Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Poultry and Pets => The Hen House => Topic started by: bantam novice on June 09, 2011, 14:56
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This is just a heads up for people. Truly learning by our mistakes :ohmy:
I went down to let the girls out this morning and when I opened the feed bin (thick plastic) I found that rats had chewed a large hole in the side about five inches up from the ground and lots of pellets had spilt out :mad:
Well I had to go and get another bin for feed but this time I got a galvanised metal one. I don't think even the hardest toothed rat from the diamond tooth society of hard tooth university would be able to chew through that :tongue2:
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thats why I changed from a plastic dustbin to a metal bin to store my chickens feed in. I asked on freecycle and luckily for me a couple of people gave me their bins. Then my MIL gave me her old 2 bins so I have 1 for layers, 1 for mixed corn, 1 for chick crumb and 1 for growers/rearers :D