I have 2 gallon buckets and 2 quart rubber black bowls. She comes over when I bring the bucket of fermented feed. She gets in-between 2 friends and that helps guide her. Takes a couple tries to get to depth of food. She pecks short.
She makes it over to the waterer on her own.
I have one that's having vision issues. She isn't totally blind. Depth perception is way off. She sees the others eating and figures it out. But if I bring the food to just her, she misses the food by a hand span. She has a full crop at night so I guess she's doing okay. One eye is squinty and...
Especially if trying not to use pesticides.
Used to be 80% of people were involved in food production before industrial revolution. Now it's the other way around . Takes a lot of labor to weed. When I was a kid I helped weed a bean field and it was hard hot and dusty work.
Mine are the same. One hen changed coops last year because of this. This spring a cockerel in her new coop wouldn't leave her alone. And she went back to her old coop, but he was still after her. So I invited him to dinner. Now a hen won't let her in the coop at roost time. She gets on top of...
That is worrying.
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