Chickens “Disappear” Chunks Of Styrofoam

Chickens “Disappear” Chunks Of Styrofoam LIVESTOCK Miscellaneous “We dispose of Styrofoam by letting our chickens peck chunks of it apart They love going at it and afterward there is no sign of it in the manure or eggs It just totally disappears ” says Allen Bjergo Corvallis Mont “The benefit of the idea is that it keeps them from pecking each other the same way pigs will stop tail-biting if you put a bowling ball in their pens And it also lets us dispose of a nuisance product “All we see on the ground afterwards is an occasional speck It must go through the gizzard and get chewed up Even tiny beads don’t show up in the manure They just get worked into the ground “In the past 30 years we have unpacked enough Styrofoam from appliances and other stuff to fill a garage When we throw a piece out the chickens come running and attack it like a flock of eagles on a dead fish Interestingly enough they totally ignore the soft foam ‘clamshells’ you get takeout food in from restaurants ” Contact: FARM SHOW Followup Allen Bjergo 829 Weber Butte Trail Corvallis Mont 59828 ph 406 961-4538; allen bjergo@cybernet1 com

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