11 March, 2007

New chicken feeder


This is our new chicken feeder.


The chickens had to learn to peck the yellow bar. When they peck the yellow bar, food falls to the ground. I thought that the chickens would find it difficult to learn how to do this, but they managed to learn within a week. I made sure that they had something really tasty inside to encourage them to peck. They enjoy having wheat, maize, mixed seeds and nuts.

There is now no waste, which means that we don't get rats. The chickens also have an automatic water trough, which makes keeping chickens very easy. When we go on holiday, someone only needs to check them once a week. Our neighbours are very friendly and love coming round more often.



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