EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

[daxigait]

I'm being careful, alright; takes me longer to bundle up than it does to do what I go out there to do, and it's <100' from the house. Fortunately, I don't have to fill feeders every day (a tube feeder in one pen that lasts 3-4 days & a hanging feeder in the other pen that lasts even longer).

I have read about a lot of different feeder on this site. Which one do you use? I have trouble with mice so I don't put out a ton of food, but I would love not to have to fill my feeder every day.

 

[mlm Mike]

Time to get to work, have a great day everyone!

 

[daxigait]

@kwhites634 I think it is time for you to run a power line out to your coop for the waterer.

 

[daxigait]

Time to get to work, have a great day everyone!

Have a great day Mike!

 

[BullChick]

Tomorrow is Mike’s birthday!

 

[kwhites634]

I have read about a lot of different feeder on this site. Which one do you use? I have trouble with mice so I don't put out a ton of food, but I would love not to have to fill my feeder every day.

The hanging feeder is high enough that the mice can't get to it. The other feeder is an adaptation of one that I found one the "Show us your feeders" thread a couple years ago. It's simply a length of 4" PVC with a rubber cap on the top to keep the weather out, a "Y" fitting on the bottom, with a plug on the bottom so the feed doesn't run out, and a PVC cap over the "feed port" side of the "Y" that I remove every morning so the birds can eat, and install every night when I close up to keep the rats from stealing feed.

 

[kwhites634]

@kwhites634 I think it is time for you to run a power line out to your coop for the waterer.

Never had a need for one, other than convenience. I use rubber dog bowls that I don't fill all the way. If I can't break the ice, or it freezes all the way, I'll pour more water on top of the ice a couple times a day, then bring them in at night to thaw in front of the stove.

 

[kwhites634]

Tomorrow is Mike’s birthday!
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You must be feeling better. Glad to see it.

 

[daxigait]

Never had a need for one, other than convenience. I use rubber dog bowls that I don't fill all the way. If I can't break the ice, or it freezes all the way, I'll pour more water on top of the ice a couple times a day, then bring them in at night to thaw in front of the stove.

Remember you saying that, but you have to be home I guess to do that, and it's cold to do that a lot.

 

[daxigait]

The hanging feeder is high enough that the mice can't get to it. The other feeder is an adaptation of one that I found one the "Show us your feeders" thread a couple years ago. It's simply a length of 4" PVC with a rubber cap on the top to keep the weather out, a "Y" fitting on the bottom, with a plug on the bottom so the feed doesn't run out, and a PVC cap over the "feed port" side of the "Y" that I remove every morning so the birds can eat, and install every night when I close up to keep the rats from stealing feed.
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I may try that. I tried that big hanging feeders, but I have watched the mice call right down the chain and get in the food it's gross