Make your own - No waste - 5 gallon (25# feed) bucket feeder for about $3

[Marylani]

Okay cool. I will go to home depot again to get PVC glue. (Love that place!)

I. Think I left enough rooms for pellets. My Chickie's are still on chick starter.

 

[henless]

Okay cool. I will go to home depot again to get PVC glue. (Love that place!)

I. Think I left enough rooms for pellets. My Chickie's are still on chick starter.

If you can, put the glue or calk on the inside of the bucket. If you put it around the pvc pipe on the outside, they chickens will pick it if they see it. I had to cut my caulk off the outside of one of my buckets. We had made the hole just a tad to big also. We caulked it and it's been fine for almost a year now.

You can see the white caulk ring around the elbow.

 

[QuiltinGramma]

• Marylani....you could also melt the bucket a little using a heat gun and melt it to the pvc piping. That has worked for some who cut their holes too big.

 

[tntchix]

Ok I am going back to my original bucket feeders. The tote feeder actually holds a whole bag of feed but too much debris is getting in. I did not have an issue with my originals so back I go.





The buckets actually take up more space in my coop but none gets wasted.

 

[pfields]

I see a bucket waterer but where's your bucket feeder picture?

 

[tntchix]

Oh dang it.

Let me find it.

 

[pfields]

I'm still having some waste problem but not as much since I lifted it higher off the ground.

We have lots of buckets. We cut the bottom out and use them on our tomato plants to protect them from the wind until they get a good start.

 

[tntchix]

Let's try this.

 

[kimc83]

I just finished up my bucket waterer with the horizontal nipples (3) and a 2 hole bucket feeder. The chicks (7weeks old) seem to do very well with it. It's nice not having to fill their food/water every day and everything is clean!

 

[tntchix]

Yes it is. I have 2 sets brooding that have their own mini versions of both feeder and waterer.