Hanging Cabbage?

[mylilchix]

I know this is probably a dump question, BUT how do you hang a cabbage for chickens? I want to hang one off of the roof of our coop, but I'm not sure how.

Thanks for you help,
Sonja

 

[Tn Gamebirds]

You have to build a gallows and either put a trap door in it or push the cabbage off of it

Just kidding maybe someone else will answer

 

[chickenannie]

string?

I just did a search for "cabbage AND hang" and came up with a bunch of answers, including this thread:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=128371

 

[mylilchix]

That's what I was thinking, but I want to make sure the girls won't knock it to the ground after the first day.

Sonja

 

[Buck Creek Chickens]

lettuce works better, I hand greens ( carrot, beet, spinish), your eggs can have an off flaver with cabbage

 

[sillybirds]

I just tied a piece of string to a large screw and just screwed it into the stem end of the head of cabbage. Worked fine for me.

 

[MassBackyarder]

Ditto. Got a 1/4 "J" screw and screwed it into the core (bottom) of the cabbage and ran twine up to another "J" screw in the ceiling of the coop.

No bad egg smells for me.

 

[Tad]

my neighbor has a field of cabbage and I traded him a couple palms for grazing rights, I get 2 heads a day, never have hung it though, I just chop it coarse and toss it in the run, the gobble it up like crazy!! they have not started laying yet, need another 2 weeeks or so till I anticipate eggs, 1 dominque rooster and 14 sussex hens, will polish 2 large heads of cabbage off in a day.

 

[Opa]

I feed cabbage all the time and to hang it I push a stiff wire all the way through the core and then make a small bend in the end of it. I then hang it inside the coop about 12" off the floor. 19 hens can eat a large head in about 3 hours. They sure like it. Gives then a good source of green roughage in winter.

 

[cmom]

I take a screwdriver and put a hole through the core and the put a string through the head and hang it.