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If your hens are like mine, they love to beak out their feed on the ground. Which is messy, wasteful, and if your ground gets wet and your feed gets wet, can make your hens sick. So it's important to keep the feed areas for your hens tidy.
I picked up these large, plastic saucers from my local hardware store and set the feeders inside of the saucer up on a block. It doesn't prevent them from beaking out their feed, but it does keep it from landing on the ground.
Some of my hens will even eat it out of the saucer. Or you can easily pour it back into the feeder.
That is a good idea. I have always used the covered patio area as the feeding station so it wasn't really a problem before and with bantams I found a good deep china dish half filled stopped them scratching or beaking it out like the big girls used to do. Then came the three amigos who are too timid to go to the patio and I needed a feeding station in the run. Pellets in the dirt was becoming a problem. I have now bought a china dog dish which is small in diameter but deep and set it on a roof tile. Again I only half fill it and only a little is getting flicked out on to the tile so it working okay. We have to find solutions to the problems as they arise and yours is a really good idea for your bigger girls.
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