My 5 minute Homemade Chicken Feeder

My 5 minute Homemade Chicken Feeder

Made from recycled and re-purposed items

If you have looked at the other BYC pages or my blog, you will see that I am big into reusing stuff I have around the house or garage or anything I can recycle whenever it is practical.  This is my chicken feeder that took less than five minutes to throw together. 

Items used:

• Empty White Distilled Vinegar Jug - 1 gallon size
• Round take out food container/ bottom half (from a big salad at costco my mother had) About two inches deep.
• Knife
• Discarded chain for hanging a retro light fixture/ Chandelier
• Drill with bits
  
• Wire cutters or pliers to pull apart links in chain
  
• 3 screws with matching sized bolts to hold jug and dish together
  

Steps:

• 1. Cut 3 small 1 inch sized holes in the bottom of the jug for the feed to spill out of into the dish.
• 2. Cut the top off the jug.
• 3. Drill through the base dish into the bottom of the jug in 3 places.
• 4. Reach inside the jug and add screws through the pre-drilled holes.
• 5. Secure screws with bolts
• 6. Cut or drill holes in the top portion of the jug to feed the chain through.  I used 4 lengths, but 3 could work also.
  
• 7. Cut lengths of chain to create a hanger and reconnect together through the holes in the top of the jug.
• 8. Fill and hang in coop.

Costs: No items were purchased for this project. 

What I would change: *This incorporated the change.  It is my second one of this type and the previous one had a frisbee for the base. I like this one better because the base is deeper on the take out dish and closer to the jug making it harder for the chickens to bill the feed out.