We have only guineas now but plan to get chickens this spring. I leave water and a self feeder in there coop at all times, 24 hours a day. My guineas free range for most if not all day, every day. Even with having feed available "24" and treats given to them they would still visit the...
I keep 10lbs gravity feed full and a gallon waterer with fresh water in their coop at all times. I have done this since they were keets. I give them there treats at the front ramp to their coop. the only other thing I could possibly add to the coop is cable TV.
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I was hoping that as this is totally new behavior. They have the life here, food, water, and TREATS. Millet, meal worm, water melon and greens. Sometimes I think that I am their pet. LOL. Hopefully in a short time they will see that the grass is not greener on the neighbor’s...
Only for the last four or five days have my 5 six month olds been venturing through the fields to my neighbors house about 1200 feet away. I have called them back the times I hear them over there and they run back to me and follow me to the coop. They are locked up every night in there coop at...
We are low impact, 5. ( I don’t know how 5 can poop so much, you would think I had 20) I use it on lawn areas where I walk alot. Other areas I can hose but by wetting the area down all the time the lawn was thinning out from walking on the wet and mushy soil. I hit a path to the basement slider...
On some days the "Heard" seem to laden one area of my lawn with their droppings around where we walk alot. I use to get the hose and blast them till they disintegrate. Then I had a thought and went with it, I bought a small 26 inch wide push lawn sweeper to do a quick pickup of the area. It...
Mine started on crumbles and now I have started to mix pellets in with their food very slowly. They resisted at first but now they seem to know that they can eat it. I did it for the same reasons you want to. ALOT of wasted crumbles. I found that if you keep the feeder hung high enough so they...