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a home made chicken feeder I can trust

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Hi,
I might be going out of town for 3 days at thanksgiving.
Do you know of the simplest automatic chicken feeder
to feed them while I'm gone. I really need a way to feed
them for a simple 3 days.

Thank for reading
 
I have 7 pullets. I can leave them for 4 or 5 days at a time.

I have a bird feeder that holds 5 lbs - i modified it by making the openings a little larger so the layer pellets can come out easily.
I fill this up and then put another 2- 3 lbs in a dish in their pen.
Sometimes I will leave baby watermelons or pumkins so they will peck at that if they are bored and not eat all their food up.
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Then I set up my 5 gallon waterer that I made out of a plastic tub and 5 gallon paint bucket.

This has worked very well and we travel ALOT!!
 
Check out Omrans homemade feeder under building coops and construction He used a 5 gallon white bucket that he cut I am going to try them as well.
its under coop designs and construction homade feeder cost $00.00
 
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Hubby made me two feeders out of 5 gal. buckets with lids, that what we use when we have to be gone for the weekends and we know they won't be out of feed...We just placed 3 cut out holes around the bucket 2 or 3 inches from the bottom, fill the buckets to the brim, add the lid and it gradually flows down into a bigger metal pan I got at TSC or any feed store. Just adjust your bucket to the size pan you can get.
 
I made this one from 4" PVC pipe.

Its about 4 ft tall and will hold 20 lbs. of pellets. If you need more capacity, simply increase the length of the vertical pipe.

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Go to the learning center at the top of every page and check out the how to section and look up feeding. I made a wood one as seen in the photos that holds 25 lbs of feed. I only have to feed once a week. I had to set it on 2 bricks to keep the wood chips out of the feed trough.
 

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