They're wasting 40 lbs of food!!!

[hooligan]

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You can hang any feeder with the use of shoe strings LoL What type do you have now>?

 

[cjeanean]

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that's okay, you're no where near as bad as my 16 yr old sister....she thought telephone poles grow in the ground....SERIOUSLY, she did....and she's not mentally handicapped (according to the doctors)

 

[hooligan]

 

[cjeanean]

I know, it doesn't seem possible (this is really off topic from my original question, but I love talking about the blondeness of my sister) but she had it all figured out how the electrical lines keep the leaves and branches from growing, and they spray the telephone pole trees down with something to keep them growing....She also thought we made our own front door and back door in our back yard (at a duplex in the middle of the city) with a fire pit, hammer, and anvil....she figured it out eventually, after we started laughing when she asked us where we got the metal....

 

[SoccerMomof7]

I have the long metal shallow feeder....my sister is true blonde too. The day I went to get my chicks I told her I needed her to babysit before my DH changed his mind, and all she could say is why would he let me eat chicken, when I finally got it through to her I was buying baby chicks che asked me why I wanted to eat them.

 

[cjeanean]

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OMG that's exactly what my sister would say!!!!!! LOL!!!! Even my hubby agrees with that one!!!!

 

[hooligan]

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Thats what I have for the three chicks in the 'brooder' and I have shoestrings looped thru the last holes and they are tied to the top of the cage, now I just have pine shavings scattered instead of food LoL

I just took this picture, it may not be fancy but it works:

 

[SoccerMomof7]

Mine doesn't have a top like that just a bar in the middle. My sister is 17 so maybe it's something with the age?!

 

[plfreitag]

You can also build a little platform that brings the feeder up to shoulder height for the birds and put a thin ridge around it with a strip of furring so they don't dump it over. Then you put the feeder in there and they can get to the food but can't thrash it all over. We have the smallest hanging feeder in our coop and I just fill it halfway up and we waste hardly any food at all. Besides, my girls like to eat off the floor too, so they'll eat what falls.

Trisha in MO

 

[GwenFarms]

Just be glad your not feeding guinea keets. I have yet found a way to keep them from wasting food. They are nuts!! I have six keats in one small brooder that I have seperate from the others and I fill a mason jar feeder in the morning and it will be empty by noon. The whole floor of their brooder is covered in feed. They do the same no matter how I've fed them. The larger brooder is just as bad, I just haven't measured the loss because of the flat feeders. It drives me crazy!