Farm Animal Conundrum

[Tarrel]

Devonian, our wood is around 7 miles from the house - around a 15 minute drive. Admittedly we do go there most days (it's now my primary activity, being in the process of decoupling from the economic system), but we set the chickens up so they could be unattended for several days.

They naturally take themselves off to the coop at night, so are mostly in when the door comes down. We have a 6kg feeder which, at 1 kg a day, gives nearly a week. The main limiting factor is water. We have two water dispensers, giving around 3 days of water at the moment. I'm thinking of modyfying one of these so it is fed by a 20 litre jerry can on a stand. The other point is egg collection, but they would still be perfectly usable if left for a few days (I wouldn't sell them in that case though).

3-4 weeks would be seriously pushing it however!