Great feeder with some flaws
Pros: Holds lots of food, handle for walking with, easy to fill
Cons: heavy, lots of space taken
over all good and easy to have and use
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Works well for pellets
Pros: Design always keeps the tray full
Cons: Falls down
Another review noted this feeder might not work with mash, but it does work well with pellets. The only downside is the the chickens can spin it around and the wing nut comes loose. I find it on the ground from time to time, especially when it's empty. However, the feed always refills the tray because there is a cone inside that sends the pellets down. Metal feeders don't have that feature.
Does not work for me
Pros: good price, less waste, sturdy
Cons: feed gets stuck
This thing looks great and seems like it should work but for some reason the feed (which is finely ground grains) does not come out. It gets clogged and the chickens eat the food and it never refills. I would still recommend this though just because everyone else seems to like this and it is probably just the feed that is causing these problems. It keeps clumping together.
No Appreciable Waste
Pros: No waste, hanging
Cons: No cons for me
I use this in my coop. I have it hanging so the girls can't jump on top. I see no waste from this but I do keep it relatively high. It is adjustable for how much feed you want it to fill with. That will allow you also to adjust if for if you are using small pellets or crumble. I have 6 chickens and this is the only feeder I currently use. This does the job I want a feeder to do.
Very Little Waste!
Pros: Great for chicks, less food spilled
Cons: None
Only feeder I have that helps reduce waste. Really love it. Wish it came in mega size!
Reduced waste
Pros: stops waste, reduces billing out, works well
Cons: warped
I got this on ebay for 19.95 with free shipping. Compared to the homemade feeder I had made with a 10 lb. coffee can and a pan lid, this has considerably reduced waste due to billing out. I think it is mainly the curled under lip, but the "vanes" probably help, too. You can adjust the gap between the bottom of the feeder and the tube, so essentially you can adjust the flow. My unit is warped (i.e., the bottom dish wouldn't sit flat if you put it on level ground), but this doesn't seem to have any major effect on its usefulness. When I have since looked at the same feeder in feed stores, it seemed that most units suffer the same problem. I didn't buy the top/cover as I was ordering...
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Good feeder
Pros: Convenient, Easy to use
This feeder is the only chicken I have. The other feeder I use is a cat/dog automatic feeder type thing. If the chickens are out and about they do not use the feeder at all, unless it is sitting on the ground, then they just scratch the food and then it may be wasted by the rain and droppings. If they are in their little fence area and do not have the option of roaming, they will eat all of it in two or three days. I have 9 hens, and they pretty much eat all day long!
Good size for smaller flocks
Pros: size - big enough for group but small enough for smaller coop if needed, has a decent lid!
Cons: getting spring adjusted "just right" for feed flow takes some getting used to
Tried some other feeders to feed multiple birds - like this one the best for the size of feed ( I didn't need to put 20 lbs of feed out for small groups of chickens). It has a lid you can get (rare enough) and the lid is fairly close fitting and does a better job of keeping things out of the feed storage and keeping chickens from perching on it. The trough is a more rigid plastic which seems to keep the balance better and not prone to tipping when you have it close to the ground for smaller birds to eat out of. Will be getting more of these.
heavy but good
Pros: holds LOTS of food, easy to use
Cons: heavy, takes up lots of space
It works well but gets heavy to use. I don't have a big chicken farm but I do have 8 now and not ally pf coop room but it works well.
Nice feeder
Pros: Holds 11lbs feed, hangs
Cons: Chickens will bale lot's of food out!
Works well, my chickens love to bale out of it though, you can unscrew it to dump dust out. Will work for laying flocks (I have 8 who use the 10lbs one)
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