Pro - Does anyone else's nest boxes get soaked in rain?

[Plum]

Any ideas ?

 

I have a feeder hung by string from the WIR, the base is 6 to 8 ins up. At night it's clean and girls are shut in their cube. In the morning it has chicken poo and bits of left over cabbage in it. There is a tiny mouse I've seen occasionally but no signs of anything bigger. I'm puzzled.

 

I know I should put food away at night but thought the hanging feeder was safe from rodents.

[sjp]

mouse ,squirrel or a 2 legged rodent winding you up

[Plum]

Just looked squirrels up and they can be nocturnal, never knew that. I'm armed with torch in conservatory waiting for the lights to go on. We've motion sensor lights down there that go on and off in the wind like crazy but the winds dropped now.

 

Hope it's not rats but would they deposit droppings on food in hanger. Think they would just eat it. Foxes eat chicken droppings so I suppose other animals would. Well the cat does yuk! and the chooks eat cat poo. What horrible animals I have!

[mullethunter]

Slugs? They can get anywhere!

[Plum]

Slugs go into the grub but to get into this one they'd have to climb 6feet, dangle along the run beams slide down a bungee and string and do the reverse journey. There are other pot feeders attached to the run sides they'd go to first. Must get a baby monitor to watch. Athletic slugs?

[Plum]

An extra this morning , a feather added along with the chicken poo cabbage stalks and easibed. I think whatever it is is burying the food not storing it.

 

Oh well time to put the food away and poo pick at night. Fascinating though it is I don't want a menagerie! I could put sand down though to look for prints ........

[Blackrocksrock]

Would still be interesting to find out what it is.

[Groovychook]

Hope you get to the bottom of this Plum, I'm intrigued to find out who your secret diner is!

[Beantree]

Sounds like a squirrel, which is just a rat with a fluffy tail. They will be athletic enough and have the spacial awareness to stash or steal food in that location.