Keep it inside if it will make it lastI would but it gets super hot outside and that'll make it go bad faster and when I feed them I fill up the feeder and I leave it there until it's empty and I fill it up again and i don't put too much bc whenever I do it always rains but i don't have to fill it for like 3 days but now i have to make their food until i can go to tsc which idk when but ill ask