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chickie-birdies · 3 months ago

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Recently bought the chickens a rat-proof feeder because the world's biggest pack of rats has moved in and I've had enough. Training the chickens to use it is going well, if slowly. (It would be a lot faster if I still lived with my chickens, or at least lived closer than 30 minutes away... 😅 I can't be there all the time to work with them.)

Midnight, however, refuses to engage with the thing and instead stands next to it looking cranky while she watches the young'uns eat.

#unfortunately the seller forgot to send me the part that makes the door close softly 🙄 he'll send it soon tho #it would definitely be easier to teach the chickens that this contraption is safe if it didn't slam closed #it would probably also be easier if they'd ever eaten out of a feeder of any sort ever in their lives 😅#midnight has been eating off the ground for 11 years and doesn't seem keen to eat out of some newfangled noisy tin can #but hopefully it'll get easier #if the chickens get hungry enough they'll eat out of anything i figure #anyway the star of these training sessions is definitely tofu. she's very shy so i didn't expect her to try it so quick but #apparently she'll do anything for bread scraps!#midnight #tofu #crow #oh yeah more quick notes #the front panel on the feeder is open in these photos bc i was still in the process of adjusting the spring tension #also I've since rearranged the bricks so it's easier for the chickens to stand in front of it #i reeeeally hope this works bc. you guys. the rats are SO bad #i was at the end of my rope i was seriously almost ready to simply get rid of all the chickens i was so stressed #things haven't been easy for me regarding all my animals i had to leave behind when i moved. i miss them every day #I'm also so not used to living in a house without a single animal. I've always had pets around til now #i want a cat but I'm holding out hope that i can convince my parents to give me MY cat. my dad refused to let me take her #and I'm worried about her. she needs more specialized care and she will never receive it in that house #sigh anyway. i have a lot on my mind

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