Chickens will only use feeder as last resort.

[thecatumbrella]

For anyone interested (or not, sorry about that), here's our setup. Pellets get scattered around the entire run at least once a day. You'll also notice they're dust bathing next to their water cups (WHY?!) while ignoring the designated dust bath box we created in front of Rejected Feeder...

 

[dearmeghann]

It is so long as they eat all the pieces. Make sure they're clearing their chicknics and not leaving anything behind.

I really want a chicknic table (they're so cute!), but I think I'll go mad if I have to clean poo off one more thing...

Our ability to just get used to chicken poo is hilarious.

My partner loves to overfeed all of our animals. I feel like a monster trying to limit their scratch. The number of times I say, "10%!" during the week is hilarious. They didn't clean their plates. But I also think they were overserved lol!!

We're doing the FlockMaker and finishing up our Henhouse. We also have the Chickhouse. Since we have cockerels, I think we'll switch permanently to Chickhouse with oyster shells on the side. I've seen folks still give their roosters Henhouse and say that they pick around the calcium (pellets?).

Also, how funny are chickens? My HATE pellets. They love their crumble so much. We accidentally got a bag of pellet feed and have been mixing it in. They wait until it gets broken up to eat. Or if I put it on their mixed veggies/fruit ice block (probably bc it turns to a mash).