The chickens love their kitchen scraps, but they make a terrible mess. Like a dog with a rat, if we don’t cut it all up (or send it through the blender) they shake everything they pick up to try and make it smaller.

That’s fine, except that when half of it goes flying off across the run and they’ve eaten the bit in their mouth they seem to forget about the rest and leave it lying around. Sometimes for hours.

So we’ve bought them this new feeder, which has little bars that they need to put their heads between to get to the food. Hopefully it should stop them scattering it all around like confetti as any shaking and flinging will be contained within the feeder. It should mean we have less chance of a mouse invasion.

It’s early days, and they were a bit reluctant at first, but after some practice runs with a handful of corn in the bottom of it they’ve got over their initial trepidation.

At £8 all in, including postage, it was an eBay bargain. And brand new, too.

Barbara with the new feeder

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