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

[ThreeBoysChicks]

I start between 5:30 and 6:00. Most animals have feed and water all the time, but I need to check on everyone and provide clean water.

 

[LindaN]

I'm usually awakened by the sun rising. In the summer months, this means that I'm rousing at around 5:30 or 6 AM. Chicken duty is the first thing I do when I get out of bed: fill up a gallon jug with water and then off to give the chickens water refills and let them out.

In the summer months, if I want to sleep in then it's no big deal. I use an Eglu and I just leave the door to the house open, but lock up the run at night. That keeps predators from getting in at them and means they can get up as early as they want to eat (I keep the food containers filled at all times) and drink water that has been left in the run over night.

The Eglus are inside a larger fenced run, so "letting the chickens out" means opening up the door to the Eglu run so they can wander around the large run during the day.

Now that the weather is getting colder at night, I close the door to the house at night, too. I also empty the water containers at night so nothing freezes. There is no food inside the house, so if I'm not up early to let them out, they get pretty agitated. However, the sun is coming up later and later these days, so I can let them out as late as 7 AM.

With my work schedule, I usually have to let them out no later than 6:30 AM, anyway. The other day I had to be at work at 7 AM, so I was letting them out at 5 AM, a full 2 hours before sunrise. Not ideal since there still could be a racoon or such roaming around at that time, but there wasn't much control I had over the situation.

 

[lesliet]

our day starts at 5am, girls bus comes at 6am, and then feed animals and then out the door for me

 

[LynneP]

First light and animals brought in before sunset or if weather makes abrupt change for the worse...

 

[Riocotesei]

I hate mornings..not a morning person. I go to bed 1-2 in the moring and wake up at 9-9:30. My critters don't mind so we're all happy.

 

[AllChookUp]

My alarm goes off at 4:30am. I'm at work by 5:45.

At the end of this year, I'll be working from home full-time, so I'll be able to sleep in a bit more.

 

[miss_jayne]

i go by the sunrise also.

my oldest kids get on the bus at 6:30 a.m. and the youngest at 7:50 a.m., so i am usually out in the coops by then.

if i don't get out fast enough, the free range bantams come to the door. no joke. if they could figure out how to knock, i think they would!

they stand at the door and chirp. when they see me through the window they go nuts!

 

[jbowyer01]

I start here about 5:45am first the dogs, the cats, the rabbits, then the bird in the house and then the chickens (believe it or not the will not come out of the coop before 8am!) Then the DH and then I am off to work.

 

[chickbea]

My "alarm" is waking up to the crushing weight of my cat on my chest. She climbs up to mew plaintively into my face that her DISH IS EMPTY!

 

[LindaN]

chickbea, sounds like the cat has you trained very well!