How small or big is your coop and run?Even though they are confined to a closed run and coop?
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How small or big is your coop and run?Even though they are confined to a closed run and coop?
The they have plenty of room to keep themselves busy...I wouldn't worry a bit.it is gigantic, run over a hundred feet long about 6-8 feet wide, coop proportionate to run for 8 chickens.
Do you have deep bedding in there?thanks, I was curious to hear peoples experience with this method of rodent control. Everything was pretty good until I tried to leave the hanging feeder available in the run. The entire run is covered in 1/4 " hardware cloth top bottom and two feet around the perimeter underground and they still got in. I can not find a hole anywhere big enough for them to breach. I guess where there's a will there will be a way. At least it's only mice at this point and not rats or worse.
It doesn't matter when you feed them. I feed mine after work 5-6 pm.
I guess where there's a will there will be a way. At least it's only mice at this point and not rats or worse.
Thankfully the local mice stay out of my run but I used to get rats coming after the feed, and they're so much more clever and hard to trap.
Did you have food out or food in the soil that the chickens scattered out of the feeder?
How does that work? If I were to try and do that, half the year they'd already be on the roost by the time they were fed.
Lights in the barn. Plus its never totally dark here at 5 pm. They are sometimes roosting but not asleep yet.