Eggshell Feeder

I caught Mina in the dog house the other day. 😂

I also caught our garlic coming up! 

Since Jaron and I were outside, I decided to do a little shed maintenance. Those pesky mineral feeders kept getting knocked down by the goats as they turn around to eat out of the end of the feeder. 🙄 One even cracked along the back where it hangs on the wall. I swapped the cracked one for the cat feeder. The cats won't mind a cracked feeder. 

I moved the mineral feeders to the back area away from the food. We have two varieties of mineral, mostly to test which the goats like more. The feeder on the right is the winner! DuMOR is the favorite. 

Next shed update was to make an egg shell feeder for the chickens. They need oyster shell or egg shells to give them calcium to keep their shells thick and hard. Whenever we put shells in the compost, the chickens eat them up right away, so they're definitely craving more calcium. I've been saving shells for a while, so I crunched them into smaller pieces and filled a juice bottle with them. 

The Internet provided the idea for a gravity fed feeder. Two boards, a tuna can, and a couple of screws are all you need. 

And a bottle and a couple zip ties too I suppose. 

They were easy enough to throw together, I made two more. One for kelp (provides iodine) and one for grit. They get enough grit free range from pecking at our driveway, but in the winter it'd be nice to supplement. 

Here they are hanging in the shed! 

I wonder how quickly the chickens will discover them.