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| I had to move the food tube away from the back of the cage to keep from feeding the squirrels! |
A couple photos of the run. I noticed that the chickens were devouring the food. I had recently changed from the
Layena Crumbles to the Layena Pellets. At first, I thought the chickens were eating the larger food pellets at the same rate they were eating the smaller crumbles. But one afternoon I was watching the chickens from inside the house and noticed the neighbor hood squirrel was grabbing the food through the fencing! The chickens weren't gorging themselves, the squirrel was stealing the pellets! Needless to say, I now have start paying attention to how I was placing the food tube against the back of the fencing.
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| Evidence of the chickens escape attempt by digging a tunnel under the coop! ;) |
Another note about the chicken run is the bottom of the run. When I built the run, I placed stapled wire fencing along the bottom of the frame and under all the rock.
Click here to see the buried fencing. After reading about several people who did the same kind of thing to keep predators from digging under the coop IN the run. I noticed today, that the chickens were actually digging inside the coop! I never thought the wire fencing would be used to keeping the chickens from digging OUT of the coop! ;)
