I found that it did ok as long as the coop temp got up to 20*. My goal is to have them finish it off before it's been around for more than 2 hours. I feed in the AM, and depending on what crops look like, give some in the PM, or use scratch then... often just to get them all to the run so I can get them shut in the run before the big bad predators come out. My flock stampedes the feed bowl, the bucket, the spoon. I often fling some with the spoon to give me enough space to get it into the bowl.