New hens not going into Eglu Go Up

[veggiemad]

Hello everyone!!

 

With my chickens getting up earlier and earlier now the mornings are getting lighter i was starting to think of leaving the cube door open for them but realised they'd have no food . I bring the standard grubs in at night to avoid rats etc but do you get the rat/mouse problem with hanging feeders that i could perhaps leave out.

 

thanks

[Plum]

Hello

 

Not yet

 

I've never taken them in but they are in cube run. The slugs get into the grub but not the hanging feeder.

[Valkyrie]

I have always taken everything in at night just to be on the safe side (we've always had meeces in the garden before the girls and recently one rat which was exterminated, so I don't want to encourage any more). Can be a bit awkward when it's raining because I try and put the feeder under my coat - and there isn't much room in there so I walk up the garden like the hunchback of Notre Dame!

[quickcluck]

I always take mine in as they get damp and clog up!

[oneyolktoanother]

yeah i always take the food in aswell

[chick wiggle]

i dont bring mine in but they are in a WIR so keep pretty dry. I covered them up on a night when we had a ratty problem though.

[beulah59]

My hanging feeders are undercover in the run, and I leave them out ... no problems so far, although we know there are rats around ...

[Redwing]

I dont bother, by the time I got them all in I would need to start putting them back out again

 

I do have lots of bait boxes about for mice and rats though

[Valkyrie]

I think you are excused - you'd never get any sleep!

[TAJ]

I have a 6kg hanging feeder on a hook in the middle of the cube run - it gets left in all the time.

 

Tracy