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Squirrels eating chicken feed.

 
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If you have problems with squirrels  or other mammals eating your chicken feed, mix some gravel in with the feed.  Chickens can peck around the gravel to get at the feed, whereas the larger mouthed mammals have great difficulty eating the feed because the gravel gets in the way.
 
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