Chicken bald back

[PixieDust]

Sorry for another topic.

 

I have noticed my hybrids are getting through much more feed. Now I guess it is Spring even though they have been laying since December, but their food pot is empty by lunchtime. I have some of the Mini trugs from Omlet and I give them 2 trugfuls of pellets a day. Is that enough? Too much or too little?

 

Sorry sound like a nookie but this is my first Spring.

[mullethunter]

Mine were doing the same until I bought cheap pellets that they clearly don't think are up to par!

 

I think it's probably because they're awake for longer

[Mars]

I give them pellets and oyster shell available all the time, hens will eat more in spring and summer due to longer days and they are laying, the brown hybrids eat more than other breeds. be sure nothing else is eating their pellets

[Chickabee]

Mine are eating loads. You need to just let them have a constant supply

[Luvachicken]

Mine have been little piggies recently, ever since I started making them the pellet porridge

But they definitely eat more in the Spring and Summer.

[Egluntyne]

Are you certain that you haven't got unwanted visitors who are helping themselves? (Rats).

[PixieDust]

I have had a good search and there is no evidence that I can find of rats. The food and water are taken in every night. I will keep a good eye on it. Thanks.

[Chickabee]

The sparrows and robins are eating mine, but I don't mind

[Valkyrie]

Yep, robins and blackbirds here - all forming an orderly queue. If it's pellets the girls don't like - well harder where there's none as the wild birds aren't as fussy!

Biggest gannet here is the orpington - and partly to try and stop the wild birds eating if she can hoover the pellets up before they do.