A good rooster will block the door of the coop and fight anything that dares to pass. It’s amazing how selfless a good rooster is. Calls hens to food but won’t eat it, fights animals. It’s crazy.
I bought extra bags of food last time I was at the store just for this reason. It’s like gasoline, it WILL get used lol. If things got tight I would start supplementing with things I could gather. Table scraps, lawn clippings, clover, dent corn. If I were to grow food I would grow field corn...
Once the sensor goes "truly" bad, I don't think you can fix it. You can try cleaning it, but you risk damaging it if it isn't already damaged. There may be a way to order a new one if you could find the part. It looks like a really cheap humidity sensor. What I did is just bypass the sensor...
