Feeder question of the day

[tnchicken]

Does anyone have a good feeder design that prevents waste? The open designs are good for self feeding but tend to allow a lot of waste. Most of the commercial feeders I have seen have dividers that do not allow the rascals to "flip" the food and waste it. I just wondered if anyone has a good design they have came up with or even one they purchase that has been successful.

 

[Whitehouse Quail]

What I have done is taken a flower trough, the plastic ones that go in window boxes, and arch a piece of 2*4 inch wire over the top and secured it with wire. They can't get in, you just have to dump feed in, and it can be screwed places to make it off the ground.

Works for my polish, silikes, buff orps, barred rocks and EE's; it also raised 10 Cornish x's to a nice maturity.

 

[jaku]

I built one of these this fall. They are great! They hold about 40 pounds of food too. https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=3105616#p3105616

 

[the simple life]

I use gutters and screw them to the wall, it has worked great for me. Its deep enough that they can't scratch any out and waste it, its also cheap and easy to do.

 

[Bil]

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I made one of these for my turkeys. I didn't use a deep pan but a large tray for a flower pot. I wish I would have used a deep tray. They could make a mess of the feed.

I did like it other than that!

Bil

 

[becky3086]

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Do you have a picture of this? I am interested but need to see it.

 

[becky3086]

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This looks really good. We could do this and I think the pans were on sale at TSC, will have to check again.