I use a 5 gallon bucket with the poultry water cups. The trick I picked up last year was to fill gallon milk jugs with water and freeze them. I add one to the waterer each morning and it acts as a giant ice cube to keep the water nice and cool. :thumbsup
People forget chickens are not herbivours. 🤭 We hang deer carcasses after butchering for the chickens to eat. They go nuts! Its crazy how fast they will have it cleaned down to the bone!
Things I dont feed my chickens? More like things my chickens refuse to eat, and thats a short list.
Lettuce (really?)
Beans
Worms that I personally found and harvested for them (apparently worms are only acceptable if THEY find them)
Thats pretty much it. They get ALL the kitchen scraps and...
I have a german shorthair pointer who has never touched a chicken. These are the safest chickens on the country block! Thanks to him, we have full time pest control on site 24/7. He actively pheasant and rabbit hunts with my husband but has always been respectful of our birds. We introduced him...