Messy food

[SunnyAlberta]

I adopted two pet quality Show Kings yesterday. They will live in a modified rabbit hutch with a large attached aviary. Last night I kept them cooped, up, however. I am hoping that they'll get comfortable in the hutch and know its their home. They dumped their food dish over last night. Is it ok to just leave them in there all day to settle in the hutch and to eat the spilled food like a chicken or quail would? I'm at work now and can't see how they are coping but I can have a family member refill their dish if that's the better way. There was a terrible thunder and lightening storm last night. I hope they're calm after a day of big changes.

 

[larrylofts]

you need to find a feeder that will not tip over if they sit on it if you can a feeder that fits on the outside of the cage where they can stick there heads threw it is good i have used coke bottle with the hole big enoungh for them to stick heads in it just wired it to the wire inside

 

[Hokum Coco]

Try something like this on a pigeon scale:

 

[SunnyAlberta]

Thanks for your ideas about what type of feeder I should use. In the meantime I wonder if King pigeons will eat spilled feed.

 

[Hokum Coco]

I find it amazing how frugal birds get if the main feeder is absent for maybe 4 hours.