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Here is ours. It's gravity fed from a 5 gallon bucket, PVC to standard drip irrigation, which I found a lot easier to work with the threaded nipples.



 
I love your ideas!! And how nice your chicken yard looks - I want to improve mine this year (I built a larger coop with storage last year and have to put the finishing touches on it this year too)
Thanks for sharing the pics!
 
kllyjansen said:
You can see mine in the background... large white PVC pipe. I only have 3 chickens. If I wanted to I could put about a third of a sack of feed in it. What I like is that with the rain hat it stays pretty darn dry and if I am going out of town I can fill it up and not worry as to whether or not they will run out of feed. It also stays pretty tidy and I never see food on the ground around it. What I don't like is that the 'bowl' at the bottom is too deep. New food falls on top of older feed and the old feed down below gets packed down, old, and moldy. It's not a lot of food and fortunately the bottom screws off easy enough so it's a fairly easy fix, but I've been meaning to modify it to make it even less of a problem. I'm also hoping this is less of a problem when I switch off starter feed and move to pellets.




I used roughly these plans: http://forum.backyardpoultry.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=8020381 Added a bend at the top so it could be filled from outside the run if I wanted.
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Our feeders are homemade pvc pipes like these in the background. The crumble food seems to get stuck in it and doesn't keep the bottom full all the time. Does anyone else have this issue? We have to 'bang' on the sides to get it down. We have the top capped, no extra treats in it, just crumble grower food.
 
If it's a plastic waterer, you can add apple cider vinegar to cut down on algae and bacteria growth. I just clean mine out all the time (especially in summer - daily)
 
mclanea:
2% (So for one gallon, add 2.5 ounces) Only add to plastic waterers (the metal ones will have a reaction to the acid in the vinegar). And use unpastuerized apple cider vinegar.

I have to say, in my larger waterer (5 gallon bucket with the horizontal nipples), the water doesn't really turn green or slimy so I haven't been adding any ACV to this one.
 
NY Chicky said:
mclanea:
2% (So for one gallon, add 2.5 ounces) Only add to plastic waterers (the metal ones will have a reaction to the acid in the vinegar). And use unpastuerized apple cider vinegar.

I have to say, in my larger waterer (5 gallon bucket with the horizontal nipples), the water doesn't really turn green or slimy so I haven't been adding any ACV to this one.
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Thanks. We'll keep an eye on it.
 
It should be noted that ACV effect on algae and what not in the water is because it lowers the PH, but the final PH is dependent upon the initial PH of the water...

It's effect will vary based on the initial water's PH, for every time I have tried it, promoted a clear slime coating inside the container so I no longer use it...
 
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It's nothing fancy took a large Folgers container cut the bottom out and a small and put some marbles around the bottom of it to help with the mess drilled small holes in the rim of the bottom of the small one. All about the K.I.S.S
 

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