Not feeding chickens

[jvls1942]

moving out will not rectify the situation with her chickens..
If they are free ranging, scatter the feed on the ground well away from the coop. that way she will think they are free ranging and never catch on..
You cannot go on isolating her chickens while yours eat.
also tell her that "real farmers" do post on here.. I raise hundreds of chickens per year and have raised thousands in the past 55 years that I have had chickens.
I have also raised milking goats, beef cattle and a few hogs..
My birds are freerangers.. but no real farmer denies his chickens / animals feed..
she might have been raised with chickens around, but as a child, she probably didn't take notice that somebody WAS feeding the chickens. If they didn't, I wonder just how far back in the woods was she raised ??
I think that she is naive, and possibly a cheap skate .. too cheap to buy feed for her chickens.

unless you are living rent free, I can't see why you don't move out..

.......jiminwisc......

 

[red horse ranch]

I feel like if @Sam Pritchard has been feeding and caring for the chicks all their life then she should give the 'friend' her money back and move out WITH ALL the chicks!

 

[Mraya]

Ok,what's the worst that could happen if she sees you feeding the chickens?
Would they kick you out?

 

[Sam Pritchard]

Ok,what's the worst that could happen if she sees you feeding the chickens?
Would they kick you out?

No.. she might just be annoyed but whatever. It'll cause way less of an issue than if I say something again...It's definitely the best option for now.

 

[Mraya]

No.. she might just be annoyed but whatever. It'll cause way less of an issue than if I say something again...It's definitely the best option for now.

That's wright " whatever" If she says something about it Just say to her "I don't want to her it" and just walk away.

 

[Sam Pritchard]

That's wright " whatever" If she says something about it Just say to her "I don't want to her it" and just walk away.

I also think it's a little bit of her being stubborn and stuck in what she thinks is the right.. and a little bit of her just being cheap and not wanting to spend the money.

So if I'm using my own money to feed her chickens- I don't think she will say much.

 

[bobbi-j]

Ahhh honestly I wouldn't call her a "friend" after all the events I've seen her do since moving in. I moved into a house with my boyfriend and his friends- our landlord lives with us too and the girl who is not feeding her chickens is my landlords girlfriend. Sooo, I can't do much without pissing her off and in turn pissing off my landlord.

I've been giving her chicks food here and there. I'd love to show her all your posts but I know it's infurriate her and she'd say it's garbage. She always tells me "real" farmers aren't posting online. I'm someone who is very open about learning and will always accept I am wrong, she is quite the opposite so we almost always bump heads.

I have thought about calling animal welfare due to her treatment of her cat as well.. but we don't have visitors or know people up here so I know she would know it was me and that would be a huge mess. I've just taken on the burden of secretly taking care of her animals. It sucks bc as a previous poster said- she won't learn she will think well they seem healthy (but that's because I'm taking care of them)

It's heartbreaking and I wish I could have a second conversation with her about it- but I've never seen her so stern towards me when ever I told her I thought she was being cruel.

I am a "real farmer". I live on a farm, drive tractor, the whole bit. DH and I raise chickens as livestock for eggs and meat. They free range all day every. They also have food available to them all day every day. Feed consumption does go way down in the summer, but they still eat some.

 

[Mraya]

So if I'm using my own money to feed her chickens- I don't think she will say much.

So if you are using your money to feed the chickens then I guess you also get the eggs.

 

[BarredRockMom]

There's no fixing stupid. I've said this before but I'll say it again: When the end of the world comes, I want a lawn chair and a front row seat for the cosmic smack down that's coming for jackasses like this wench and all of those who abuse animals, children & the elderly. I will cheer the loudest when the chicken abusers go front and center. These are the kinds of people that I wouldn't waste spit on if they were on fire, and some day, they're gonna be (may we all live long enough to see it!) Man was given dominion over the animals, but that means we protect and care for them (tho sometimes they're food), not dole out abuse, neglect and abandonment.

You just do what you need to do. Hopefully, she'll get whatever's coming to her sooner rather than later & the animals will be better off for it (and from the sound of things, so will you!) She can't out run Karma.

 

[GldnValleyHens]

If she won't listen to you saying they need food, maybe just mention that if they are fed a laying diet, she will get more eggs. Pullets raised in a run without feed obviously will not have enough calcium, or nutrition to produce eggs, so why would she have them? Try the giving feed=eggs approach.
Or, maybe kindly mention that since chickens on free-range farms do forage for most of their food, but are always fed a supplemented feed to keep up egg production.
I tried the whole chickens scavenge for their food last summer, mainly because a plague of crickets had taken over our fields like they do every summer, but even then they didn't seem to get enough to eat, and egg production slowed to a trickle. So now my flock gets free choice organic layer crumbles to stuff themselves, though they still spend most of their time foraging.