over feeding

Two gallons in two days for three chickens. Nope, their crop is not that big, they can't physically eat that much a day. Three possibilities come to mind, it may be a combination.

Tops on the list is what Mary said, visitors. Probably something big. Mice and rats aren't that big either, they can't physically hold that much so it would take a lot of them. They poop all the time too so you'd see a lot of their poop, small black pellets. It doesn't have to be a groundhog or wild animal. Goats are my first thought but sheep, cattle, or horses are possible. Maybe a flock of wild birds? And Mary, groundhogs aren't always easy. Congrats on getting that one.

This one is unlikely the sole cause, but may contribute. Waste. Unless you have one really weird feeding set-up you should see a big pile of feed if they are scraping it out. What does your feeding set-up look like?

The last is a human. It doesn't have to be a thief, it could be someone playing a practical joke. Humans usually leave no clues.
Their feed is kept is a red gallon bucket. No other animals or people. The girls just started laying. Funny thing is they haven’t eaten that much again. I usually only have to fill it once a day or every other day. These three are killing me 🙈. My white one keeps escaping the run and I’d let them free reign if my neighbor could control her dogs. Two of my girls were attacked last fall when they escaped.ive heightened my fence to 6 feet and my Houdini still flies out.
 
Funny thing is they haven’t eaten that much again. I usually only have to fill it once a day or every other day.

If it just happened once and then quit, you may not have to do anything about it.

Is your run covered? Maybe some migrating birds came through, ate a lot of feed, and then flew away on their journey north?
 
My super-layer, a Black Star sex link, is food-mad. She acts like she's starving all the time and gobbles food down like crazy. She is always looking for the better thing. If I throw scratch as a treat, she'll peck a bit and the minute I move she'll look to me to see if I might put out mealworms, or have grapes in my pockets, before going back to eating. She will also eat the widest variety of "treats" -- she'll gobble down rice, noodles, oatmeal, cauliflower, broccoli, etc. that the other hens mostly turn their beaks up at. But I wouldn't say she overeats -- her hunger makes sense as she lays an egg almost every day and obviously needs a lot of calories to do so!
 

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