revmarcie
Chirping
- Feb 12, 2016
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I have a sparrow problem. my girls free range during the day but their coop is open with feeding buckets and water all day. I have a small doorway for my girls to enter and exit. so do the sparrows no matter what I try I cannot keep them out. I am now keeping the girls locked in the coop and closed run for 2 hours in the morning and 2 hours in the afternoon when I give them open bowls of feed too. They are feather pickers since we got them and I cannot break the habit (tried every thing there too). When one tucks her head into one of the 3 feed buckets somebody else takes advantage and bites her butt and tail feathers. They all look like they have bee attacked by weed walkers on the tail ends. We got them last Oct at between 9 to 11 weeks old with already established picking habits. Anyway question is, will my 2 hour am and pm bowl feeding schedule be enough. tHey still have the buckets available all day but I don't really know if anybody tigers a chance to use them,