Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[MrsNorthie]

Actually one of the reasons I got this one is that it isn’t a guillotine style (which many treadle feeders are). That worried me too.
In this one, if a chicken were to fall off the treadle the door would push its head out of the feeder.
It is constructed a bit like a cat flap if that makes sense.
The soft close add is actually to reduce the noise which some chickens and owners didn’t like when it closes.
They have used it with soft foods (for dogs) and I don’t see why you couldn’t use it for fermented feeds but it would need filling every day and might be a pain to clean. With dry food it stores the food and refills itself which obviously wouldn’t work with fermented feed.

Tax: you can see here the binder clip I used to stop it closing fully for the sake of the chicks. Of course that also means it is temporarily not rat proof.
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That is good to know! I swear, keeping chickens and turkeys is like having my first baby, I worry, stress about and research everything, losing sleep levels.LOL

 

[RoyalChick]

That is good to know! I swear, keeping chickens and turkeys is like having my first baby, I worry, stress about and research everything, losing sleep levels.LOL

Oh me too. And I am so sensitive to the guillotine thing I refuse to have an automatic door for them!

 

[BDutch]

Made it. In fact I've gone from not many steps to 8300 today.
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Glad to have you back!
Were you not exhausted after such a long walk?

 

[Perris]

errr.... after you... no, after you...

and they're off!

 

[ksbkeys]

We had one egg that had stopped developing, so here at day 15? 16? Delft has 5 eggs remaining. I will have to block off the box she's in and turn it into a maternity suite. View attachment 4220269

Beautiful color variety!

 

[Vulpes vulpes]

BYC is back!!

 

[BDutch]

Looking now at a documentary on Dutch TV.
Part of it is in English. About the change from killing male chicks to abortion before the day they can feel pain (German research) at day 13.

Kijk nu Focus • Eendagshaantjes https://tvblik.nl/focus/eendagshaantjes

Who can watch it?

At the end they show dubbel purpose chickens. For meat + eggs.

 

[Labsandchickens8]

That is good to know! I swear, keeping chickens and turkeys is like having my first baby, I worry, stress about and research everything, losing sleep levels.LOL

Me too. I'm ridiculous about it sometimes. But I'm responsible for them and have to do my best.

 

[Labsandchickens8]

Am I the only one worried about this becoming a chicken guillotine? LOL I actually read that they added a soft-close feature to prevent that, but I had a mental image of one of the girls tucked in, then slipping off the lever.
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I think I would like to order one to try, and see how this will fit their needs. Obviously, this won't be used for the fermented feed. ;-)

If it's not dangerous, though, it would be great. I have found giant roaches in my automatic feeder. I found it disgusting but if I get something to dig them out with and fling them out into the run the girls love them. It looks like roaches couldn't get into that thing.

 

[Shadrach]

errr.... after you... no, after you...
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and they're off!
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Lovely pictures.