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Edible Christmas Garlands for your Chickens

Your chickens will love these festive edible Christmas garland treats!

Fun, creative, healthy treats can help beat the winter blahs and alleviate boredom in your run.

Besides being easy to make, edible garlands keep your chickens busy during the winter when they are confined to the coop or run without much to entertain them.

Last December, I spent an entire afternoon stringing popcorn, grapes, cranberries, raisins and walnuts into edible garlands for the chickens.  Never again. 

Now don't get me wrong. They absolutely LOVED the garlands and they looked so pretty - for all of four seconds before they demolished them.

But it took me FOREVER to make them, the popcorn kept breaking and the walnuts were hard to string.

 So this year I decided to go bigger and less labor-intensive. 

I upgraded to hard-boiled eggs, radishes, cranberries and Brussels sprouts.

The radishes were only $1.29 a bunch (I bought two), the cranberries were from the freezer, left over from Thanksgiving, and I had a whole basket of eggs that I needed to cook up anyway, so this ended up being a very economical treat.

My only concern was that the chickens had never tried either radishes or Brussels sprouts before, but surprisingly they happily munched on everything all afternoon, and nothing but a few half-eaten Brussels sprouts were left by dark.

Edible Christmas Garlands for your Chickens

What you Need |


Eggs
Radishes
Cranberries
Brussels Sprouts
Twine or cotton string
Embroidery needle
Drill with small drill bit
Pliers

What you Do |

It only took a few minutes to string three long garlands after I had the eggs cooked.  [Tip: steam your fresh eggs instead of boiling them and they will peel perfectly every time.] 

I used a sturdy cotton string and embroidery needle to string the garlands.

To make stringing the radishes and Brussels sprouts easier, I drilled a small hole through the center with a small drill bit and then used pliers to pull the needle all the way through.

Then I tied the ends to the run fencing and let the chickens have it their edible Christmas garlands!





The garlands were a big hit, as you can see!



(I made sure to remove the strings as soon as the chickens had finished eating the vegetables, just to be on the safe side.)








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