Just seem to get weirder and weirder

[cuwiar]

Ok, so their latest thing is eating clay!!?? Clay soil. They seem to love the really orange clay and act as though they have found a local delicacy!

 

[mollteaser]

Mine eat a lot of the very dark soil in one corner of their pen, judging by the poops I've been picking up. I used to worry, but I've stopped...I'm sure they wouldn't eat it if it was that bad....she says....

 

[chrismahon]

Chickens do some daft things every so often. Big Softy Arnold and his 3 girls are on an area of sooty soil and their poos are jet black. So why are they eating soil ? A friend decided to provide a soil bath for his hens using kiln dried sand -they ate it ! Came back in the evening to find all 4 with crops dragging on the floor and a half empty bath. Yes they do get grit. Then there is the foam rubber strips ours ate off the polytunnel. Recently Rosie made some hurdles from Willow to act as wind breaks. Frankie and his girls have been peeling the bark off and eating that.

 

[mollteaser]

My blue haze is an amazing digger, and seems to be digging huge holes for some well buried grubs...

 

[cuwiar]

Phew, good! Relieved to hear it's not so uncommon! Will let you know if they start laying pottery eggs!!

 

[BabyBantam]

On a slightly different tack, is Moss poisonous? My lot seem to spend hours scratching it out of the lawn and eating it. Was thinking ablout renting them out as the 'organic' alternative to Moss Killer. With the pottery eggs, we could be onto a new buiness idea

 

[Marigold]

I wpould thiunk it's OK so long as it's not been treated with moss killer, but very NOT-OK if it has.

 

[chrismahon]

Well if it was ours would have died years ago BB. First thing they do when moved onto new lawn area is dig out the moss and eat it. We don't need moss killer as a result. Just move them again. The TNN's were fastest- two days and it had all been eaten.