Wow! I never thought about a treat chute. Great idea! I've played music for cows but never thought about doing it for chickens. I really think you should start a thread regarding your chicken adventure. Your a great writer & have an interesting story
@Bobby Basham ...
I don't think my story is worthy of any thread, but I'll share something else with you.
I don't mean to hijack this thread, just wanted to give you some entertainment at my expense.
Well, I can't figure out the pecking order in my gang of twelve...because they're all crazy. Everybody takes turns pecking and jumping on each other like they're having a cock fight then settle down chirping peacefully while they're scratching around.
The icing on the cake today was that I walked into the bathroom and everyone had escaped because my hardware cloth sagged and the box bowed out. They were just hanging out on top of the box, the counter and the floor just having a Pooping Convention.
I was out in the garage for at least seven hours, working like a snail, finishing up to give them this from three sheets of plywood that I mostly assembled a few weeks ago...
Now comes the fun part...You all know I don't like flapping things with a
BEAK, so I had to muster up the courage to go in there and round them up. Grabbed a milk crate and two old bath mats, one for cushion/protection in case they poop in transit, and the other for cover to keep them calm.
It sounded like a fox had raided the hen house with all the squawking, flapping and that horrible noise they make once you grabbed them. It was hard trying to hold one under the mat while trying to grab a couple more, slipping on poop at the same time, so this endeavor took several trips and a few lost feathers and was glad when it was over.
Oh, there's more....
I envy you folks that have Delawares because their feathering is nice and they have calm and inquisitive dispositions. They were sold out, so I tried to find the other breeds that look similar because I believe in Affirmative Action and wanted an assortment of colors in my flock...LOL.
Anyhoo, I settled for that new cross breed of
RAPTOR called the Austra-White. They are very skinny with long legs and very brave.
They are very sensitive to movement, and one goes after my fork (always carry a weapon) with a vengeance while I'm scraping the bedding out of the waterer and feeder. So, I end up in a French fencing match with it and keep shooing it away, but it comes right back. At least it doesn't go for my hand. Then, the mean RIR wants to get in on the action, but I think it wants a piece of me and not the fork because it bit (not peck) me before. Now we are in a three-way and I have to stab both of them and shoo them over to the other side of the brooder.
Sheesh, what did I get myself into?
