I bought the girls some corn on the cob today but when I put it inside their gate they wouldn’t go near it. They always take time to get used to anything new so I put it on a skewer with a hook one end and hung it over their ladder. The girls now associate the ladder with food, I also hung some cabbage next to it to give them a little more encouragement.
Corn cob and cabbage hanging at the top of the ladder
Dotty is pecking at the cabbage but they haven’t worked out yet that they can eat the corn.
Bluebell is pecking at the corn cob
When I went back a bit later the cob was stripped on one side so they must have got the hang of it. I turned it round for them.
Dotty and Bluebell pecking at the corn cob
Pepper was in the nest box laying her egg so I hope she had managed to get some corn before these two girls stripped it.
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What a great picture of them up the ladder eating the corn.
I think that Bluebell has such a quizzical look. The corn cob was another suggestion from Ace.