What Time of The Morning Does Your Day Start for Feeding Your Animals.

[Southernbelle]

I'm up between 6-7 to take care of the human animals. I don't need an alarm clock - I have kids

I only have chickens and rabbits, so they have free-choice feeders and 24/7 access to their runs. I only go out 1x/day to check feed and water, bring them the day's kitchen scraps and gather eggs.

 

[sundance]

DH usually gets up around 7:30, turns on the coffee pot, and opens the kennels for the dogs to go outwith him to feed the chickens and let them out of the coop.I usually get up around the same time as he is coming back in from feeding. Since the temp dropped to freezing, no one is really in a hurry to get outside, as the chickens have enough in the coop and the dogs are trained to not move until they hear one of us up. marrie

 

[ozark hen]

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My goodness, I would have said, no, you can't do that! But you are raising pigmy goats with your chickens?? and they go in and out all by themselves? no predators? then if it ain't broke .....

Do you have guard dogs? Sounds like you are doing fine they way things are right now.

 

[purr]

I get up between 5:30 and 6:00 but I don't let the chickens and ducks out till well after daylight usually 8:00 part of my grandsons chores is to help me so we have to be out there before he gets on the bus at 8:45. I collect eggs mid morning and again when I close them up for the night. Our backyard is completely fenced in so they free-range all day with access to the coop and food and water all day.

 

[tamemeg]

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My goodness, I would have said, no, you can't do that! But you are raising pigmy goats with your chickens?? and they go in and out all by themselves? no predators? then if it ain't broke .....

Do you have guard dogs? Sounds like you are doing fine they way things are right now.

Well, since they are in with the goats, I think they are the "guard dogs" LOL The one bantum hen is the only one, so far, that flys up and over the fence into the yard, but she usually goes up on the barn door....it is sooo funny watching them. Sometimes, Jack, the goat will come walking or swaying out of the barn with one of the bantums on his back....they seem to think it is the norm...LOL

 

[the1much]

im up before 5,, let my birds out after oldest goes to school and it gets light out, so around 7-7:30 ish,,, and dont change their water or feed them till 9.

 

[tfpets]

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My goodness, I would have said, no, you can't do that! But you are raising pigmy goats with your chickens?? and they go in and out all by themselves? no predators? then if it ain't broke .....

Do you have guard dogs? Sounds like you are doing fine they way things are right now.

Well, since they are in with the goats, I think they are the "guard dogs" LOL The one bantum hen is the only one, so far, that flys up and over the fence into the yard, but she usually goes up on the barn door....it is sooo funny watching them. Sometimes, Jack, the goat will come walking or swaying out of the barn with one of the bantums on his back....they seem to think it is the norm...LOL

My pets all live in the same area together also, and pygmy, pig, or llama rides for the chickens is an every day thing. They can come and go into the "barn" with the Llama, pig and goat, or the chickens do have their own coops/buildings that they retire to all in the same "pet yard" which is enlosed in a 6' hot wire fence with a locked gate. The open doors at night were not an issue until this summer when we started losing chickens one by one to a predator. First it was the little ones, then the larger ones. So we started shutting the doors. We finally trapped and killed a skunk, and have had no more losses, even when we've left a door or two open?? The animals all share their space quite peacefully, it's really fun to be out there with them!!

Oh, I get up and get the house stuff done first, then go out and take care of the pets, around 6:15, then finish getting the family out of the house and go to work!

Tina/tfpets

 

[Ugly Cowboy]

4:30 a.m. Every morn since I could walk.