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

[Calomel]

We've been using one of these buckets for about a year now. They work great! I prefer using pellet feed in mine, and the girls like it, too.

 

[drott3]

When my chicks were little, I kept the level of the food even with the opening, so they didn't have to reach in very far at all. Now that they are bigger they can reach all the way down, if need be.

How do you ajust the amount of food in the tubs?

 

[QuiltinGramma]

Gravity....as they eat it down, more seeps into feeding "tube" that they eat from. I will also stick my hand into the area where they eat and move the pellets around which will cause more to sift into that area until I get the feeding tube fill up at least half way or more. Even though I do that, I still like it so much more than food in an open feeder.

 

[drott3]

I've got the parts to make one just havent gotten around to it yet. The elbows look so long. I got them from lowes.

 

[jetdog]

 I've got the parts to make one just havent gotten around to it yet. The elbows look so long. I got them from lowes. 

You are going to have to cut them to the proper length, if you don't they won't be able to reach the food.

 

[rainbowhatchery]

We do something similar but we use a steel pan on the bottom and just cut gravity holes in the bottom sides of the bucked and set it in the pan. Flip it upside down with a top and you can make a waterer the same way

 

[Marylani]

They'll be big enough before you know it. 

I made my feeder, but I think I made the holes in bucket too large. I feel like I should glue the elbow in there.

What glue is stage to use. I have some caulk, but hesitate to use around food item?..

Thanks!

 

[sierranomad]

pvc glue.

 

[rainbowhatchery]

I originally made my holes to small lol, but we feed pellets not crumble.

 

[palomasfarm]

We used silicon to hold our elbows in place. Maybe buy a bigger elbow if you need to.
We caulked all the joints in our coop to make it less appealing to fowl ticks, and no chickens have eaten it to my knowledge.