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Ok—it’s been a little over three weeks since my last post, and I’m just here to give an update. I continued to give my chickens free choice of greens and pelleted feed. (I was clearing my winter garden so there was a glut of greens!) The amount of pellets they ate during those three weeks was...

My bird-brains.

Ok—so I took out the remaining feeder last night and left an empty terracotta dish out. Next morning I headed out to them with a small bowlful of pellets and poured it in the dish. They all congregated around and began devouring the pellets. By early afternoon, the pellets were gone and I...

Same style.

Yes I heard about that too. Though it seems like those birds kept eating the food, but weren’t laying any eggs. The inverse of my situation. I checked again this afternoon (didn’t feed them greens) and only a teeny bit of food had been eaten. We’ll see what tomorrow brings.

They’re secured

It smells and looks normal—is there some other way to tell if it is stale? How old is too old?

Good idea—I’ll give it a shot!

Hey everyone--I'm puzzled as to what is going on with my chickens. I went out of town for a few days, and when I came back I noticed that my chickens ate a lot less food than I had expected. (Laid plenty of eggs though.) One of their two feeders was halfway empty and the other was almost...