Show me your PVC feeders

[Avonlea22]

I'm trying to decide if I want to make a gravity fed PVC feeder...the type that uses like 4" PVC that you fill at the top and the chickens eat out of a wye.

I'd like to know why you built yours the way you did, what you'd do differently, etc.


Thanks!

 

[cjexotic]

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I have those feeders and love them.. even my chicks can eat out of them with a step in front.
It works in a small corner area and easy to maintain.
I would do nothing differently accept maybe make them taller. But not even sure of that.

 

[Avonlea22]

Do you find that food collects at the bottom and gets stale?

 

[torbaynewfs]

I love the idea, but also wonder about the food that stays at the bottom.



Voted for tree 35! it is AWSOME!!!!

 

[70monte]

I made two of the ones like cjexotic has out of 3" pvc and while I like them, my chickens would bill the food out and empty the feeders. I was using the laying pellets in these. I ended up buying a couple of the plastic hanging feeders with splines in the bowl part from TSC but they make a mess with these also. I raised these a little higher today so maybe they won't get as much of the food out. I use crumbles in these.

Do a search for pvc feeders and you will get a lot of ideas.

Wayne