X3... when folks report being eaten out of house and home out ou'd generally food waste, or nutritionally insufficient feed, rather than over consumption. A good place to start is evaluation of the feeder in use.
OK - I need suggestions in this department. My chickens do fine with their food - not wasting any particular great amount, not seeming to eat excessively. But my guinea fowl!! Those little stinkers spill and dig and scatter their food all over the place, then walk on it and poop on it so that it's not even usable as ground-scattered forage. I have hung their feeder so that it's just BARELY reachable, and this helps some, but not enough. I think a completely different style of feeder is needed, but I don't have a lot of $$ to spend.
Oh - I thought I was supposed to throw the feed away if it gets wet because it will harbor bacteria or get sour?
Right! I had been just putting a little bit of food in the feeder because first of all, the guineas kick it out all over the place, and secondly, it's been raining several times a week the past couple weeks. But I've still been dumping a lot, because it seems like the weather waits until I have just changed the food, and then it rains again. I am glad to hear that it's not necessarily mandatory to dump the food every time it gets wet!
