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Thanks GreenLove. I planned it out myself (in Google SketchUp), with significant inspiration from other coops I found on BYC. I'm happy to send you the SketchUp file, although to be honest, I'd do a few things differently if I built it again.

Thanks for the question, sorry it took so long to respond. Yes, I did raise all my chicks last year with this style feeder, but you're right, it could use some adjusting. I found that if I pressed the HC in about 1/2" at each hole the feeders worked really well. After working on feeders for...

It's pretty much just another gravity feeder, but I haven't seen one exactly like it so I thought I'd share. It has 3 simple parts that sandwich together, no fasteners. The feed stores in the 20 gal galvanized garbage can and funnels out the bottom. The cut down 5 gal bucket acts as a spacer...

Thanks all, one full week with this modified feeder and not one food pile on the floor yet. I'll have another batch (15 brahmas) this week so I'll repost if there are and issues with newly hatched chicks.

I suspect I'm not the first chicken newbie to look at the stacks of the small jar-top gravity chick feeders at the animal supply store and say, "well, those must work pretty well since they're the only small feeder option." After my first 10 chicks went through several quarts of food in the...