Sometimes, the chickens aren't the problem.

[Gazergirlstar]

mine love to come stare in the back door when their food is empty, like mom we are hungry

 

[redinator]

mine love to come stare in the back door when their food is empty, like mom we are hungry

I have a dog door, they have been studying how the dogs come and go. I'm waiting for the day they march in and demand to be fed.

 

[redinator]

Just when I thought the boys' crowing at the kitchen door was too much.

There's a pullet pecking at my bedroom window. I seriously love her to bits. If this whole chicken keeping thing goes sideways, she will be a house chicken.

 

[tlcmurphy]

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Just when I thought the boys' crowing at the kitchen door was too much.

There's a pullet pecking at my bedroom window. I seriously love her to bits. If this whole chicken keeping thing goes sideways, she will be a house chicken.

We get that at the living room window. Bedroom birds would require flight

 

[Justagalwithchicks]

I got that same feeder recently. It has helped so much with them not wasting the food. Mine must not be the smartest of chickens because they literally couldn't figure it out. I had to put peas on the openings. Then move them back to where their head goes in. Now that I'm typing this I realize maybe they are the smart ones. They got ALOT of peas from this process. Haha

 

[Mother of Chaos]

And they lived?

No home aquarium fish has ever starved to death. Fact.

When my oldest was a toddler, he was fascinated with the aquarium heater, which was controlled by a twist dial for heat settings. Showing his autism spectrum early, he fiddled with it endlessly, finally leaving it on high, resulting in floating (=dead) fish.

Busy with a new baby, I scooped and tossed the floaters and let the aquarium sit, as it got greener and murkier.

Finally, 3-4 months later, I got around to scooping it out and found a half-dozen guppies swimming around. No aerator, no food, no temp controls for 3+ months.

 

[The Moonshiner]

We had a large 75 gal. Fish tank years ago in a wooden cabinet. We asked my niece to come feed them while we were on vacation, which she did daily. It didn’t occur to us to tell an adult that there was a glass lid under the wood lid, those poor fish had to stare up at the food piled up on the glass out of reach for over a week.

When we moved, we gave the fish tank to her family. I’m assuming she’s figured it out by now…

 

[Anon112]

I didn't tighten the treadle correctly on one of my treadle feeders. So after a few days, it stopped opening the door. But the chickens knew how it worked, knew that standing on the treadle should make it open. And hilariously, I watched one of them angrily peck at the treadle feeder, like an annoyed person kicking a non-functioning vending machine.

 

[redinator]

We get that at the living room window. Bedroom birds would require flight

There's a storage shed there for yard tools . . .I might move it, depends on how bad it gets, lol. For now it's cute and entertaining

 

[redinator]

I got that same feeder recently. It has helped so much with them not wasting the food. Mine must not be the smartest of chickens because they literally couldn't figure it out. I had to put peas on the openings. Then move them back to where their head goes in. Now that I'm typing this I realize maybe they are the smart ones. They got ALOT of peas from this process. Haha

My dog plays the same game, lol.