some self sown elm trees growing in our hedge (they had got to well over the height of the house  ) so the girls now have 2 huge logs to clamber over and sit on too!
would take a piccie but i dropped our camera yesterday! it was one with one of those lenses that goes in and out! the lens was out and you can guess what side up the camera landed 

Debbie

[dizzylizzie]

we have things like tyres, logs, ramps, buckets, plantpots,sandpit/dustbath, footballs, a small budgie mirror(they love that!), leaves pegged up just out of reach, to make them jump! not that they are in there much mind...they much preferre the garden and the pumpkin plants
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[tode]

Lizzie: is the netting in 3rd pic what you call weldmesh ? or something different?
Thanks

[dizzylizzie]

hi tode, yes it is . we bought it from a site that grannie recommed.. its called Hills of Devon, cheap prices, great srvice and free delivery we used 1x1 1/2 weldmesh that was 1.6mls thick....nightmare to use/cut/staple but dead safe for the girls once its done

[tode]

Thanks, our run is in ordinary chicken netting.
Looks a lot stronger than that.

[bashful_badger]

Tode, I think some other countries call weldmesh "hardware cloth" if that is any good?  At least that is what I was told when I tried to buy some for something else :o)

[joyfull]

yes it is also called that which I thought was really strange 

[tode]

Thanks: found something similar "Netlon", 1 mm wire, sold in 1m x 3m panels, rolled up.
But seems V. expensive: £20 per panel !

[joyfull]

See if you can buy welded wire mesh on the roll, buying it in panels is very very expensive.

[Foxy]

lovely piccies Dizzylizzie, love the stuffed dog!

[dizzylizzie]

thats a toy i forgot to mention....the girls love the 'stuffed dog' he he he

[dizzylizzie]

Thanks: found something similar "Netlon", 1 mm wire, sold in 1m x 3m panels, rolled up.
But seems V. expensive: £20 per panel !

wow , thats very expensive