Chicks need food at night?

[Ccort]

Do chicks need access to food during the night? Mine are in the coop from about 9pm to 7am and they are 10 weeks old. I keep water in the coop, just in case.

 

[U_Stormcrow]

NO. Chickens don't get up for midnight snacks. or second dinner. Or elevensies. Or any other Hobbit-like behaviors. Once they settle down to roost, its lights out.

...and when they wake up in the AM (based, seemingly, on light levels) they will manage till 7am when you let them out.

 

[Ccort]

NO. Chickens don't get up for midnight snacks. or second dinner. Or elevensies. Or any other Hobbit-like behaviors. Once they settle down to roost, its lights out.

...and when they wake up in the AM (based, seemingly, on light levels) they will manage till 7am when you let them out.

Do you mean to say my late-night munchies make me a hobbit?!

 

[U_Stormcrow]

Do you mean to say my late-night munchies make me a hobbit?!

as I'm thinking about second dinner, while pondering the hair on the tops of my feet. Maybe?

 

[cluckmecoop7]

Thanks for the laugh I needed it

 

[raingarden]

There's no way I'm getting up at 7 a.m. just to feed the chickens. The feed bowl is topped off at 7 p.m. and again about 9:30 a.m.

 

[U_Stormcrow]

I don't know what time of the morning I go out to check on mine, except to know that its AFTER my second cup of coffee.

 

[Shadrach]

NO. Chickens don't get up for midnight snacks. or second dinner. Or elevensies. Or any other Hobbit-like behaviors. Once they settle down to roost, its lights out.

...and when they wake up in the AM (based, seemingly, on light levels) they will manage till 7am when you let them out.

@BY Bob has a compulsive night time snacking hen. An exception I'll grant you but apparently some do fancy a midnight snack.

 

[BY Bob]

@BY Bob has a compulsive night time snacking hen. An exception I'll grant you but apparently some do fancy a midnight snack.

Yes I do. Hattie gets up most nights in the winter and eats about 4 hours after roosting.

 

[U_Stormcrow]

Yes I do. Hattie gets up most nights in the winter and eats about 4 hours after roosting.

How strange. Evolutionary advantage over those missing out on the conflict-free hunt for food?