This is why you should cover your feed!

[ChickenLeg]

They often carry worms so if chickens eat them be sure youre up to date on your dewormer

 

[Cyprus]

I did not feed these mice to my chickens. We are poisoning the mice and by the color of their feces, I can tell that they've been munching on some poison.

 

[arrowti]

We keep our feed in aluminum cans with lids. They work great - occasionally I'll get an earwig or spider in there and I'll just scoop them out for the chickens to munch.

 

[Folly's place]

I had MICE not so long ago, and resorted to poison bait in bait stations too. Not fun, but necessary!
Mary

 

[Cyprus]

We keep our feed in aluminum cans with lids. They work great - occasionally I'll get an earwig or spider in there and I'll just scoop them out for the chickens to munch.

We switched to aluminum cans after we had something chew through a plastic one.

 

[MissChick@dee]

Okay I might get blow back on this post. But I live trap my mice and take them to the cemetery.
Because.... we have a resident red tail who nests every spring in the big old trees.
And I’d hope they make lots of mouse babies so her babies won’t grocery shop in my yard.
Truly though we have very few mice.

 

[Cyprus]

Okay I might get blow back on this post. But I live trap my mice and take them to the cemetery.
Because.... we have a resident red tail who nests every spring in the big old trees.
And I’d hope they make lots of mouse babies so her babies won’t grocery shop in my yard.
Truly though we have very few mice.

We have an infestation and everything comes to my yard around here at some point anyway. I live in enough country that dumping them somewhere else just makes them someone else's problem.
But I understand totally. I relocate groundhogs to places that have things big enough to eat them

 

[MissChick@dee]

Perhaps it’s more like an offering to the hawk goddess

And the people in the cemetery don’t seem to mind.

 

[fldiver97]

Metal bins with lid is all I ever use for feed. Keeps feed dry, rodents can’t chew threw and no surprise visitors!!!!

 

[Kiki]