Al,
I have your treadle feeder and it is the one I am primarily referring to. I also have the one with the green door and inherently both have the same problem for the same basic overall design reasons but the green door version has a different scheme for the counterweight to the pedal. The...
There is a sort of new rash of chicken feeders that works by a feed box being locked up until a chicken jumps on a pedal to unlock it. I've heard many labels but Treadle Feeders seems to be the most commonly used to describe them.
They work simply by weight which the chicken supplies by...
I started raising chickens in Central Oregon about almost 10 years ago. Bend is dry so I never saw pests or raiders due to the scarcity of them finding food in the wild so they were thin in numbers. I also, after trying free ranging the chickens, that neighbors dogs was the worst I experienced...