Food/Water in the Coop? What Do You Do?

[wamtazlady]

There is the difference. I don't close my pop door so the birds can go out into the run whenever they wake up to eat and drink. Since the whole coop and run are surrounded with electric poultry netting I have stopped locking the girls up in the coop at night. So for me having the food and water outside works. It would not work so well for those who don't have the netting to keep the bad predators away.

 

[chickensfinally]

There is the difference. I don't close my pop door so the birds can go out into the run whenever they wake up to eat and drink. Since the whole coop and run are surrounded with electric poultry netting I have stopped locking the girls up in the coop at night. So for me having the food and water outside works. It would not work so well for those who don't have the netting to keep the bad predators away.

Yes, my coop is new and I only have a chicken corral, not a predator proof run, so my girls get locked up at night in the coop. Once we get the run done, I plan on Ft. Knox!, we plan to leave pop door open and will cease food and water in coop.