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Yep, and she's my best layer....so I had to find a better option than that!

Yes, they look like little blue glasses, but the hen she was picking severly now has a nice fully feathered tail and back. I won't leave them on forever, but will leave them on for 3-4 months to hopefully change her cannibalistic behavior. .....she adjusted to the peepers very quickly, 20...

Now that's a good idea! Thank you!

I know they are using the feeder, as there is feed under the ports, but the hen with peepers on cannot seem to see the food port. I tap and tap, she looks and looks, then turns away. I am not too concerned, I am also feeding FF, so there is plenty for her to eat, and when the peepers come off...

Raised it up more, still scraping out some, but not nearly as bad as their old drop feeder!! May try to raise it even higher, I do have two larger and two smaller birds, RIR and BO, 2 EE's. The EE's are the only ones I see eating out of it. But I haven't sat and watched them for long periods of...

Thank you...

My hens are still billing feed out of the new feeder, does it need to be higher maybe?

Thank you, I did that, and one had her head in there within 30 minutes. Hope the others follow suit.

I made mine today with two ports, if I had had a hole saw or whatever you call those things that was 3" instead of 2 1/2 it would have been easier, but as it was it took me a couple of hours to get the elbows cut (hand saw), extra cut off the cut off end ( scroll saw), and holes cut in bucket...

Thanks for the suggestions...I don't have an old feeder, the fake hanging idea is good, or maybe I can find a large funnel at an auto parts store.

What do you use to keep the chickens off of the feeder?