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[pennyJo1960]

Think many of us do do not bother compost clipping let the birds do it
Goodnight all

 

[Perris]

They say food is getting thrown away because restaurants are closed.
Umm, those people are still eating, they didn't disappear. You can't dump quadzillions of pounds of dairy, meat and fresh produce and say no biggie just cause restaurants closed. The people that ate that didn't just cease to exist. Eating at home now.

yes, though don't forget that some people are eating less, typically those who can't store food or can't afford the higher prices.

 

[microchick]

@penny1960 I've tried that kind of feeder and the little delinquents will dig the feed out of it. I've watched them scoop with their beaks and scratch over the holes with their feet and out comes the pellets. The feeder I'm using right now is similar to this one:

We shall see how it is received.

 

[cmom]

@cmom, I can't remember if I said hi to you or not so .

I'm having to revamp my chicken feeders. My feather heads are wasting way too much food. I'm trying my old bucket feeder again with the pvc elbow in it to see how that goes over. I've had a tray sitting under their hanging feeder to see how long it took to fill it up and today there was at least two gallons of feed in it. I spent an hour sifting out coop crud getting it as clean as I could. I keep telling them that their food doesn't grow on trees....They just cluck at me, or crow.....the little ingrates.

I use hanging feeders. I do have a couple that have higher sides on the pans. Most of the birds I don't have any problem with but there are some that if they can they will spill out the feed and I use pellets. With the higher sided pans I haven't had the problem. In the first picture one on the far side of the coop is a feeder with the higher sided pan. Another one like in in the lower picture only a little taller.

 

[microchick]

That is probably the problem with my feeder, @cmom. The sides are only about an inch or so.

I'm going to have to look and see if I can get a feeder pan with higher sides for it or look for a new feeder.

 

[cmom]

Think many of us do do not bother compost clipping let the birds do it
Goodnight all

I give the birds grass clippings but some go into our compost too. We also have a yard vac that picks up most everything, grass clippings, leaves, smaller sticks that it kind of mulches up and that stuff will go into the compost.

 

[cmom]

The base of the feeders are pretty much the same size. I have some smaller feeders but the pans will work on them too.

 

[Bunnylady]

Right send it to stores or food banks!

Sometimes it's not that simple. I saw a news story a couple of weeks ago about a chicken farmer who has pretty much been put out of business by the coronavirus shutdowns. He was a contract farmer for a big egg company. The eggs his birds produced were sent to a plant that turned them into liquid egg product that was sold to cafeterias and that sort of thing. With all of the school closings, etc, sale of that product has plummeted. Apparently, for the company, redirecting the eggs to get them put into little Styrofoam containers for retail sale wasn't economically feasible; they decided to simply shut down the whole production system, so they sent a clean-out crew to his farm and killed all the birds.

I'm not sure a food bank could unload industrial quantities of liquid eggs.

 

[ronott1]

Sometimes it's not that simple. I saw a news story a couple of weeks ago about a chicken farmer who has pretty much been put out of business by the coronavirus shutdowns. He was a contract farmer for a big egg company. The eggs his birds produced were sent to a plant that turned them into liquid egg product that was sold to cafeterias and that sort of thing. With all of the school closings, etc, sale of that product has plummeted. Apparently, for the company, redirecting the eggs to get them put into little Styrofoam containers for retail sale wasn't economically feasible; they decided to simply shut down the whole production system, so they sent a clean-out crew to his farm and killed all the birds.

I'm not sure a food bank could unload industrial quantities of liquid eggs.

that is terrible!

And they did not use the birds as food either?

 

[pennyJo1960]

Yes heard of that even here how stupid of the company even the owners
could only shake their heads ...
Good morning all sitting with my second cup first day in short pants here