A Bigger Tubby for Bird

Chicken food covered the floor, 

 tossed and kicked for several feet in every direction.

Oh, the problems of having a house chicken!

I decided Bird needed a second layer of defense

as he's grown larger than I had ever imagined.

He could now just step out of the tubby,

and had done so several times.

It seems he likes to take his morning and evening stroll

through the living room

or among the bar height chairs 

or around the breakfast bar into the kitchen!

Then there was the constant sweeping and vacuuming.

So, bird got a new feeding system.

It's a larger tub that I put the smaller one in.

The crumbs are still kicked and tossed but they land

in the second tubby and not all over my floor.

He also doesn't step out quite so easily!

In fact, with this he can even sit on the porch with us

and the cats don't mind at all.

It's still a challenge to give him water,

he can't manage the waterer, mostly because he

can't see it and then gets confused and swishes

his head back and forth.

So for now, I still supplement with the eye dropper.

I hatched somewhere in the neighborhood of 20 chicks

hoping I'd find a good friend for Bird, 

but he keeps stepping on them.

Maybe when they are bigger one will stand out.

 About half of these will go to my husband's employer

who needs more layers.  Once we find the girls we'll 

send them on their way.  My husband is making a larger

chicken coop/yard for the meat birds and the balance

will go there. We'll even keep another rooster on 

that side - layers on the other side with their rooster.