Wild Birds or Bust

We have had chickens for about ten years now.

Daughter raised them as a 4-H project and showed them.

They have provided us with eggs galore over the years!

Now, they are getting up there in years.

Our oldest hens are ten years old.

 

The wild birds have always been a problem!

They love to fly into the coop and eat all of the hen scratch in one fell swoop!

They can clean out a feeder faster than a speeding bullet!

 

We use to have bird netting over the coop, but I got fed up with it and tore it down!

It was not bird "friendly" at all!

I got tired of running out to untangle a bird that had gotten caught in the net.

 

Now that I have taken over the care of the chickens since daughter is all grown up and done showing them, I decided that something finally had to be done about the wild bird situation!

Seriously, we were going to go bust feeding those damn wild things!

 

So I started talking about the problem and doing some research.

I made some suggestions about what I could buy to help with the problem.

Next thing I know, hubby has built new feeders for me!

He did lots and lots of research on his own without my asking him too and came up with something that he thought might work.

 

And work it has!

The wilds still come to check out the food situation, but leave mostly empty handed now.

 

It didn't take long for the chickens to figure out the new feeders either.

They seem to like the new arrangement as much as I do!

 

 

New covered feeder that my handy, dandy hubby built!

He built two of them as we have two coops.

 

 

Happy hens enjoying their breakfast, sans wild birds!

 

 

I still toss out a bit of grain for them to scratch around at.

They clean it up quickly and the wild birds don't stand a chance now!



 

Keeping the wild birds at bay for now!