Please bare with me if these are REALLY stupid questions and feel free to just post links if i've missed past replies
After watching my chickens again today(we only got them this past saturday) i started to wonder if i'd ever seen Ruby eating any layer pellets out of the feeder so paid more attention and decided she wasnt so i poured some into a cat bowl for her..............immediately she dug in bless her.
I have one of these
http://www.flytesofancy.co.uk/chickenhouses/info_07443.html is it quite common for them not to want to feed out of these?
I'm now deciding whether to get a trough type or one of those plastic ones like the water one.
Next........what make of layer pellets do you recommend at the moment the girls have a bag that i bought from them lady i got the chickens from, its just a white bag with nothing on whatsoever. I havent been to the proper feed shop yet, but have seen around here Dodson and Horrell and Bearts in pet shops.
One more................. do you all clean the actual coop out every week? I only have 3 chooks and i poo pick the coop every morning, diatom is sprinkled onto the bedding ( i know about the paste idea now) (do any of you still just sprinkle it in the bedding?) and it really still looks good as new, could i just top up the bedding this week, renew the nest boxes and give it a proper old clean out next week?
Ok one more lol................i give them their pellets in the morning when i let them out the at dinner time they have same treats (i save a few scraps in one of those little boxes you get blueberries in, today was banana, grapes cherios etc) then about 2.30 i throw 3 little handfulls of oats and corn. Is this ok or is it too much non pellets intkae.
Sorry to go on just thought it was best in one post