I’d love to ration, but I can’t. I have to free feed. I have a mixed flock and the banties have to wait for their food until the big girls are done. I give them little baby piles of food to snack on, but the big girls get those too. After about a half hour the big girls get far enough to the other side of the property for the banties to eat happily for the rest of the day. The banties are more homebodies and like to stay near the run. I could play around with different levels of feeders, etc, but I’m not sure it’d be worth it.