Quote Originally Posted by katia View Post
as for the wasting food and chewing everything, the solution is simple. get bins with no edges for them to get their teeth around. provide chewing blocks of wood, and use food hoppers so they cannot waste the food. i am going to build some hardware cloth enclosures for the water bottles, too. other than that, there's really not much else to worry about them chewing.
i have concrete mixing tubs so i dont have a tub chewing problem. i have wheels, corn, chewing blocks, and a hide in the asf tub but they still chew up the food the most. I even have 1/8 hadware cloth that i made some hoppers for them out of. every time i clean an asf bin theres always a layer of dusted food on the bottom of the tub. i tried waiting longer between giving food but they wont eat the dusted food. They just chew everything else and lose a ton of weight.