What do you do for food? At night?

[jreardon1918]

Usually a couple cookies and a cold glass of milk.

For the chickens? Nothing. The food and water is out in the run.

 

[jreardon1918]

I should say the food hangs from the roof. I have not seen any evidence of mice out other pests in the run or coop.

 

[igorsMistress]

I use a gravity feeder made from pvc. Cap it at night, but there's food and water in the coop always. We had a rat but it was interested in the eggs more than feed.

 

[centrarchid]

For fun I have had a light running all night that attracts night-flying insects. Chicks in particular will stay up much of the night catching the bounty. I am slowly trying to find what light colors work better here. It is becoming clear that best on one night may not be best on another. Also insects have preferences.

 

[rosemarythyme]

At night I take my feeder out of the coop and put it in a metal trashcan. This encourages them to pick up any scratched out bits in the morning as well as protects the feed from any rodent interest. Don't currently have a rodent problem, and don't want to start having one again.

Obviously if I was on vacation (what's that?) I would just leave the feeder in.