Holes through plywood or cardboard to feed chicks avoid spillage of expensive food???

[donandmelissa]

I seen someone from byc do this for older chickens but would this work for chicks? We use soy & corn free feed from scratch & peck feed. They dump so much!

 

[Percheron chick]

The usual solution is to change feeder, raise it to where it's level with their back and or put a pie plate under the feeder to catch what is dropped.

 

[donandmelissa]

yeah, they are determined chicks. Those ideas haven't worked for us yet. They poop in the plate or if I raise the food they poop on whatever I used to raise it. Then continue to spill

 

[Percheron chick]

Wet it and feed it as a mash. They can't bill it out as easily. Thinking out loud, are they wasting it because they don't like it?