If a group of animals approach you in the hope of a tasty treat do you make sure everyone gets one or do you just throw let a pile and them fight it out for a share?
When feeding a group of animals do you make sure they all get a share?
I actually have to deal with this every day and my wife and I argue about it a bit.
We have 5 sheep. 4 are ewe lambs and 1 is a ewe adult.
Each has a very distinct personality with one lamb being courageous and a bit assertive. She'd be my favorite except that her assertiveness with the other lambs (which is an evolutionary advantage usually) is making the others back down. Thus, the adult and this assertive lamb are hogging most of the grain they are given every day. This is concerning me because the assertive lamb is growing well (again, the evolutionary advantage here), but at the cost of the others. So, there is something of a ranking among them and that is also affecting their size.
Now, my wife says "they're just livestock" (which she uses to practice sheepherding), but, to me, they are under my care and are essentially like my children. I want them all to grow up strong and healthy. So, when I give grain, I try to do it so the shyer more fearful babies get a decent amount of grain.
separate them and ditch the grain you need different foods for adults and lambs. Replace your grain with proper sheep pellets, it'll say on the bag for what stage. Don't forget to give them your old Christmas tree, they love them.
Deer just come into our yard and graze. We don't leave food out for them. We don't feed squirrels. We feed humming birds, but there is a bully that guards the feeder. So we have a feeder on the front deck and one on the back deck. He can't guard both, so that way, the others get their share.
We have three indoor cats - two 6 month old kittens named Sterling and Pearl who are brother and sister, and a big, fluffy, marmalade orange, 7 year old boy named Poatie (POTUS). We feed Pearl in the guest bathroom, Sterling in the guest bedroom, and Poatie in our master bedroom. They are trained now and know where to go. But if we don't do that, the kittens will try to rob each other's and Poatie's bowls.
When we go to a place that has geese or ducks, I try to make sure they all get a share of the snacks.
No. For example, I like to feed the squirrels in the bird feeder and you know who shows up? The stoopid birds. Like, they can fly off anywhere and get food while my poor squirrels have to trudge through a gazillion feet of snow. I put up the "squirrels only" sign but they keep ignoring it so now I chicken wired in the whole thing and now the stoopid birds can't get in and steal all the seeds.
Okay- My father was a POW during WW2. He knew what hunger was like. This affected him for the rest of his life. I can remember him shooting squirrels out the bathroom window, He would pick off 3 or 4 of them and go to his mothers house and she would skin them and fry them up/ They were not as tasty as you would think.
The only groups I get are racoons and for them I just take a Frisby and fill it with some cheap dog food, set out for them. They are on their own from there.
I try to share around but i don’t try too hard. That “everything must be equal” nonsense is uniquely human and far and away among our dumbest characteristics. The law of the wild is competition. It’s never “fair”, it’s often fierce, and there is always a loser. We’re not doing ourselves or any other species any favors by protecting the weak, the stoopid, the diseased and the dysfunctional. We’re literally just muddying the gene pool and guaranteeing future generations more strife than is necessary. “Only the strong survive” is an antiquated concept now, and it will be our undoing. We’ve gone dangerously far in the opposite direction.
Not to the detriment of the tribe, let alone the species. It’s one thing to care for the young until they can care for themselves. It’s another to raise the feeble minded to adulthood and encourage them to breed. It’s another thing to give “reproductive rights” to people who abuse, neglect and even murder their own children. I defy you to produce evidence of such things persisting “in nature”. You can’t because any animals that would do such things will go extinct if they haven’t already.
HAH!! Looks like the one doe there has learned the Japanese children's prank... Kancho!!
In any case, depends on the animals and their level of calm... geese, chickens, birds in general to be fair... hell no. The squirrels in the yard have pecans in back and an acorn dropping oak in front and of course the cats come to "see" the squirrels while the jays guard their nests. Window cinema "free for all". I'll intentionally feed any opossums a little as they're beneficial neighbors, so... for the most part no, but on occasion I do.
I used to feed the ducks by the canal they would come over to me and I would feed them bread. I would make sure every single one of them got there fair share, I lived on the cul-de-sac by a nice canal and they would actually walk far over onto my property once in a while and I would feed them
Yes, this is when I'm feeding my cats. My cat Angel screams, yells, and sulks for hours if she doesn't get as much food as she wants. I make damn sure they all get as much food as they need and want.
Yeah I give them equal meals just like I treat babies to adult humans I care for animals have feelings too. it's not fun separating angry animals ripping each other apart 😁.
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