What is Your Daily Feeding Routine?

[Three Stents]

The reason for this question is in regards to when we have someone come over and feed the 4 girls. I have a treadle feeder and they are not using it, no biggie. I'm feeding them twice a day, because I do not have a chicken feeder. Looks like I need to get one, where all 4 girls can eat at the same time. Lucky me. money is not an issue. I don't mind feeding them twice a day, just want to make it easier on the chicken sitter....What say you? Please stay on topic..please.

 

[Bsmac]

I feed our birds their Crumbles as wet mash once in the am and once in the late pm. I also have a 5 gallon pail feeder with four ports free choice all day! Works well! I should add we have a predator proof, dry covered run. No feed left over. I bring in the hanging 5 gallon pail feeder every night.

 

[BlindLemonChicken]

I do breakfast and dinner—I don’t keep feed out all day because it attracts pests. But my birds range all day. If yours are in a run it might be easiest for the chicken-sitter if you get a gravity feeder that can just be filled once a day and taken in at night if it’s not empty.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

We have two five-gallon buckets with feeding ports. In the morning when he opens up the chickens, DH carries those out of the well house and puts them out in the chickens' large run, a little distance away from each other. At night when he locks up the coop he puts the feeders back in the well house. In addition to that, we have a large black rubber trash barrel that stays in the hen house, that also contains feed. With this arrangement, a chicken can eat at one or another of these feeders without being bullied. It's a simple arrangement and if a chicken sitter has to do it, it's pretty simple and straightforward. We don't seem to have a problem with mice or rats.

 

[rosemarythyme]

Specifically when we're not around we leave out two 7 lb gravity feeders (1 in coop, 1 in run under cover) with dry feed.

Otherwise normally I don't leave food out overnight and bring out both dry and fermented feed in the morning to minimize attracting pests.